Pick-up parts - Import export

Solutions for the transport and handling of parts. The question of how surface coating plants can be optimally integrated into a production environment arises with ever increasing frequency. Rippert offers its customer an ‘everything from one source solution’ here. The company’s own engineers develop coordinated solutions for the transport and handling of parts together with the customer. Simulation is thereby often the right tool for recognising the full potential of these possibilities. From frying pans to heavy workpieces from the wind power sector, Rippert has already ‘taken it all in hand’. We work on concepts in which industrial robots substitute or supplement the classic conveying equipment in coating plants. For handling tasks we often see the necessity for systems that work adaptively; this means that, for example, image processing systems must recognise the accurate position of parts in two and even three-dimensions so that a robot can pick up inaccurately positioned parts.

Metzner powder press and indexable insert automations of the "RPA 3-SC series" automatically remove pressed blanks from a powder press and deposit them quickly and gently in a definable sample. In the "RPA 3-SC1", the transfer of the individual sintering plates and the loading of the blanks is carried out by a SCARA 4-axis robot. The empty sintering plates are placed manually into a sintering plate magazine, removed with a sintering plate gripper if necessary, and fed to the loading position. The robot then moves to a gripper station, deposits the sintering plate gripper, picks up a part gripper, and starts loading the sintering plate. In the "RPA 3-SC2", sintering plates are placed manually on a double conveyor belt. One sintering plate at a time is automatically transported to the loading position via the conveyor belt. The robot immediately starts to load the blanks. Loaded sintering plates are ejected from the loading position and manually removed from the conveyor belt.