High-Speed Connector Assembly Machine
Assemble, swage, and inspect a connector every 1.25 seconds.
This high speed assembly tool orients, assembles, swages and inspects electrical connectors at a rate of 1.25 seconds per assembly. Bulk parts are manually loaded into vibratory bowls on the left-hand side of the machine, where parts are then oriented and singulated before entering the machine enclosure.
Inside the enclosure, turret-mounted pick-and-place tools load arriving components into pneumatic collets carried in nests on a 10-station rotary index table. As the table rotates, components are automatically swaged, vision inspected, and then tested before being unloaded to the packaging line. Failed components are automatically removed to a reject bin near the operator station.
The entire process is recipe driven from a custom touch-screen interface. Part changeover can be completed in under ten minutes, and requires little more than replacing part adapter components at the nests and selecting a new recipe at the user interface.
| Technical Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Control System: |
PC-based controls system running on Microsoft Windows XP operating platform. Custom-designed touch sensitive user interface. |
| Material Handling: |
Parts supplied via vibratory bowls and tracks. Part feed by escapement and pick and place. Parts pro-cessed at 10 stations on rotary index table. |
| Operator Interface: |
Touch-sensitive screens designed in C#. |
| Throughput: |
Approximately 1.25 seconds cycle time per part. |
| Inspection: |
Part placement and swage quality confirmed by machine vision. Assembly process verified by load cell. |
| Pick and Place: |
Custom designed turrets, fed by vibratory bowls (2X). |
| Safety: |
All moving machinery contained within fully interlocked enclosure. No operator access while control power is active. Parts can be safely fed while machine is running. |
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