Digitalization in paint systems makes businesses successful

Sehon Paint Finishing Systems: Maximum Performance

Anyone investing in paint finishing systems needs a powerful and experienced manufacturer with perfect products. With its motto “Individuality instead of Standard,” Sehon is now one of the leading companies in the industry.

Tiemo Sehon sums up his company’s success: “Paint shops looking for new construction, conversion, retrofit, or modernization need a tailor-made, comprehensive package from a single source. Customers like to buy from Sehon because they can benefit from a unique, all-round carefree package with us.”

Consulting

With over 40 years of experience, Sehon is one of the most renowned and experienced manufacturers of paint finishing systems.

Long before the actual purchase of a paint finishing system, paint shops require answers to questions concerning management, standards and regulations, financing, funding, building planning, energy saving, sustainability, workflows, safety, and after-sales service.

“We support our customers in every project phase and for as long as they operate our systems,” explains Tiemo Sehon. “So we’re not talking about days, weeks, or months here, but many years of cooperation.”

Transparency

At Sehon, great importance is placed on transparency, figures, data, and facts. Even before their purchase decision, the manufacturer provides its customers with a detailed, written profitability calculation. “Our life-cycle cost calculations are so precise that they are often used as financing documents for banks or for applying for subsidies,” explains the managing partner.

Sehon sees a further advantage in the open handling of realized customer projects. Reference lists can be requested at the company headquarters or viewed on the Sehon homepage.

From a Single Source

“It is very important for our customers that we, as a full-range supplier, provide everything from a single source and work holistically,” says Tiemo Sehon. “Instead of working with many individual trades and suppliers, our customers have a central point of contact in us. This significantly relieves our customers. We take responsibility, guarantee successful project implementation, and ensure maximum customer satisfaction.”

Detailed Planning

For planning, Sehon relies on its own design department. In close cooperation with the customer as the builder, as well as with architects and engineers, it develops, calculates, plans, and documents the elaborated requirements down to the last detail.

Processes and Workflow

Paint shops must operate with high efficiency. Therefore, during new construction and modernization, particular attention is paid to lean and perfectly coordinated processes. The results of the workflow analysis are incorporated into the planning and product selection.

Energy Saving

Sehon’s paint finishing systems are a unique combination of high-tech and green technology. Compared to similar systems without or with little energy-saving technology, they can save up to 80% or more energy. For new constructions and retrofits, not only the paint finishing system but the entire operation is energetically optimized. These measures can lead to complete energy self-sufficiency of the operation. For this purpose, Sehon develops holistic heat and electricity concepts for its customers, for which funding can be applied for in most cases. The paint finishing system manufacturer relies on all regenerative energy forms and their mix, from photovoltaic systems and combined heat and power plants to heat pumps and the use of geothermal energy.

High-Tech Paint Finishing Systems

Sehon paint finishing systems are technically among the high-end class in the industry. They are full of useful and valuable functions and features that meet all the requirements of modern paint shops and guarantee the best quality.

Technical highlights include energy-saving, high-performance units, year-round heat recovery, automatic air pressure and air management, automatic operating mode control for resource conservation, perfect filter technology, and online service.

Paint Finishing Systems with Robotics

With the AI-REVOLUTION, SEHON has developed a paint booth with AI-supported robotic painting. It was designed for craft and industrial customers. This allows vehicles, components, and products to be painted fully automatically.

The system is suitable for both single-piece painting and small series. It complies with all legal requirements when people work with robotics in paint finishing systems (including explosion protection).

Conclusion

“Our priority,” says Tiemo Sehon, “is that our customers receive the best possible quality and technology with maximum individuality at an excellent and transparent price-performance ratio. At the same time, we offer a unique package of services, from consulting and product selection to after-sales service. Our customers choose a long-term partnership in which they are never left alone.”

Author: Michael Teschke | Photo: SEHON.

Networking:

Digitalization in paint systems makes businesses successful

Digitalization in paint systems makes businesses successful

At SEHON, innovative paint systems have been helping to expand and secure the competitiveness, efficiency, and innovative strength of body and paint shops for many years.

With SEHON paint systems, digitalization makes a significant contribution to achieving greater efficiency and productivity through automation, speeding up processes, and minimizing potential sources of error. This leads to substantial cost savings, especially in energy costs (heat and electricity), and conserves resources (sustainability).

“Our system technology is regarded as leading in the industry,” explains Tiemo Sehon. “This is due, among other things, to the maximum degree of digitalization in our products, processes, and services. Paint booths with AI-supported robotic painting are another milestone that we have implemented for our customers.”

Tiemo Sehon also points out that many of the system functions and capabilities offered by SEHON are not available at all, or only partially, from other providers. This applies in particular to energy savings and energy management for the entire operation. For this reason, it is advisable to take a close look before a new build, a retrofit, or a modernization, compare offers, and make decisions based on figures, data, and facts.

A selection of features illustrates the high degree of digitalization in SEHON paint systems and paint technology:

Control system

The brain of every paint system is the control system. Today, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are used, which are programmed on a digital basis and regulate and coordinate what happens in the system as well as in machines and other devices. The more complex the functions of paint booths and dryers are, the more sophisticated, intelligent, and high-quality the control system must be. In addition to the classic basic functions, SEHON systems offer, among other things, a fully automatic air-pressure regulation system, various energy-saving systems, and a frequency-controlled, fully automatic air management system. The systems are operated and controlled via an intuitive, central touchscreen panel.

Online service

SEHON’s digital online service enables continuous real-time monitoring of the system technology installed at the customer’s site. Potential malfunctions can thus be located and resolved in no time. The encrypted transmission of data takes place via VPN routers, which enable secure remote access and protect against data theft.

Unit technology

SEHON uses highly efficient, energy-saving unit technology with integrated heat recovery. Part of this technology is operating-mode switching without pressure fluctuations. The intelligent system automatically detects whether the paint booth is in standby mode or whether painting, flash-off, or drying is taking place. Supply air, exhaust air, and energy demand are then adjusted fully automatically.

Filter technology

Perfect filter technology is crucial for high paint quality and clean exhaust air. To meet these two parameters, a required filter change is displayed, for example, via the control panel.

Heat recovery

Year-round heat recovery with rotary heat exchangers, in combination with the control system and filter technology, ensures a stable, continuous efficiency of over 70%.

Energy management

SEHON’s energy management system (EMS) is a combination of software, hardware, and processes. It records, analyzes, and controls energy flows in businesses that SEHON equips with state-of-the-art energy technology for electricity and heat (such as CHP units, heat pumps, and photovoltaic systems). This reduces energy consumption, minimizes costs, and continuously improves energy efficiency.

Digitstore

SEHON’s Digitstore is an automated, digital storage system for controlled storage, goods dispensing, and inventory management of small parts and consumables in industrial, commercial, and craft businesses. Using DigitStore can reduce material consumption by up to 50%. The integrated software provides a continuous overview of stock levels and withdrawals. Reports for management, purchasing, accounting, or controlling are generated in real time. If required, orders can be triggered directly with the supplier of the goods and parts stored in the DigitStore.

Aircommander

The Aircommander is a high-end device for conditioning spray and paint air. It enables better surfaces, lower paint consumption, higher throughput, and significantly less finishing work. It ensures finer atomization and a smoother flow-out of the paint, less dust and dirt, and significantly less overspray. This increases quality and saves valuable resources.

Repair of electric vehicles

Cameleon Systems from Sehon are workstations, safety technology, accessories, and workshop equipment for the safe handling and repair of electric vehicles. The ultra-modern safety package alone, with key components such as gas sensors, concentration measurement modules, fine dust detectors, and required extraction systems, would be unthinkable without digitalization. The system measures pollutant concentrations around the clock in the relevant work and workshop area and triggers an audible and visual alarm if limit values are exceeded. All important data is recorded and stored.

Robotic painting

The new generation of SEHON paint systems, the AI-REVOLUTION, are paint booths for AI-supported robotic painting. The AI-REVOLUTION is particularly suitable for painting individual items (batch size 1) and small series, for example in craft businesses such as automotive paint shops or in industry. Key advantages in terms of AI and digitalization are scanning, data capture, data processing, and real-time implementation. It is a self-learning system that requires no teaching. The AI-REVOLUTION enables fully automated painting processes.

“Our system technology and our services,” Tiemo Sehon summarizes, “make a significant contribution to the digitalization of body and paint shops. We guarantee maximum efficiency, perfect processes, and significant cost savings. In this way, our systems make a major contribution to our customers’ success and future viability.”

Author: Michael Teschke | Photo: SEHON.

Networking: