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Injection moulding
News Release from: Engel Austria | Subject: Engel ERC robotic line
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2001
Automating pulley moulding
An Engel unmanned injection moulding line, conceived with rapid mould change-ocver, is producing a wide variety of automotive drive belt pulleys for the Dutch enterprise Axxicon.
An Engel unmanned injection moulding line, conceived with rapid mould change-ocver, is producing a wide variety of automotive drive belt pulleys for the Dutch enterprise Axxicon Pulley production was a very demanding and labour intensive process, with regard to the high precision, the critical temperature range and the wear resistance to be achieved
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Automation boosts injection moulding quality
The prime aim of the automation of injection moulding systems is not to save high labour costs but to ensure high process and product quality, says Engel.
To automate prtoduction, a line should enable unmanned operation for at least 8h.
In close cooperation with Axxicon, the engineers of the Engel Automation Technology Division arranged parts to arrive on a large buffer conveyor-belt, for transfer to an isolation belt.
On this belt, the parts, including bearings, are pre-isolated at different cavity distances by bubble guides and isolation plates for pick-up by an Engel ERC robot which places them as inserts into the fixed mould half.
Prefabricated parts taken from the ejector half of the mould are placed afterwards on an intermediate depositing table by the ERC robot.
Then the ERC robot loads the next batch of parts to the die half.
A second ERC robot is used to fill boxes with the mouldings, the boxes being presented and removed by handling devices.
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