FACTORY AUTOMATION FEATURE AUTOMATED CELL BRINGS 24/7 MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY
Engineering design consultancy Ingenium Integration has developed a multi-function automated production cell for UK-based wheelbarrow manufacturer H & E Knowles. The innovative cell which will speed production of full and part frames by eliminating many labour-intensive aspects of production is scheduled to be commissioned in Q2 2016. “We have developed automated production cells for a number of production processes involving tube bending,” explains Ingenium MD Dave Ashworth. “The system under construction is the most integrated system we have designed to date; fully automating most of the stages of wheelbarrow frame production including tube bending, hole punching, swaging and cut-to-length – and is designed for unattended 24/7 operation.” Ingenium Integration bases many of its automated production cell designs around all-electric tube benders from parent company Unison. In this instance, the system being built for H & E Knowles is a 38 mm (1.5-inch) twin head model from Unison’s all-electric Breeze range. It features a left and right head on the same carriage that facilitates precision symmetrical bending to reduce cycle
times with an off-set facility to enable asymmetrical bending of the final tight bend at the wheel end of wheelbarrow frames while avoiding collision with machine architecture during the process. The production cell comprises a tube
bundle loader, tube orientation station with seam detection, intermediate dual- arm loader, bending machine and several articulated robotic handlers in addition to swaging, hole punching and cut to length stations. It advances the state of the art in this manufacturing sector by fully automating the entire wheelbarrow frame manufacturing process from raw
The cell developed for automated wheelbarrow frame production undergoing trials. The cell integrates tube bending, hole punching, swaging and cut-to-length
tube material handling through to final pre-paint finishing and quality inspection. The cell was developed at Ingenium Integration’s design centre in Manchester and manufactured and assembled in a facility at its parent company Unison in Scarborough. Ingenium Integration is able to call upon Unison’s expertise in all-electric tube bending technology to help solve many of its customers’ fabrication problems. The company holds an integration license for the 5-axis parallel kinematic machines (PKMs) developed by Exechon. These are setting new performance standards in robotics and enable Ingenium Integration to create leading-edge automation solutions for a variety of industrial applications.
Ingenium Integration T: 01723 580163
www.ingeniumintegration.com
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