PC-Controlled Flexible Production of Brickwork

The pre-fabrication of ready-made building elements – in particular of brick wall –has been practised successfully in the Federal Republic of Germany for some 20 years. The rapidly increasing demand for building material requires the decision from the manufacturers either to increase their manufacturing capacities or to build new plants. This paper presents a new development of a pre-fab-plant of Messrs. Anliker, which is a solution entirely based on computer- aided manufacturing. The individual components of the hardware and software used are part of a modular conception which makes it possible to refit existing plants or to build up new ones in future.