Inserting parts into the mechanical body with camera guidance

Year of realisation

2017

Number of pieces delivered

Industry

Plastic fabrication, Automotive

Implementation time

20-25 CW

Cycle time

6s/pc

Estimate budget

Cat. 100k - 150k EUR

Automated operations

Handling, Camera guidance, Positioning, Camera inspection, Assembly, Pressing

Technical standard

Siemens, Festo, Fanuc, Keyence, Schunk

Motivation for automation

During the complaint procedure, the customer discovered that the manual operation created a risk of a non-conforming part. As a corrective measure, the customer chose to add full automation of this operation to the existing production line.

Project description.

The subject of the implementation was the development and integration of equipment for automatic feeding and loading of parts into the mechanical body into the existing line.

Process description:

The fed parts are distributed from the preloader to the conveyor system.
A camera-guided robot grabs the correctly oriented parts - the incorrectly oriented parts are returned to the conveyor infeed by a return conveyor
The robot compensates for angular rotation via the camera and inoizes the part
Presses the part into the mechanical body with a defined force
The supplied equipment was connected to the control system of the existing line