Further Machine Spotlights – 40 years of Engineering Excellence (Page 4)
Further examples from TQC’s project portfolio, spanning four decades and multiple industry sectors. Each system reflects the engineering principles that underpin the work we do today.
If you’re assessing automation, test, or production improvement requirements, get in touch to discuss your project and explore relevant examples from our portfolio.
- Robotic packing and Bagging System (supplied in 2015)
- Fully automatic robot cell for packing parts into cardboard carriers, filled carriers bagged automatically with final bag heat sealing.
- Challenge: Fully automatic, no human interaction, zip lock style bags requirement, high uptime.
- Solution:
- Clean room application
- Bespoke bag handling, with complex bag opening, loading and heat sealing
- Robotic part handling
- Fully guarded system
- PLC control.
- Impact:
- Fully automated production
- Zero contamination process
- High throughput system to meet production volumes
- Rugby Ball Valve Leak Test Solution (supplied in 2022)
- Cost effective valve leak test unit with manual load and unload
- Challenge: Testing to ensure valves maintain ball pressure throughout match play while allowing data collection sensors to operate.
- Solution:
- Standard Series 10 based bench top leak tester
- Multi-application-leak-tester (MALT)
- Toggle clamp actuated top tooling
- Bespoke bottom nest to accommodate irregular valve geometry
- 100 parts per hour capability
- Impact:
- Time and labour saving solution with repeatable operations
- Easy load and unload
- Quality assurance with small leak rate detection
- Solar Tube Production Equipment including Helium Leak Testing (supplied in 2010)
- Multiple machines for testing, assembly and testing of solar vacuum collectors
- Challenge: Integration of equipment into a new facility ensuring leak tight, functional units are produced
- Solution:
- 6 standalone machines, each with dedicated PLC control and machine guarding
- Helium leak testing using mass spectrometers
- Induction heating process for gas burnoff
- Ultrasonic and TIG welding to seal parts
- Final test with assemblies exposed to Short Wave IR to simulate intense sunlight
- Impact:
- Multi-stage production with non fault forward philosophy
- Size variant handling
- Safe and quality assured production
- Automotive Speaker Welding Fixtures (supplied in 2017)
- Semi automatic solution for joining two automotive trim parts together to form speaker grille
- Challenge: Handed product variants, handling high quality plastic moulding with zero marking of faces, presence checking of features
- Solution:
- Proven desktop fixture conceot with self guarding drawers
- Controlled heat staking of features
- Presence sensing of trim features
- Electrical check of LED operation
- PLC control.
- Impact:
- Time and labour saving solution with repeatable operations
- Easy change and adjustable tooling
- Safe and simple loading and unloading
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