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Swabbing Robot

Combines Productivity and Operator Safetythe next step in to the automatisation

in the glass industry

2015

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Introduction

• Heye works with partners on the implementation of

a swabbing robot in the production process.

• First two installations have been successfully implemented

in two high speed lines at an Ardagh plant and are currently

in permanent operation.

• The second robot is much smaller than the first version.

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Version 1 Version 2

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Customer benefits

• No container rejects after swabbing

• No necessity to use swabbing program

• 75% savings on lubricant

• High safety for operators

• Stable and repeatable volume thickness and location of

swabbing agent in the process.

• More time for operators to focus on optimization and

defect correction.

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Version 2

• Interface adaptation of robot to IS timing system

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Head

• left and right spray nozzle

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Spraying

• no influence or disturbance of production flow

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Highlights of latest version

• Robot is smaller, 25 kg instead of 125 kg

• Optimized cable guide design on Heye machines

• Safety cage

• Zero station

• Clean design

• Several parking places

• Left and right blank swabbing

• special program to spray neck ring

• Possible monitoring from IS-operator room

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Beam

• Gear rack

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Beam with parking positions

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3

2

• Example of 20 section machine; tandem 2 x 10 section

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New safety cage

• Compact design and signal lamps

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Zero station

• maintenance position area

outside the machine for job

change alignment and

programming of the

swabbing robot with HMI

touch screen

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!