Guyson sets up automated blast and wash trial facility

The company has installed a Motorman HP6 robot and NX100 controller to provide free process evaluation and demonstration facilities for potential automated blast or wash cell customers. Guyson reports an increased demand for fully automated process cells and with this fully working robotic cell, it is able to simulate a number of real-time automated production scenarios, including performing machined component pallet to pallet time and motion studies. The robot can be used to manipulate a single blast nozzle around a heavy complex work piece or to pick a small, light component from a pallet and orientate it in front of fixed stationary blast nozzles. The same robot can move work pieces through a full automated cell for pre and post washing or ancillary finishing such as laser marking and prove ‘lights out’ stacked pallet production processes. This will see robotics used to somewhere near its full potential, not just as a dumb pick and place unit to simply load and unload components, but rather as a sophisticated and integral part of the finishing equipment manufacturer’s cellular production process.