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In a production line, 3 machining centers (Alfing) need to be linked. The unmachined part in- and outfeed needs to be incorporated as well as an embossing station.

Loading of gear cutting machines with crown wheels and pinions.
The whole cell consists of four machining centers, two for the crown wheels and two for the pinions. The maximum part weights are 35kg for the crown wheels and 8kg for the pinions respectively. One parts change cycle which consists of unloading a part and loading a new one has to be done within 35s.

In high-voltage applications welded aluminium pipes are used for gas insulated switchgear. In pressure resistant piping systems high currents are being switched under SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) inert gas.
To prevent electric breakdown, the junctions of the gas-filled piping have to be smooth. Such a pipe consists of a cylindrical centre section with cast aluminium flanges welded on on both sides. To meet the requirements, the weldseams between centre section Read more ...

Major tier 1 Japanese stamping company located in Mansfield, Ohio, USA, was awarded a contract to provide door sash stampings for an automobile manufacturer located in Marysville, Ohio, USA. The Tier-one manufacturer was looking to reduce the manual handling of finished parts and part racks.

Automate the de-stacking, loading, unloading, and restacking of Frame Rails through bend, pierce, and form operations.
(4) Operators were manually running production on a 91 kg 5.3 meter frame rail. This part had to be run three times through a press to get the bend, pierce and form operation. Each batch had to be de-stacked, loaded/unloaded through a press and restacked or loaded into a rack.

A manually operated manufacturing line for insulated sheet metal panels has to be automatized maintaining the flexibility in regard of the broad product range. Panels ranging from 1x1 foot in size up to 4x8 foot have to be assembled from two blanks bent on press brakes and an optional layer of insulation material. A competitors proposal uses standard market solutions with a transfer system. The high cost and low flexibility of this alternative result in tipping the scales on Read more ...

Production of bevel pinions for drive trains of construction equipment. In full automation mode the cell has to be able to produce parts with a cycle time of 3 minutes. Included in the cell are two shaping, one deburring and a washing machine. A further difficulty is to handle 200 different parts with a maximum setup time between products of under ten minutes. Finally the available height of the building is limited so that a special solution has to be found to be able to Read more ...