News: 31/07/2003

GAROLL DELIVERS A NEW GLAZING UNIT TO ROCA, GAVA', SPAIN.

Garoll Srl, leader enterprise in the sanitaryware automation sector, has delivered at the end of july a robotized glazing unit toRoca, Gavà plant (Spain).
This unit, when fully operative, glazes 600 pieces per shift, for a total of 1800 daily pieces on three shifts; the pieces can vary independentyl from closets, tanks with or withour lids, washbasins and columns, giving a heterogeneity imprint to this same unit.
The productive unit composes of two inspection booths , two robots and a glazing booth with antropomorphous robot . The two inspection booths have the characteristic of versatility, since that it can be chosen at any time whether to fettle two pieces at once or two times per piece.
The fact that the unit can glaze up to 600 different pieces per shift is due to the automation subordinated to the glazing phase. It is the glazing robot that sets the pace of the productivity, so guaranteeing 100% operativity and eliminates any dead times during this last phase. This unit is, therefore, handed out with a buffer for under-rim glazed or after-fettling pieces positioned on it by the robot, which means that other specific requested manipulations can be made before the glazing phase begins.
A peculiar characteristic of this unit is the capacity to handle glaze coatings depending upon the piece code. Practically, some pieces can be glazed with only one coat, others with two, etc. This service is impossible to be done on traditional lines with only one robot without inefficiency of the same.
Thanks to handling robots, all asserving mechanisms that were a mechanical and electronical problem (provoking an inevitable loss in operative efficiency of the glazing line) were eliminated, therefore giving to the line a primary mechanical simplicity. This also gives a notable flexibility that cannot be found in traditional glazing lines.
Among other advantages of the line, there is the foot cleaning device on the exit conveyor belt, the fact that there is only one loading point with an operator and one unloading point, and, as last, the modularity of the line, which gives installation facility and ease in future layout modifications.

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