On-Line Robotic Sanding of Polymer Panels

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Del Bosco, Angelo, author.

Conference Name:

Southern Automotive Manufacturing Conference & Exposition (1998-08-11 : Nashville, Tennessee, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1998

Summary:

Part of the process for manufacturing polymer panels for exterior vehicle skin involves removing, forming, and sanding panel parting lines. This function is critical due to customer appearance expectations and painting requirements. Several issues including ergonomic and environmental concerns have made automation of this process attractive. Applying parting line design changes and force control technology, a robotic system has been developed to perform this finishing operation automatically. The benefits of this process include part to part consistency, a fifty percent reduction in cycle time and significant process cost reductions

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Vendor supplied data

Publisher Number:

982090

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license