SECTOR: CAR COMPONENTS
APPLICATION: painting
PROBLEM:
The realization of a painting plant for spoilers and bumpers which will optimize productivity for even small to medium production volumes and which will be flexible in that it will be possible to paint both different sized products and lots of different volumes.

Specifications :
  • varying product dimensions, which is to say different stay times in the various treatment areas;
  • 4 different types of painting processes must be accommodated within the same plant: undercoater (generally for spare parts), undercoater and final coat painting, with or without lacquer, with final coat and lacquer;
  • reduced space.
 
SOLUTION :
The plant has been realized using upturned System 2000 P & F conveyors arranged in five rings on three levels (400 m. in total). The conveyor includes elevators and lowerators at two and three levels to permit the changes of level required by the different treatments that the product must undergo. The software solution on one hand makes it possible for a process code to be assigned to the products loaded on the trolleys and thus the path that the products must take, and on the other hand it controls the speed of the master chain and automatically synchronizes this with that of the slave chains.
The plant is further supplied with a self-diagnosis system which speeds up the starting time after malfunctioning. Finally, statistical processing of these malfunctions allow for targeted preventive maintenance.