Patent ID: 7707705

Claim:
A method for producing from profiled blanks metallic guide elements having a functional area, the method comprising the steps of: hot forming profiled blanks; subsequently milling in a high-speed milling cutter system the profiled blanks by a position-controlled milling cutter head with milling disks of a great diameter of at least 600 mm, wherein in the step of hot forming, the profiled blanks are matched with regard to a cross-sectional mass distribution of the profiled blanks, respectively, to the subsequent step of milling such that by a partial cutting removal of the profiled blanks, the functional area of the guide elements to be produced are produced with narrow dimensional tolerances; controlling autonomously a material flow of the profiled blanks within the high-speed milling cutter system by an integrated stacking device comprised of a first manipulator and a second manipulator and turning stations, wherein a first one of the turning stations is arranged at a feed side of the milling cutter head and a second one of the turning stations is arranged at an exit side of the milling cutter head, wherein the first manipulator is arranged at the feed side and supplies the profiled blanks in a first direction to the milling cutter head for a first milling step, and wherein the second manipulator is arranged at the exit side and transports the profiled blanks after the first milling step from the milling cutter head in the first direction to the second turning station, and transports the profiled blanks from the second turning station in a second direction opposite to the first direction to the milling cutter head for a second milling step, wherein the first manipulator transports the profiled blanks after the first milling step in a second direction opposite to the first direction to the first turning station when the second manipulator is busy transporting.