Automating a Thermostat Assembly

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• Automating a Thermostat Assembly Calibration
  Process

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Product Line

• Thermostat
• Two Different Styles
• Manual Calibration
• Automatic Calibration

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Process

• Station One Indexing Press Machine

• 36 Parts per Minutes
• 12 Dies

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Process

• Station Two Cold Calibration Machine

• 12 Parts Per
• Minute
• Gravity Fed
• Loading

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System Requirements

• Remove parts from die of Press Machine
• Load parts into guide track of Cold Calibration
  Machine
• Operate all machines at full speed
• Part Counting
• Alternate batch handling

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Solution

• PickNPlace
• Conveyor
• Delivery
• Part Sorting

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PickNPlace System

• Quick
• Accurate
• High
• Repeatability
• Protected by
• Safety
• Shielding

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Conveyor System

• 5 Lanes (not
• pictured
• Side Rails
• Merging to
• Single Lane
• Stable Travel
• between
• Station

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System Control

• PLC control
• Manual or
• Automatic
• Modes
• Part Counter

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Conclusion
Problems - Cost - Keeping Costs down - Part
Size - Too small for some pre-existing
equipment - Too light for some pre-existing
equipment - Speed of Equipment - Needed part
quarry to hold overflow
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• Automation Project