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Automated assembly line
28 May 2015
Astec Conveyors has designed, manufactured and installed a flexible automated production assembly line, complete with the electrical control system, for a leading manufacturer. This has virtually eliminated manual handling, delivering a 10% increase in productivity with a payback on the total project of 1.25 years.
The new automated assembly line transfers pre-assembled cages along an accumulation conveyor to a specially designed 2 axis pick and place transfer unit.
Stacks of pallets are accumulated on a heavy duty twin chain conveyor system and a pallet de-stacker feeds single pallets into a guarded area to a position where the cages are automatically lifted onto the pallet via the 2 axis transfer unit.
Cage and pallet proceed to the operator fixing station where they are assembled together; when complete, they transfer to the bottle insertion machine via a series of accumulation conveyors.
The system comprises heavy duty driven roller and twin chain pallet conveyors, turntables, 90°chain transfer unit and pallet de-stacker.
On the back of this success, Astec have been awarded another contract by the same company for another conveyor system to further automate production.
