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Lip Balm Assembly System
Problem
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.
Implementation
Shibuya Hoppmann Corporation designed a unique system which incorporates 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.
Results
Shibuya Hoppmann designed this turnkey production line with special emphasis on maintenance accessibility, gentle handling, and quiet operation. There are no components in Shibuya Hoppmann’s continuous motion parts handling systems which need special sound enclosures.
Process:
The objective of this system was to take lip balm containers, screws and platforms from bulk, feed and orient them, and send them to an continuous motion turret for assembly. The parts are bulk loaded into the hoppers of the elevating prefeeders of each feed system. They are then metered and deposited into the center reservoir of each feeder. 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. During the assembly process the platform is picked up out of the nest by an assembly module. The module travels along a cam and lowers the platform into the container. Then the container/platform sub-assembly is lowered over the screw tip, capturing the screw. The screw sits on a spin head, which rotates at the same time the container/platform sub-assembly is lowered. The container/platform/screw assembly is snapped together, and the complete assembly is inspected and released.
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