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Metal Coating Painting Application Without Masking

POSTED 10/04/2012

Faverges (France) - At the beginning of 1998, AXO-SCINTEX in France launched a new production line for the manufacturing of the PEUGEOT 206 taillights.

Since 1985, this company has been producing lighting and signaling equipment for the automotive industry. More than 150 employees working around the clock, are involved in this production. This spraying system developed by CERGI, France, is a new automated painting process. Thanks to the high precision of Stäubli robots, painting consumption and consequently production costs, wastes and atmospheric pollution are reduced. The painting installation consists of spraying a partial metal coating of the parabolas on two plastic reflectors (right and left taillights of the PEUGEOT 206 car).

Before the introduction of robots, the manufacturing process was performed either by operators working in spray booths or by semi-automatic machines. In both cases, the positioning of masks to protect the areas not to be painted was necessary.

The suppression of these screens has been a technical challenge, and its success heavily decreased the lamps' production costs and highly improved quality consistency. In order to meet these requirements, an automated cell has been designed including the integration of a Stäubli RXPAINT 90 robot.

Completely automatic, the cell produces 2,600 pairs of reflectors per day. There are no manual operations from the injection of the plastic parts by the press to the assembly station. The two right and left reflectors are loaded on a holder insuring correct positioning on one of the four carousel arms. After a quarter turn rotation, the parts move to the cleaning station by ionized air blowing. On completion, they turn again just in front of the dry air filter spray booth to be painted. During the trajectory definition representing the outline of the parts to be processed, the distance between the nozzle and the part has been optimized to obtain a good cover quality and an acceptable uniformity of the overtaking area.


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The homogeneity of the circular spot of the automatic spray gun, which represents the outline of the part to be painted, is obtained by acting on the robot command parameters (X,Y, Z coordinates, speed, etc...) and the same constant focal distance during the trajectories. The sprayed product's homogeneity is obtained thanks to the parameter control of the jet width and the possibilities of gun opening and closing in the robot control unit's user-program.
The robot's high precision and repeatability regulate the overspray area and guarantee finished product quality in terms of photometry.

STÄUBLI is a 100+ year old, 2,400-employee Company with annual revenues of over 700 million Swiss Francs, headquartered in Switzerland. The STÄUBLI Group commitment to customer satisfaction is proven by worldwide office locations offering a 'first class' level of services such as training and maintenance.

In its production facility located in the heart of the French Alps a few miles south of Geneva (Switzerland), STÄUBLI's Robotics Division invests 12 % of its revenues in Research and Development. An innovation and quality strategy has led STÄUBLI to be awarded ISO 9001 for its three divisions: textile, connectors and robotics.

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Marketing Manager
Stäubli Corporation - Robotics Division
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Duncan, SC 29334
USA
Tel. 864-433-1980
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