Automation Equipment - Customized Assembly and Placement Solutions for Multiple Parts

Shibuya Hoppmann Corporation has creatively designed hundreds of continuous motion, indexing, semi-automated and part placement systems during the past few decades. Our custom automated assembly systems are designed by our highly qualified mechanical and electrical engineers, who have successfully tackled some of the most complex and difficult packaging challenges in the automated assembly marketplace.

Many of our customized solutions have contributed to our customer's ability to introduce new products into the ever-changing markets! Whether it's a Capping Turret, 2- or 3- piece Deodorant Assembly System, Part Placement Equipment, or other type of custom automated machinery, SHC will mutually establish performance criteria to create a unique approach to your needs.

Manufacturing automation equipment is our business. Learn more about our systems by reviewing a few of the applications for parts handling below:

Deodorant Assembly System

We were tasked with assembling multiple plastic deodorant canister parts into a combined product that could be filled and capped. Three individual parts centrifugal feed systems were used to singulate, orient and convey screws, bases and platforms to an automated continuous motion assembly turret. In the turret, the three parts were combined, using tooling modules that held, screwed and merged the individual plastic parts together, and various inspection stations throughout the automated process verified the completeness of the assembly.
This process allowed us to design and manufacture the complete turnkey production line with special emphasis on maintenance accessibility, simple operation, quiet, gentle handling, and complete automation. There were no vibratory components in this Shibuya Hoppmann continuous motion assembly system, eliminating the need for special sound enclosures.

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Deodorant Screw Feeder System	Deodorant Base Feed System	Deodorant Twist-up Assembly Turret
Deodorant Twist-up Tooling Module	Completed Assembly Exit

DeodTwist App Sheet (PDF-3.19MB)

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Push-Pull Water Bottle Spout/Cap Assembly System

A plastic closure manufacturing company needed a more efficient way to feed, orient, and assemble three-piece sports bottle caps at a high production rate. This continuous motion assembly system included a cap leak-test inspection station and height inspection for maximum efficiency, and was capable of feeding, orienting and assembling these three parts at rates over 500 parts per minute. This allowed our client an economical sports cap assembly system resulting in substantial production cost savings combined with a flexible design and extremely limited down.

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Spout Feed System	Overcap Feed System	Pourer Base Assembly Infeed
Dust Cover Infeed Assembly	Push-Pull Water Cap Inspection

3-Piece Sports Cap Assembly System (PDF-484KB)

Bagel Feed/Count/Batch System

Our Frozen Bagel Feed/Count/Batch system was designed to feed, singulate, count and batch different sizes of frozen bagels. The bagels were taken from bulk and deposited on a special dual belt prefeeder and released into a food grade parts feeder. An HMI touch screen operator control package is included and was created with easy recipe changeover. The parts feeder tooling created a single-stream line of bagels exiting the centrifugal feeder into a conveyor. The bagels were spaced and passed through an inspection station, into a count and batch chute. When a predetermined amount of bagels accumulate in one side of the hopper, a diverter arm shifts, and bagels are directed into the other side of the batch unit. A door beneath the bagels opens and bagels are released into boxes.
The completely stainless steel constructed system, with FDA/USDA approved heavy gauge ABS plastic centrifugal feeder disc and food grade vinyl nitrale matting for gentle handling of the frozen bagels helped create an efficient, reliable parts handling system for this manufacturer. This style placement system ran at over 400 parts per minute.

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Frozen Bagel Prefeeder	Bagel Centrifugal Feeder	Bagel Batching system

 Bagel Feed/Count Batch System (PDF - 397KB)

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Two-Piece Spout-Cap Assembly System

A major household products manufacturer needed a system that would assemble pour spout collars to its component cap at an output rate of 300 parts per minute. The assembled unit must not exceed a predetermined torque when assembled, and must meet the assembled part height inspection to ± 0.015". Shibuya Hoppmann designed and built a system using simple and efficient means: two uniquely tooled centrifugal parts feeders, integrated conveyors, a 20 head continuous motion assembly turret, and inspection sensors.Quick change tooling modules were provided with the system for alternate parts.

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Detergent Spout Feed System	Overcap Conveying System	Spout-to-Cap Assembly Turret
Detergent Spout-cap Assembly

 2011 2Pc Cap App Sheet (PDF - 450KB)

Lip Balm Assembly System

A major personal care products manufacturer needed a system that would assemble a three-part lip balm container at a rate of 450 parts per minute. The screw portion of the assembly needed to be threaded up through the platform, secured and inspected.

Shibuya Hoppmann Corporation incorporated different elements to gently assembly small, intricate parts into a moveable unit. We used methods that are simple and efficient. The system provides accessibility to equipment in both floor plan and feeder elevation, allowing easy maintenance.

The objective of this system was to take lip balm containers, screws and platforms from bulk, feed and orient them in rotary feeders, and send them to a continuous motion turret for assembly. Each of the parts is bulk loaded into the hoppers of the elevating prefeeders of each sorting system. They are then metered and deposited into the center reservoir of each rotary unscrambler. Product is singulated and oriented for delivery to their corresponding conveyors. The screw and platform are introduced to the assembly turret via infeed transfer wheels at different levels. The platform is positioned in the uppermost nest, and the screw is placed in a lower nest. The container, or body of the lip balm, enters the turret via a zigzag track and series of beveled transfer wheels, which help position, the container vertically in a middle nest of the turret. In the continuous motion assembly turret, the three parts are assembled together, inspected, and released.

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Lip Balm Assembly Overview	Lip Balm Twist-up Assembly	Lip Balm Tooling Module
Elevator Base Barrel Assembly

Lip Balm Assembly (PDF-2.44MB)

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