Drew Greenblatt, president of Marlin said that the stainless custom baskets and wire forms crafted for clients will benefit from the new robot as it allows the company to make the most precise parts in the industry, fast.
According to company officials, the robotic equipment bends the wires as per drawing or 3D model, cuts to size, takes digital photos of each part, compares the photo with the drawing to certify conformance, generates an excel sheet for the dimensions in 1 by 200th of a second.
The new robot bends 492 feet of wire in 60 seconds via a pin that rotates faster than 3600 degrees in less than a second, and the repeated precision it delivers weeks on end guarantees that high quality standards, which are critical for the mass production of baskets used in many industries.
This new age method also eliminates conventional and relatively time consuming Production Part Approval Process, or “PPAP,” because the statistical randomized sampling component associated with the process is no longer required.
"PPAP is a thing of the past now because we measure every single part in the entire run,” said Greenblatt. “If the part is bad, the robot segregates the part. All good parts are digitally measured and we can email this to our client with the packing slip."
Company officials said that the AIM robot recently produced 100,000 parts in the first three weeks of production and the proven speed and quality landed landed an additional order for an extra 300,000 parts.
In order to have a successful product, the company has maximized output by juxtaposing a Fanuc robot with it to catch formed parts and possibly thread, punch, chamfer, swage, upset, drill or perform a myriad of other tasks consistently and fast.
Vivek Naik is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Vivek's articles, please visit his columnist page.
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Kelly McGuire