Labor difficulties, labor shortage, high labor costs are the common problems of many injection molding enterprises, especially in the automotive interior parts industry, coupled with the impact of the 2020 spring new crown virus, want to quickly recruit skilled workers, is even more difficult!

Auputo-Robot Terminal Technology, based on its deep technological accumulation in the plastic and automotive interior parts industry, shares the cases that have been mature and applied on the spot of users to help you quickly alleviate the employment problem.

Automatic cutting end gripper-modular, easy to assemble, suitable for various nozzle schemes
With the rapid rise of local robot and manipulator manufacturers, many injection molding factories have carried out automatic production line transformation to varying degrees. However, it is common to use manual gate removal, which is time-consuming, labor-consuming, unstable in quality and hidden dangers in production safety. Auputo-automatic shearing gripper, combined with EOAT series lightweight and modular components, is ultra-simple to assemble to form a picking and shearing jig according to the gate condition of injection molded workpieces, and is equipped with automatic equipment. Through simple parameter setting, a set of picking and shearing tooling can be assembled to realize automatic picking and shearing process flow, saving time, labor, stable quality and no hidden danger of safe production.

Advantage: Save time

The standard injection molding cycle time of a rubber part (one out of four) is 24 seconds, each product has one gate to be processed, the processing time is 15 seconds and one mold product needs to be processed for 1 minute. For the same product, the automatic picking and shearing treatment by using Auputo grabbing + shearing tooling can fully meet the requirement of finishing the product gate once within the injection molding cycle time, saving nearly 60% of the time.

Advantage: provincial labor

An injection molding factory produces (one out of four) rubber parts and manually gates them. The standard injection molding cycle time is 24 seconds. On average, one machine needs 2.5 people to meet the injection molding cycle time. If there are 4 machines, it needs 10 workers. The same product is processed by grasping + shearing tooling. One person can watch 4 machines and reduce the manual by 90%.

Advantage 3: Save costs

Take 100 injection molding machines as an example. Originally, one injection molding machine needed at least one person to take care of it. It needed to pay about 200 yuan/day's labor wage. For 20 machines, it needed to pay 4000 yuan per day. For 100 machines, it needed to pay 20000 yuan for only one person per day. If automatic cutting is adopted, each person can watch at least 4 machines, and the labor cost of 100 machines will be reduced from 20000 yuan to 5000 day, reduce labor costs by 3/4.

Advantage 4: stable quality, no security risks

Manual removal of gates by manpower is often repetitive work. Due to fatigue or positional deviation in the production process, defective products are prone to occur or personal injury may occur. EOAT series product components in tooling can be matched with sensors to realize automatic detection, data upload, stable and high product quality, reusable, no human labor, and no potential safety hazards in production.

Floating cape knife-floating deflection, position compensation, help you to efficiently go to the plastic front
For the vast majority of injection molding industry, removing the edge of the product is a very common process, and usually used is also manually removed by workers, in the process of work, due to long-term repetitive action of workers, fatigue force, angle and other deviations, there will be defective products. In order to better meet the needs of all aspects of automated production, Auputo has developed a CR series floating cape knife, which is an automated de-coating product. It adopts pneumatic technology to control the floating distance of the cape knife and automatically compensate the position, so that the front-end tool can fit the product more closely. It can work 24 hours a day through simple parameter setting, because the basic operating parameters such as path and floating distance are set in advance, the tool runs according to the set path, strength and angle, which effectively eliminates the generation of product defect rate and reduces the operating cost.

Advantages: Efficient, cost-saving
For example, a plastic part is removed from the front and manually removed from the front. Workers work 8 hours a day per shift. Excluding normal rest and delay time in the middle, the actual working time is 7 hours and 20 minutes a day. Each workpiece is processed for 2 minutes. Each shift can process 220 workpieces. Usually, according to the defective product rate of not more than 2%, in fact, each person can achieve 215 workpieces a day. However, the use of Auputo-CR series floating pate knives is still calculated by processing one workpiece every 2 minutes, 24 pieces per hour, and 720 workpieces can be processed 24 hours a day without interruption. There are no defective products, and the work efficiency is doubled.

QC Quick Change Device-Quick Change to Realize Multi-purpose of One Machine
In the process of automatic production, due to the need to meet several different product processing in a short time, it is necessary to exchange different tooling. At present, the consumption habits in the international market are basically less and more samples. Taking a manipulator with an injection molding machine as an example, it is necessary to change tooling three times to complete the three processes of taking parts, embedding and assembling in 24 hours, it takes 30 minutes to 2 hours to replace a traditional set of tooling. On average, it takes at least 3 hours to replace three sets of tooling. In the middle of this, it is also necessary to eliminate the interference of fault interference, accidents and other adverse factors.

Auputo, in order to meet the needs of customers for quick and convenient replacement, has introduced OQC series automatic quick replacement, unique air-cut protection design, breaks through the synchronous sensing detection technology of air-cut-off and machine-off functions, integrated control, realizes 1-minute replacement, and can also ensure good accuracy and high stability, helping enterprises to reduce labor costs and maintenance costs in production. Still taking the replacement of three sets of tooling as an example, QC series automatic quick change is used, and the sharing time will not exceed 30 minutes, thus effectively solving the problem of quick change tooling, realizing multiple functions of one machine, greatly reducing labor input, improving the efficiency and quality of quick change tooling, making production easy and friendly, and helping downstream enterprises to improve profits. On the other hand, OQC series quick change also supports LO-LINK detection, remote alarm and other services to reduce the labor intensity of employees, while reducing the flow of personnel in the factory and avoiding the risk of infection.

Advantages-safe, fast and efficient

The traditional replacement of a set of tooling takes 30 minutes to 2 hours. On average, it takes at least 3 hours for three sets, and the interference of fault interference, accidents and other adverse factors should be eliminated in the middle. Using OPT automatic quick change, the common time for replacing three sets of tooling will not exceed 30 minutes.

At present, Auputo terminal technology has provided many safe and reliable automation, intelligent and integrated system solutions for automotive interior parts, household appliances, medical equipment, robots and other equipment. At the same time, it has also reached close cooperative relations with most of the leading enterprises in the industry at home and abroad, and worked together to help upgrade the automation industry.