Industry:
Automobile (farm equipment)
Material handled:
Differential case under machining and assembled machining
Activity to be mechanized/automation:
- machining of the differential case between side facing and boring (on side)
- haphazardly placed machines need to be connected with conveyors
- orientation and one at a time feeding of the components per machine
- assembly of left and right handed assemblies for assembled machining
Issues faced:
- different machines at different locations are sequential in operation
- components from machines to be conveyed without manual intervention
- wherever needed, orientation changing devices must be incorporated
- use of resources for component travel must be efficient
- selection of feeding one component at a time or as buffered
- assembly area of the components to be online with conveyors
Solution provided with equipment:
- idler roller split type conveyors with rigid frame & adjustability
- lifting/lowering units with oat (one at a time) units
- tilting with clamping units with oat units
- plc and advanced pneumatics based control elements
Benefits:
- flexibility in designing layouts for effective placement of large machines
- hassle free movement of components using free gravity
- overall usage of resources is at minimum
- maintenance friendly equipment design with least issues
- sequence of operations with standard operation procedures can be established and monitored
