Automation project
- Metal rings are automatically checked for quality.
- After quality check they are brought to the injection molding machine.
- Once placed in the mold, plastic is shot into the remaining cavity.
The rings are fed into a buffer.
The rings are moved to the conveyor belt.
Above the horizontal conveyor belt, a camera checks whether the pieces are correctly oriented.
The position of the correctly positioned pieces is passed on to a gripping robot.
Rings that are not properly oriented are returned to the buffer belt.
Depending on the type of product, the 6-axis robot will grab 1 or 2 rings from the conveyor belt.
The rings are placed at an intermediate station.
The same robot arm changes gripper so that it can perform other functions. *see production change*.
With the new gripper, rings from the intermediate station are placed in the mold. *see production change*.
Finally, the final products fall out of the mold with sprue.
*During a production change, the following actions are performed automatically:*
Empty buffer.
Alternate between pick and insert gripper.
Change the intermediate station.