Automation
Small quantities:
Manual and semi-automatic systems:
The requirements for modern production of low to medium volume components include the following:
- • High flexibility
- • Short changeover times
- • Easy handling
- • Short "time to market"
High quantities:
Fully automated systems or production lines:
The requirements for modern production of components with high to huge quantities include the following:
- • High availability
- • Product-specific or product-optimized
• Low manpower requirements and service maintenance
At the beginning of a new project, it is not always clear and unambiguous which form of automation is the best possible one. Therefore, we always check different possibilities / scenarios and work out together with you the most reasonable and economical solution.
In the following we show you some examples / possibilities of welding machines with different degrees of automation.
Manual loading and unloading:
Manual loading and automatic unloading:
• Manual loading of the two components (coiled bimetal and fixture)
• Automatic handling / assembly of the components
• Automatic laser welding process (two parallel welds in one pass using bifocal optics) including QA
• Automatic unloading of the welded part including reject sorting
• Simple but efficient system
• Limited flexibility
• Quick changeover of workpiece holders
Manual and automatic loading as well as manual unloading:
• Manual loading of the brush block
• Automatic loading of contact brushes from reel
• Automatic handling / assembly of the components
• Automatic laser welding process (11 respectively 15 welding points) including QA
• Manual unloading of the welded component
• Simple but efficient system
• Limited flexibility
• Quick changeover of workpiece holders and product-specific tools
Fully automatic machines:
• Automatic loading of bimetals (bulk material) into circulating workpiece carriers.
• Automatic cutting and assembling of glass fiber hose
• Automatic winding, stamping and welding of resistance wires
• Automatic unloading of the finished part including reject sorting
• More complex and efficient system
• Limited flexibility, high availability
• Fast exchanging of workpiece carriers and product-specific tools
• Automatic loading of rotationally symmetrical contact carriers (bulk material) from two bowl feeders into turntable disc
• Automatic feeding, cutting and welding of AgNi wire from reel including QA
• Automatic forming of the welded contact wire
• Automatic unloading of the finished component including reject sorting
Fully automatic production line:
Fully automatic contact manufacturing line with the following equipment:
• Strip de-coiler with straightening station
• Pre-punching press with punching-bending tool
• Contact brazing machine 1 with brazing material supply from reel, powder metallurgical contacts as bulk material, contact forming and QA
• Contact brazing machine 2 with brazing material supply from reel, powder-metallurgical contacts as bulk material, contact forming and QA
• Final punching press with punching-bending tool including QA and automatic reject sorting
Fully automatic contact manufacturing line with the following equipment:
• Strip de-coiler with straightening station
• Pre-punching press with punching-bending tool
• Contact welding machine 1 with automatic feeding, cutting and welding of contact wires / tapes from reel, contact forming and QA
• Contact welding machine 2 with automatic feeding, cutting and welding of contact wires / tapes from reel, contact forming and QA
• Thread forming machine with four tapping stations including strip cleaning
• Final punching press with punching-bending tool including QA and automatic reject sorting