Optimal coating system from the equipment manufacturer's perspective
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What is the most ideal painting system?
Separation of coating works
｜Coating system from the equipment manufacturer's perspective
Industrial coating always involves condition setting, coating test, or sample preparation. It is important to realize that such works on the production line cause a large loss cost.
This trend is quite natural, and it is driven by the conventional concept of the coating system, which is that color must be applied on the production line before full production takes place.
Technology has advanced dramatically in recent years, and many devices are digitalized and computer-controlled, as are sensors and communication technologies. Moreover, costs are being made visible.
In such an environment, if the old ways of coating systems are inherited, it will not only be impossible to win the cost competition but also to develop even the optimization of coating films, etc.
Then, what is an ideal coating system?
The concept is to separate full production from data preparation, with the dedicated robot performing condition setting, coating test, and sample preparation. This is a simple separation of works.
No condition setting or other works on the production line. Because it would use more energy cost than necessary.
This also includes work costs, labor loss costs, and paint and equipment energy loss costs.
Therefore, the condition setting work is separated from the production line, and coating data is created by creating coating tests and coating samples with a robot system dedicated to coating data creation. The data is then installed in the full production line for full production.
As a result, it improves the work environment with lower operating costs and significantly reduces energy costs.
Coating data is created by a robot dedicated to data creation → Transfer to the production line → Full production
During production, coating data for the next model can be created.
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What is condition setting? ：
Optimizing atomization pressure, pattern pressure, and discharge pressure (amount) of paint, and creating teaching data.
Sample production Test coating :
This is a coating trial before starting full production. Preliminary evaluation of coating quality
Robot dedicated to data creation：
DATA-PRO" a simple structure robot dedicated to small volume coating, with the same specifications as a production machine, including a 1st conveyor, multiple gun attachment, precision metering system, oil booth, etc.
2023/07/30
