This project included the complete design and build of a 40mm projectile assembly station. The station was fed by a single operator who loaded the components onto a dial assembly and initiated the cycle. An additional side station provided insertion of a foam die cut product which was automatically inserted into a component. This system was designed for and operated in an explosion proof environment. The system preformed such operations as:
Adhesive application
Adhesive vision inspection
Volumetric Bulk Feeding
Vacuum assisted Torque insertion with servo feedback
Final Vision inspection
Final weigh scale inspection
Laser Marking
This project included the complete design and build of a Battery inspection and batter pack assembly cell. The operator supplied the in-feed conveyor with a tray of lithium ion batteries. A vision guided six axis Fanuc robot pick the part from the in-feed and placed them the dial assembly station, the robot then picked the fully inspected and tested battery and placed it either in the new battery pack or in the reject bin.
Vision guided Six axis Fanuc Robot
Indusoft Scada/HMI display
dial indexing system
Barcode reading and with scada logging
Servo controlled for full 360 Vision inspection
ACIR and OCV Batter testing with scada logging
This project included the complete design and build of four identical Tape winding machines. This process included the electronic camming of two servo motors with a electronically controlled hysteresis brake for managing tape tension during the wrapping process. The operator loaded the part into a pnuematic chuck, started the first wrap of the tape, and pressed the start button. The system would wrap the tape onto the part with an overlap tolerance of 0.005” for the full 36” part length. Once completed an air knife would cut the tape and release the part.
Electronically geared Servo Position Control
Multinational scada reporting
On the Fly Tape Tension control
Barcode reading and with scada logging
Vacuum Assisted Tape Shearing
This project included the complete design and build of 20 identical Fletching Applicators. The process allowed two operators to work as a team with a group of machines. Based on production requirements individual machines could be moved from one table to another and reconnected to the provided machine network. For ease or operation a server was installed on the machine network for data collection and system configuration. Authorized personnel could log into the server and configure the machines on a table with the appropriate recipes and push that data to each machine. This decreased setup time and ensured each machine on a table was work working off of the same recipe. To increase production a statistical display connected to the machine network showed the production numbers for each tables team. This customer provided the team with the highest numbers at the end of a week a gift card to dinner, this encouraged each team to ensure the equipment was in top working conditioning and that all supplies were ready and available for production. The Customer reported an on average 18% increase in through put and a 100% decrease is operator complacency.
Pneumatic driven walking beam for Fletch index
Adhesive Dispensing system with weir reservoir
servo driven Part indexer
Fume Control System
Implementation of Machine Network
Implementation of Scada and server system
Distributed network controls system
This project included the complete design and build of a robotic medical kitting system. The operator chose from a networked managed recipe database of over 250 recipes during the system setup. The operator then loaded the bulk parts hopper with all of the individual parts for the selected medical kit barcode scanning each bulk bag and data logging the lot and tracking information. A medical kit could include up to 6 different parts. The robot then used vision guidance to pick each part from the picking tray and place the required components of a single kit in the automatic bagging system. Each pick and place occurred within 2 seconds and each bag was labeled with all required information for lot tracking and part traceability for medical manufacturing.
Vision guided Six axis Fanuc Robot
Indusoft Scada/HMI display
Flex Feeder for part distribution
Barcode reading and with scada logging
Ion static controlled environment
Bag and Label each medical kit
Vision Verification of each Label
This project included the complete design and build of a robotic sandblasting system. the operator loaded the system with two pallets of small circular parts that were completely painted. Once the system was loaded the robot would remove a part from the in-feed pallet and place it in a clamping fixture holding the part on the outside diameter. Next the robot would present the clamping fixture to a vertically mounted blasting nozzle and rotate the part while moving in a linear direction removing paint from the Inside of the part. Next the robot would remove the part from the outside diameter clamping fixture and present the part to a horizontally mounted blasting nozzle while rotating and moving in a linear motion removing paint from the outside part.
Aluminum Oxides Blasting Cell
Sand Blasting control and monitoring
Robotic sanding blasting with a 0.003” Tolerance
Aluminum Oxide Ventilation/Reclamation system
HMI Adjustment of each blasting Profile and Location
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