A wholly owned subsidiary of Vulcan Engineering Co. Alabama, USA
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Richards
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A wholly owned subsidiary of Vulcan Engineering Co. Alabama, USA |
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Automated Wax Pattern Assembly & Welding Cell.
| Investment Casting | Wax Welding | Wax assembly | Sticky wax | Lost wax process | Slurry tanks | Fluid bed sanders | Rainfall sanders | Barrel sanders | Drying systems | Wax room | De-humidifiers | Control systems | Robots | Management PLC | Boiler clave | Cut-off cells | Fettling equipment | Casting track | Vulcan Europe | Wax Pattern | Wax Pattern | Deflashing | Deburring | Medical Implants | Casting Cut off | Casting Finishing | Foxall IC |
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TOTAL CONCEPT ENGINEERING
With a "Total concept" designed and engineered Investment Casting Facility by the Vulcan team, you can feel more confident that your investment casting project will remain on budget and start on time with the Vulcan team working as an extension of your engineering department. The experience of the Vulcan Project Engineering managers do make the difference.
AUTOMATED
WAX PATTERN
ASSEMBLY & WELDING FOR INVESTMENT
CASTINGS.
Vulcan
Engineering Co. (Vulcan Europe - Richards Engineering Inc.) have developed a
technique that fully automates the Wax pattern assembly process. Traditionally,
skilled operatives have placed and welded the individual wax parts onto the
running systems, and whilst individual operators skills may be considered
adequate, consistency and quality is totally reliant on subjective decisions.
This manual technique is relatively slow in comparison to the Vulcan automated
robotic system.
ROBOTIC WAX
PATTERN ASSEMBLY
The
Vulcan automated process comprises of: - a Vision system that identifies the
parts and orientation, a Robot that picks up single or
multiple wax parts from an infeed device or conveyor, these parts are then
applied to a temperature controlled hot plate or a sticky wax dip tank . The robot then moves quickly and accurately
to position the wax parts onto the running system and applies them with a
precise pressure. The running system can be automatically indexed into other
orientations so that additional wax parts can be applied to other areas of the
same running system.
AUTOMATIC
WAX WELDING
After
accurate location of the wax parts, (to within +- 0.5 mm) the robot then uses a
pinpoint micro flame to weld & effectively fuse the wax parts to the running
system thus ensuring that there are no joints left unsealed to allow ingress of
slurry at the later shell dipping stage to include the wax. This welding/sealing
by the robot is very fast with the transitions and change of directions very
smooth. This technique produces very strong and extremely consistent weld roots
free from any pooling effects that would normally be produced by a manual
operation during welding. Welds produced by the robot are consistent and
subsequently stronger than the gate area.
FUEL
FROM WATER
Vulcan
Europe will design the jigs and tooling and compliant grippers necessary for the customers wax parts,
and the unit is supplied fully programmed and test run on customer's wax parts
before dispatch. Typical assembly times for the robot wax welder is:-- 100
seconds to assemble and weld 20 in gates with a total convoluted welded length
of 2.2m.
In
operation the cell attendant simply loads the wax parts and running systems onto
the infeed devices or conveyor, and removes the completed cluster from the out
feed device or conveyor. The whole system is guarded by mesh or Plexiglas
screens and fully safety interlocked to prevent unauthorized access.
The
attendant has ample time to inspect record and ensure quality during the
production cycle. The utilization of a robot for wax part assembly process
ensures consistency, accuracy and high-speed welding, significantly increasing
wax cluster quality and production rates. In addition, as the wax parts are now
accuracy located, robotic automation of the abrasive cut off of the finished
casting can be considered if appropriate.
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Last updated 27 February 2007
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