Automated Assembly
A manufacturer came to Barclay Machine with a set of specifications and desired features for an automated assembly machine. Barclay Machine designed and built a competitively priced solution to their requirements.
The machine pictured has two separate functions controlled by one operator which replaces five workers doing hand assembly.
The section on the left assembles three components, locks them together and inspects every completed assembly. It requires no operator input, except to load the feeder bowls and clear faulty part jams. The machine operates in excess of 20 PPM.
In the section on the right, housing assemblies are loaded on the fixtured index conveyors manually.
The machine indexes the housings forward to the work station where a pair of pick and place arms place two eyelets into the housing. The machine inspects for correct insertion of the eyelets and indexes forward to the exit station. At the exit station, the housing assembly is removed from the conveyor by a pick and place unit and inserted into the bottom of the exit tube. The completed parts fill up the tube and eventually fall out of the top of the tube into the customers parts tote.
A unique feature of the housing and eyelet section is the indexing conveyor. This unit was designed and built by Barclay Machine specifically for this application at an approximate savings of $30,000 over the cheapest commercial equivalent. Needless to say, this capability represented a significant competitive advantage for Barclay and a corresponding savings to the customer.
Barclay Machine has full in-house CAD design, machine shop and electronics application facilities. We can provide turnkey automation at considerable savings compared to many suppliers who must subcontract portions of their services. We have done numerous CNC retrofits to older machine tools, assembly machine updates, assembly machine design and builds and special accessory add-ons to CNC machine tools.
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