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Assembly of electric drives for roller shutters in 9 stations (rotor, sleeves, ball bearings, brake backing plate, motor assembly), cycle time 10 seconds.
Battery testing: destructive testing of EV batteries as a preliminary stage for battery recycling, manual loading.
Pressing bushings into spacer washers, bulk material feeding with robot handling.
Joining a bushing onto the rotor shaft using a servo press, including DMC laser marking for traceability.
Joining the rotor shaft into the stator stack by pressing, with force and position monitoring.
Joining rotor and stator in 2 parallel press stations (synchronised operation) to reduce cycle time.
Laser marking and contact welding with robot handling for over 20 different parts, autonomy over 5 hours.
Loading cell for a laser hardening machine with cleaning station for raw and finished parts, machine loading and gripper change station, including process control with reject ejection.
Collaborative robot cell for palletising cutting inserts with 2D position detection, DMC and RFID pallet detection.
Loading of three CNC machines from a pre-machining station (milling/drilling, clamping fixture, extraction), with robot feeding via camera positioning and cleaning station/parts washer.
Picking randomly oriented workpieces from crates with a regripping station, tending the machining centre and placing in a crate.
Robot on a 7th axis (6 m travel) with a travelling raw/finished part rack, blow-off booth, Renishaw measuring station with calibration master unit and NOK/OK ejection.
DMC laser marking of the rotor shaft on VKE’s own laser machine, integrated into the joining and press machine.
Labelling with barcode and DMC, data sourced from the MES.
Inspecting cutting inserts for edge chipping by camera inspection, with infeed and outfeed.
End-of-line functional testing of control units with cobot loading.
Filling and pressure testing as well as leak testing of hydraulic cylinders, manual loading.
Deburring of sawn sections directly after the saw, cycle time <10 sec., autonomy >4h, including NOK handling.
Joining rotor and stator in 2 parallel stations (synchronised operation) to reduce cycle time.
