The engineers at Descher Automation have designed and built automated assembly systems for a wide variety of products. This featured machine inserts radial ball-bearings and dust-seals into vee-belt pulleys. With each cycle, an operator manually loads a molded-plastic pulley to the indexing dial-plate, and the pulley runs through three presses (two pneumatic and 1 ultrasonic) to complete the assembly. The bearings and seals are bulk-fed through vibratory bowls and inline tracks, and the finished pulleys are transferred from the index dial to an exit conveyor by a cam-driven electromagnetic pick-and-place.

Key Features:

• Pressure and position monitoring of final press
• Tracking and collection of press feedback data
• Light-curtain safety monitoring of the pulley-loading area
• Intuitive and comprehensive operator message display
• Monitoring and operator feedback on bulk-feed systems

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