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Automation of a press tandem line consisting of 4 single presses for the manufacture of large surface automobile parts with a max. blank size of 4300mm x 2000mm. Direct transfer of parts from press to press with a distance of 7,2m without intermediate storage. Press line in permanent stroke mode (without stop at TDC) with up to 12 strokes per minute. 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. Read more ...

A major manufacturer of ice cream cones was planning a plant expansion, including the addition of a large warehouse space and wished to centrally build homogeneous pallets of products received at random from multiple production line ovens in this new space.

They had 8 manual palletizing points throughout the plant located near the main cone production and packaging areas and wanted to automatically feed all cased products from those multiple areas via conveyor to the new centralized palletizing area. Read more ...

The primary purpose of this 12-Axis Resistance Welding System is to create individual structural spot welds and hermetic seam welds in a light gauge stainless steel fuel tank. The spot welds must be located within 1mm of the engineering requirements over entire 15m length of the tanks. Furthermore, the system must maintain this accuracy while reacting the high forging forces necessary to make a high quality spot weld. Read more ...

Tier 1 automotive supplier was awarded the process to manufacture perimeter Frames for both a full size pickup truck and a SUV in North America. A total of 67 different parts are being produced within 55 different sets of dies making up the total stamping procedure. Read more ...

Loading and unloading a cold-rolling machine. Integrated mechanical module. Read more ...

Gleason-Pfauter gear hobbler for gear-cutting of shaft- and wheel-shaped workpieces with all the profiles and shapes that occur regularly on the circumference of cylindrical workpieces. Feeding of all parts with a horizontal axis and two vertical axes with parallel gripper. Deposit of workpieces on an indexing chain belt integrated in the machine. Read more ...

Quick handling of barrel lids in an automated painting line. Vertical transfer with a cycle time of 6 seconds for a stroke of 2.5 m. Read more ...

At the end of a production line for trueing and cutting steel plates, subsequent automatic stacking is required. The speciality of the production lies in the wide range of formats and the versatile, virtually simultaneous switch between the various dimensions of the batches. The dimensions range from 2 x 1 m to 2.13 x 16 m (plate thickness 2 -25.4 mm) and all the intermediate formats. The system is designed for a capacity per stacking station of 5 strokes per minute in normal operation or 10 strokes per minute in alternating operation. There are two stacking stations one behind the other. This doubles the stacking capacity of the system to 10 or 20 strokes per minute, respectively. The maximum vertical stroke is 900 mm, the horizontal travel from the pick-up position to the stacking station is 3,500 mm. Read more ...

The objective of this installation is to polish commercial aircraft aluminum skin panels. The quality of the process is strictly correlated to the consistency of the pressure applied by the buffing wheel over the stretch formed skin held by the supporting tool. Read more ...

Slide for universal welding robot application. Read more ...

Ejector-side or nozzle-side removal of plastic parts from a 3000 t injection moulding machine. Read more ...

Position small electrical components of 0.1 mm and larger on printed circuit boards. The machine must move up to 21,000 components/hour and must be virtually vibration-free. Read more ...

Tier 1 Automotive supplier located in South Central U.S. needed to gear up production of 67 new stampings from 55 new dies to produce SUV and truck frame parts and assemblies. Among these parts two of them require more then 300 in. of bolster to process. Read more ...

The steering knuckles were to be produced automatically on two automatic lathes and the process continuously monitored by a subsequent measuring station. The parts weigh up to 25 kg. Read more ...

In this application, concrete fibre plates are manufactured and processed for the building materials industry. Because of the extremely low ceiling height, it was sometimes necessary to use portals with telescopic axes.
Dimensions of the concrete fibre plates:
Length: approx. 2.50 m
Width: approx. 1.00 m
Weight: approx. 1.000 kg
The concrete plates are manufactured entirely in the manufacturing shop and transported to the individual processing stations via portals and roller conveyors. Read more ...

Packages of pills delivered on a conveyer belt must be picked up and placed in cardboard boxes. The packed boxes are then placed on a palette in a staggered arrangement. Read more ...

Solve Part Transfer & Re-orientation of high value, precision product in a laminar flow (Clean Room Class 100) environment. Specification requires low volumetric profile (least added volume of air to filter in process chamber), with the additional cleanliness specification requiring the lowest possible potential for contaminating process tanks. Read more ...

Loading a blast furnace and stacking ceramic pipes along a travel length of approx. 23 m.
Workpiece weight approx. 70 kg
Workpiece dimensions approx. Ø 250 x 1800 mm Read more ...

Glass sheets weighing 600 kg are stacked and stored on a so-called carousel.
Technical data:
C-axis travel: 360° / acceleration m/s²: 1.0 / speed m/s: 0.8
Y-axis travel: 2,100 / acceleration: 1.0 / speed: 1.25
Z-axis travel: 700 / acceleration: 1.0 / speed: 1.25
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