Over­view

Char­ac­ter­istic of the man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cess for cars are pro­duc­tion pro­cesses using com­plex ma­chinery and sys­tems with ever in­creas­ing pro­duc­tion speeds and auto­ma­tion levels. This cor­res­pond­ingly in­creases the re­quire­ment for re­li­able fire pro­tec­tion. Fires are often caused by tech­nical de­fects in pro­duc­tion sys­tems. Due to the pres­ence of highly flam­mable ma­ter­i­als within pro­duc­tion areas and the open con­struc­tion of pro­duc­tion and as­sembly halls, fires can spread rap­idly. Ware­house areas and plant in­fra­struc­ture, server rooms, con­trol rooms or com­mon rooms and of­fice spaces also present a fire risk. When a fire oc­curs due to in­ad­equate or non-ex­ist­ent fire pro­tec­tion meas­ures, ex­ten­ded busi­ness dis­rup­tions may occur. These will cause sub­stan­tial costs and, at worst, may cause cus­tom­ers to turn to new sup­pli­ers else­where, if the de­liv­ery delays con­tinue. Flames, smoke, gas emis­sions, heat - fire has many fa­cets. Minimax has the right fire de­tect­ors for the vari­ous areas within a car man­u­fac­tur­ing plant. Their sig­nals con­verge in the fire de­tec­tion and ex­tin­guish­ing con­trol panel, which is­sues an alarm to the people at risk and no­ti­fies the fire bri­gade. In ad­di­tion, the Minimax con­trol panel mon­it­ors the in­stalled fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems for proper func­tion­ing and elec­tric­ally trig­gers those ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems that are not equipped with their own trig­ger­ing ele­ments, e.g. sprink­ler sys­tems. A sprink­ler sys­tem en­sures over­all build­ing pro­tec­tion in a car man­u­fac­tur­ing plant. Minimax of­fers a broad range of sprink­ler types and spe­cial sprink­lers that allow for ideal ad­apt­a­tion of the sprink­ler sys­tem to the re­spect­ive in­stall­a­tion situ­ation in the in­di­vidual pro­tec­ted areas. Areas with spe­cial fire risks or de­ploy­ment con­di­tions re­quire - either in ad­di­tion to, or in­stead of the sprink­ler sys­tem - a tailored total flood­ing- or equip­ment pro­tec­tion sys­tem. For this reason, de­luge sys­tems, Mini­fog water mist fire ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, Oxeo inert gas ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, car­bon di­ox­ide ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems and MX 1230 fire ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems are used in car man­u­fac­tur­ing plants. The alarm and con­di­tion re­ports is­sued by the fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems in­stalled by Minimax, as well as by other sup­pli­ers, can be visu­al­ized on screens by the In­veron haz­ard man­age­ment sys­tem. Struc­tural fire pro­tec­tion, plus tech­nical sys­tems by Minimax Mo­bile Ser­vices such as fire ex­tin­guish­ers, wall hy­drants and smoke and heat ex­trac­tion sys­tems, com­plete fire pro­tec­tion in car man­u­fac­tur­ing plants.

Protected Area

1

Hy­draul­ics rooms

2

Hy­draulic presses

3

Fil­ter sys­tems

4

Server rooms

5

Of­fices

6

Tire depot

7

Pro­duc­tion and as­sembly halls

8

Paint stor­age

9

Wet paint-spray sys­tems

10

Powder coat­ing sys­tems

11

Test stands

12

Elec­tric & con­trol rooms

13

Dis­tri­bu­tion cen­ters

1. 1

   Hy­draul­ics rooms

2. 2

   Hy­draulic presses

3. 3

   Fil­ter sys­tems

4. 4

   Server rooms

5. 5

   Of­fices

6. 6

   Tire depot

7. 7

   Pro­duc­tion and as­sembly halls

8. 8

   Paint stor­age

9. 9

   Wet paint-spray sys­tems

10. 10

    Powder coat­ing sys­tems

11. 11

    Test stands

12. 12

    Elec­tric & con­trol rooms

13. 13

    Dis­tri­bu­tion cen­ters