Process Automation Technologies™ is a provider of automation solutions, engineering, OEM integration, and manufacturing to the automotive and other high production industries.
© 2000
Process Automation Technologies™
132 Buckeye Cove Road
Swannanoa, NC 28778-2836
all rights reserved
1-800-298-1055
|
|
Integrated System Solutions
|
 |
QuickSpecs.pdf
This is our basic one page Line Card that is extremely useful for providing a quick introductory presentation or overview of our company and 3 major product lines: Integrated System Solutions, Campbell Feed Systems, and AquaFlow Industrial Washers. As a rep, or a customer, you can't be without it, so download it now.
|
 |
BallStudSystem.pdf
A complete ball-stud manufacturing automation solution is featured in this 3-page brochure, from raw parts entry to finished wash, dry, and presentation to final assembly. The solution features numerous automation integration techniques, from floor hopper feeders for parts entry, guage station with accept/reject gate, parts orientors and re-orientors, a caster-mounted bent bed conveyor, our unique tri-belt gentle storage buffer, complete wash/dry system, and a center-island operator control panel featuring diagnostic meassage display and auto/manual diagnostic controls.
|
 |
LargeForgingsRobotics.pdf
In this robotics integration example, a circular, array-type configuration of multiple processing machines was designed around a smart robot arm for the manipulation and feeding of extremely heaving forgings to the various processing machines. The robotic arm is tooled with a pneumatic 3-jaw gripper and hardened finger tooling to grasp each of the two parts from both top and bottom. The programming features enable the robot to 'know' which of the processing stations are clear in order to place the next part. Parts are fed to the robot via dual chain/dual track conveyors that include an orientation nest and sensor for the robot to determine part position. Parts exit the automated processing area on a common powered conveyor to the wash operation.
|
 |
SmallPartsRobotics.pdf
This manufacturing environment needed an efficient automation system to pattern-package small parts, in this instance bearings, at a very high flow rate. The objective was accomplished at a rate of 120 parts per minute with an ABB robotic arm equipped with a S4C cntroller and indexing dial table. Oriented parts are fed to the robotic arm pick-up point by a simple conveyor mechanism. The indexing table hold 16 boxes doube positioned in the queue.
|
 |
AdditiveTankSystem.pdf
The Additive Tank System featured in this brochure is a large, 10 tank unit for dispensing additives to a powdered metal mix tank. Each tank contains a different additive, the outlet for each is fitted with a manal iris vale for operator dispensing to the mix tank. The mix tank is mounted on a rail mounted cart with a weight scale. Roller conveyors running along the face of the tanks allow the operator to roll bags of additives to each tank for loading. Tanks 9 - 10 are brought to the operator in a drum elevator fitted with a slip seal hood and hydraulic lift. The dumper cradle is totally enclosed, fitted with a top cover surrounding the dischorge cone assembly, a pneumatically operated iris valve, and an electrically interlocked hinged door at the load position. Capacity: 6,000 pounds.
|
 |
InspectionAndPackaging.pdf
This brochure illustrates the packaging portion of a system that handles multiple diameter cylindrical parts. Packing boxes are brought to the load station on a powered conveyor and discharged on a roller conveyor for operator off-load after packing. The parts are brought to the station from multiple process machines, having been dispensed by an escapement in various quantities specific to the particular package being run. A swing-arm style pick and place unit picks up the batches of parts and pattern-places them in the packages. The package is cradled in a two axis servo-controlled slide after escapement from the powered conveyor, and moved to the discharge roller conveyor and transfered.
|
 |
ShaftProcessingUnit.pdf
In this example, raw tubing is stored, elevated, fed to two separate feed paths, and end-registered without end-cropping to a cut-off unit for the manufacturing of couplings, bearing blanks, and various shaft-type products. The integrated pick and place unit removes cut-off blanks from the saw chuch and places them directly into the chucks of the next process machine.
|
 |
ForgingsFeeder.pdf
This is an example of a automated unit feeding and loading a forgings press at 20 piece per minute flow rate. An extra-heaving storage elevator receives parts from a drop-bottom stock box. Parts are elevated on demand from a level sensor, tracked to a guage station and released to a live feed belt conveyor. Forgings are transfered to the jaws of the mechanical pick and place unit that loads the press. A sensor at the press discharge chute checks that the part is properly ejected before loading the next part.
|
|
|