High Speed Connector Assembly

High Speed Automated Connector Assembly System

Assemble, swage, and inspect a connector every 1.25 seconds.

This high speed assembly tool orients, assembles, swages and inspects electrical connectors at a rate of 1.25 seconds per assembly. Bulk parts are manually loaded into vibratory bowls on the left-hand side of the machine, where parts are then oriented and singulated before entering the machine enclosure.

Inside the enclosure, turret mounted pick-and-place tools load arriving components into pneumatic collets carried in nests on a 10-station rotary index table. As the table rotates, components are automatically swaged, vision inspected, and then tested before being unloaded to the packaging line. Failed components are automatically removed to a reject bin near the operator station.

The entire process is recipe driven from a custom touch-screen interface. Part changeover can be completed in under ten minutes, and requires little more than replacing part adapter components at the nests and selecting a new recipe at the user interface.

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Technical Specifications

Component	Specifications
Control System:	PC-based controls system running on Microsoft Windows XP operating platform. Custom-designed touch sensitive user interface.
Material Handling:	Parts supplied via vibratory bowls and tracks. Part feed by escapement and pick and place. Parts pro- cessed at 10 stations on rotary index table.
Operator Interface:	Touch-sensitive screens designed in C#.
Throughput:	Approximately 1.25 seconds cycle time per part.
Inspection:	Part placement and swage quality confirmed by machine vision. Assembly process verified by load cell.
Pick and Place:	Custom designed turrets, fed by vibratory bowls (2X).
Safety:	All moving machinery contained within fully interlocked enclosure. No operator access while control power is active. Parts can be safely fed while machine is running.
Integrated Technical Capabilities:	Machine Vision – High Performance and Low Cost Integrated Motion Control PC Controls Pick and Place Handling Inspection and Quality Assurance Automated Assembly Custom Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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High Speed Automated Connector Assembly System

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