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Founded in 2010, the precision electronic processing enterprise located in South China mainly produces notebook computer parts, and the company's leading products are notebook shell molding and other businesses, providing OEM foundry for well-known 3C electronic brands, such as Huawei, Xiaomi, DELL and other notebook and tablet equipment. Like most 3C electronics manufacturers, this company is constantly trying to upgrade automation and try to introduce new production equipment to replace manual or traditional industrial robots; On the one hand, it is more cost-sensitive, and hopes to achieve a payback period of no more than 18 months.
pain point
Since 2019, the company's automation transformation has focused on some flexible workstations - due to the increasing degree of customization of the consumer side, the production line is facing the challenge of small batches and multiple varieties. Even if there are only two categories of notebook computers and tablet computers, there are many models of 3C electronic products of the same brand and series, so the production line often needs to change production batches. The reason why some stations had to be retained was also due to the flexibility of manual operation and the need to meet order demand with as few frequent changes as possible to the existing production line layout.
The production line of the collaborative robot project is mainly for the processing and assembly of the plastic shell of the notebook, and the process is as follows:
1. Gluing station for the plastic case of the notebook
2. Place the metal parts in the gluing position
3. The robotic arm takes the notebook plastic and sends it to the No. 1 or No. 2 hot melter
4. The hot melt machine bonds the metal with the plastic shell at a high temperature of 80 degrees
5. The robotic arm removes the processed notebook plastic from the No. 1 or No. 2 hot melt machine
6. The robotic arm puts the materials and parts into the No. 3 machine, presses, cools and sets
7. The robotic arm will unload the processed workpiece to the assembly line
solution
The end customer uses the Elite EC66 (6kg) payload collaborative robot for the 1-to-3 loading and unloading application of the hot melt machine process. After using 1 collaborative robot corresponding to 3 pieces of equipment on this line, the original feeding station and the hot melt machine station are combined into one, which is equivalent to eliminating 2 workers, in addition to improving production efficiency and reducing personnel waiting time, it also alleviates the problem of difficult recruitment in the factory - the temperature of the hot melt machine station is high, and the probability of work-related injuries is reduced after the machine is replaced; Robots do this relatively low value-added mechanical work, which is more economical than manual work.
The small base and small footprint of the Elite EC66 cobot allow users to deploy it without the need to import an entire automated workstation and simply use a desktop installation. In addition, the cobot's drag-and-teach function reduces programming time and can be put into production in 2 days, and the easy programming feature makes it easy for users to change the robot installation position after evaluation and quickly commission.
The payback period for this project is approximately 8-12 months. After tasting the sweetness of cobots and running stably for a period of time, users are more confident in the use of cobots. At present, the No. 1 and No. 2 melt machines have a long cycle time, each running time is 60 seconds, so the factory is thinking more boldly and plans to try the 1-to-4 method to further improve production efficiency.
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