P-01 · 40 m continuous laminating and forming line
United Kingdom
40 m line that laminates and forms the laminated wood parts of kitchen cabinets, such as drawer fronts with an integrated J-pull handle. Boards up to 2 × 4 m, decorative PVC film.
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40 m line that laminates and forms the laminated wood parts of kitchen cabinets, such as drawer fronts with an integrated J-pull handle. Boards up to 2 × 4 m, decorative PVC film.

5 stations: injection moulding machine unloading, clipping, welding of sound-insulating foams, extraction and rework entry. 3 KUKA robots.

Line of around 10 stations assembling a power management electronic unit: PCB insertion into the housing, cover fitting, screwing, pressing, magnet placement and test.
Control of extract and supply fans with variable frequency drives, according to demand at each moment.

Line infeed machine that takes bulk bottles, orients them and places them in single file on the filling line conveyor.

Assembly of steering-wheel switch panels and door modules with handle and electric seat controls (memory, heating and ventilation).

Pallets of beams come in, are destacked and aligned on a conveyor. Robots load each beam into welding stations, where clips are fixed at both ends and a robot welds them. The same robots unload onto the outfeed conveyor and load new beams. Final inspection and sorting to the good-part stacker or to reject. FANUC robots.
Joining of channel plates and base plates, furnace, leak test, flatness inspection, laser flux cleaning and plug fitting before KTL. Robot handling between stations.