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FANUC America’s Automated Systems Group designs, builds, and programs fully automated turn key systems for a number of FANUC’s customers. This talented group integrates robots, machine tools, lifts and conveyor systems into factories and manufacturing facilities every day. The following system was engineered and built to machine cylinder heads for small engines.
The cylinder head machining system includes three FANUC five-axis ROBODRILL CNC milling machines, two washer units, a press and a CNC all tended by two FANUC M-20iA robots mounted to an overhead rail gantry. This was accomplished in under 30 weeks within a small footprint on the customers manufacturing floor. The FANUC ROBODRILL is a very cost effective machine that produces parts at a very high rate of speed and is smaller than most other machines resulting in reduced floor space. When coupled with load/unload automation using FANUC robots the throughput increases due to faster cycles and the elimination of the inefficiencies inherent in manual machine tending. The system’s process starts as the FANUC robot picks a cylinder head from an infeed shuttle. The robot loads and unloads parts to three FANUC ROBODRILLs, each with a different operation. The robot then loads and unloads the OP40 washer, OP50 guide press, OP60 Machine, OP70 washer, and finally the robot places finished parts to an outfeed conveyor.
A QC drawer is used to periodically check parts from the various operations without shutting the line down. A KMM defined inspection frequency will be entered into the HMI for each operation. When the production count reaches the selected value for a particular operation, the robot will pick the finished part from the machine and place it into the QC drawer. When the operator has finished the inspection, he will close the drawer and indicate via the HMI that the part is within specification and ready to go to the next operation. The robot will pick up the inspected part and deliver it to the next operation.
When combined with FANUC’s world-renowned quality, service and support, several ease-of-use features including FANUC Collision Guard, SoftFloat and Dual Check Safety, make this an ideal solution for modular machine tending. Please visit www.fanucameri... today to learn more about FANUC America’s full range of robotic machine tending solutions.