In the press shop, the production of body panels, such as valves, hoods, roofs, engine molds and other components, requires high-precision stamping and metal positioning in order to protect expensive dies and stamping units and to keep the individual components intact.
Assembling engine molds is a high-precision process. On a 300-metre-long circular assembly line, an error at any one station can affect the assembly of the final aluminum engine mold. Since the entire process is automated, the faulty mold may not be detected, resulting in the defective engine module still being installed inside the vehicle.
Once the mould used to manufacture the aluminium engine module has been opened, the entire assembly process is clearly visible, which ensures that defects can be detected before the engine module is finished product, using the Balluff traceability solution, the industrial identification RFID system.
Its traceability allows for the tracking of every step of the mold opening process and the use of automatic identification. The system automatically records the assembly of each module tool, and once traced, the company knows what happened during the assembly process and what other parts were assembled at the same time. This solution also writes sensor data from the automation equipment to ensure that defects in the mold can be detected before the molten aluminum is poured into the mold.
Benefits of using Balluff traceability solutions:
The whole process is clearly visible
Check for errors before machining and improve quality
Defects can be traced down to a single station or a machining process
Improvements to the machining process can be made in the specific area where the problem occurs
The Balluff system used on the processing line consists of a complex sensor network and RFID read heads. Vision sensors detect the presence or absence of each opening or other structure, while other types of sensors detect or measure the shape characteristics of those openings or structures to ensure they are within tolerance. When a new mold is opened, the mold is given a serial number, which is stored in the coding block. The processing line is also equipped with different sensors to detect the presence and position of the coding blocks, ensuring that the position of the coding blocks is aligned and thus ensuring that each process is carried out as intended.
Each station is equipped with a Balluff RFID reader on the factory floor to view the ID number of the RFID chip in the coding block and encode the work-related information on the station into the chip. Once the mold reaches the end of the assembly line, the chip of the coding block is finally read, and the system determines whether there is an error in the chip. If an error occurs and the processing line stops working, the employee receives an alert showing the specific station where the problem occurred. In this final process, the RFID data recorded in the coding block chip is stored in the back-end system and corresponds to the individual module serial number.
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