Automotive Oil Pump Assembly System
Customer Challenge
New product launch for Tier 1 automotive company
- Customer looking for a decrease in cycle time and to expand capacity
- Interfaces with clean room area and with existing cleaning equipment
- Multiple station, modular design with Poka-yoke
- Internal components to the assembly had to be error proofed
Profile:
Semi-Automated Power and Free assembly system with manual load stations.
Features
- High-precision shaft to rotor pressing operations
- Pallet-based, twin-belt conveyor, open center
- Allen Bradley Controls
- SCARA style Fanuc robots
- Semi clean room environment
- Multiple automated part feeding systems: bowl, tube and automated screw feeding
- Sub 1-minute cycle time
- Inline quality test for press data force and distance monitoring
- Run out verification of critical features
- AI-enabled Cognex MAR shaft inspection
- End of line functional tester
- Test data stored locally for track and traceability
- Integrated part washer
- Volumetric dispense station
- High precision casting quality check station
Client Result:
Designed, commissioned, installed, and trained by Ehrhardt Automation. Detailed machine vision and lighting integrated throughout
