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A well known appliance manufacturer was looking for an automated system to position the glass cook top on a stove. They were experiencing high scrap cost and damaging the base units from the existing process.
The assembly process was critical to the appearance of the cook top. End users expected a tight fit between the base unit and glass top to restrict spills from seeping between the two and becoming a major cleaning burden. As a result, the appliance manufacturer monitored the offsets required to properly align the top and base together to reduce scrap and reduce rework.
Cook top insertion process:
- A structure-mounted sensor measured the top opening on the base unit
- A gripper-mounted sensor on a robot moved to the glass top pallet to measure the glass dimensions
- The measurements were used to calculate an offset to position the glass top within the base unit
- After the cook top was released, another set of sensors inspected the gap in two corners
- Offset values and gap results are written to a database for analysis, reporting and archive
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