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Starting point

The existing system cleaned the component from the outside only.

Task

Inside and outside cleaning, higher requirement, on the existing system base — without a new purchase.

Solution

Result

A partial cleaning became a complete process system. Technical target values that had previously been doubted were reached after the conversion.

Starting point

An automotive supplier in aluminum die casting manufactures cylinder heads: many bores, hard-to-reach areas. After cleaning, a leak test follows that was already in place at the customer.

Task

Clean, rinse and dry — and hand the components over to the existing test station in such a way that they can be tested there. That included the part temperature: A part that is too warm is not usable for a leak test.

Solution

Result

Seven steps in one sequence, from picking up the raw part to handover to the test station. The test station itself did not come from us — our task was the interface to it.

Starting point

A company processes components that pose a hazard. Before they can be processed further, adhering contamination has to come off — until then by hand, directly at the component.

Task

Carry out the same work step in such a way that nobody has to stand at the component during cleaning. Not faster, not cleaner — without people at the station.

Solution

Result

The cleaning process runs entirely inside the protected cell: The robot guides the workpiece, cleans with a high-pressure water jet, dries and passes it on to the next station. Operation and process are thus spatially separated. The gain is not the cleaning — that existed before. It is that nobody stands next to it anymore.

Starting point

A customer from aerospace has gears cleaned. Technically, a chamber cleaning system would have been possible — at the required production volume it would not have carried the cycle.

Task

Reach the cleaning quality and at the same time the throughput. Both together, not one after the other.

Solution

Result

The gears continue to be treated in batches — in the basket — while the baskets pass through the system continuously. The batch process remains, the system cycle per batch is eliminated. The passivation is part of the chain, not a step afterwards.