An automotive supplier manufactures plug connections. For this purpose, inlays are fed into an injection moulding machine and overmoulded with a connector frame. A feed and buffer line is used to automate the process.
A manufacturer of office supplies needed a conveyor line for carton blanks with an integrated buffer function. The cardboard stacks come out of a cutting system in various formats and at a rate of 6 stacks per minute. The downstream stack magazine can process 4 stacks per minute, which means that a…
A manufacturer of shock absorber technology was looking for an efficient and reliable solution to automatically feed industrial shock absorbers to a robot cell. The aim was to feed the shock absorbers in cycles, securely fix them and make them available in indexed form.
During the production and assembly of brake callipers, continuous, reproducible and efficient transportation of the components is required. After mechanical processing, such as CNC milling, drilling or thread cutting, the components must be carefully picked up and transported in the correct…
A photo book manufacturer faced the challenge of expanding the number of machines it used to bind book blocks from four to eight. For the modernisation, the manufacturer not only needed additional conveyor technology, they also needed to realise a new comprehensive controller for old and new…
An automotive supplier requires a compact conveyor solution for buffering and cyclical feeding and removal of body parts to a robot cell.
A compact demonstrator with a robot, conveyor technology and a camera system at UAS Cologne provides an interactive experience of complex production processes. Thanks to the support of the mk Technology Group, key concepts such as OEE can be taught.
A custom machine manufacturer in the field of automated gear testing needed a solution for automatically conveying 6 kg of cogs and gear wheels to and from a testing station. At the same time, the conveying path designed for the task had to buffer the parts to be tested and allow any parts that were…
At a manufacturer of carton packaging, the carton blanks fed out from a production machine were stacked on pallets manually. The aim was to automate this process, with a robot taking over the palletising work in the future.
A manufacturer of metal packaging requires an interlink between a welding plant and an expander for coated paint bucket blanks, also known as bucket jackets. The jackets, which were welded in the horizontal position, come out of the welding plant horizontally and have to be transferred to a conveyor…