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 Applications: Gasket Dispenser

Gasket Dispenser


Company G design and manufacture a range of custom machines including an automated fluid gasket dispenser.

The machine is designed to dispense any required shape and to provide maximum machine productivity. The machine has to be safe to operate; it has to meet demanding European Machine Safety regulations.

 

The gasket dispenser comprises of a two component position, rotary carousel. As one position is being unloaded / loaded, dispensing takes place in the second position, which is totally enclosed for safety reasons.


 

Gasket dispenser

The product on which the gasket fluid is dispensed is available in a number of sizes. The gasket dispenser program and the program path is automatically modified to suit each specific product.

The machine is operated by entry level, non technical operators. The complete automatic control sequence embedded in the AMC machine controller requires that the operator:

a) manually select the current part type if there is a type change

b) lift a guard cover

c) unload a dispensed part

d) load a new part, then

e) close the guard.

The complete control sequence, permanently flashed and held within the standard AMC, uses moderately complex PLC sequences integrated with machine movements defining dispense paths. These were developed using NEE’s Graphical Programming Software, GPS.

The process must be continually monitored by the NEE AMC controller. If there is a period of longer than 3 minutes since the last dispense the machine must automatically move to an exhaust position and expel the contents of the dispensing head to stop the mixture hardening within the head.

Company G chose to use the NEE AMC’s because of:
  • The option of integrated stepper drives within the controller


  • No additional PLC was required to implement the complex control sequences


  • NEE engineers took on all the tasks of integrating the controller with the machine, and designing, generating and testing the complete system


  • The competitive cost of the system