Star Automation Europe in its booth simulates a production environment

The company Star Automation Europe will get the attention of the visitors with a stand in which, among others, will create an area that simulates a fully automated production area. It will show some of the equipment of this company in action.

The focal point of the Star Automation Europe stand at K'2004 is the automation of a complete cell production and transport of a product for daily use, through a series of teams that, as a whole exaltarán the virtues of Star.

Automation cell consists of molding by injection of a piece designed by Star, a kind of slide or wallet, using the technology of labelling within the mold (IML) to insert the logo of Star in one of the faces of the piece. The cell just completing the piece with other components, unless the final piece is transported to the area of distribution of visitors by means of a fully automated system.

For the insertion of the tag through the IML technique and the simultaneous extraction of the castings used a robot Cartesian model Ixe 1000 equipped with Stec 470 control. The pieces are deposited with the fuel transfer of 100 tonnes of clamping force, where an anthropomorphic robot inserts two rubber feet slip taken from an adjacent warehouse. After the process of inclusion of these feet, the same robot positions the pieces in a container model F-70, ideal for this application for its lightness, clean, easy to be stacking and stored and easy transport to the area of distribution.

The transport of containers with the finished pieces is done by line automatic model Cyber Conveyor System (Cyber-transit system). It's a new philosophy of automation of production plants designed by Star to solve the problem of the transport of production lines to the warehouse. The Cyber Conveyor line is based on a modular structure raised to a height of 3.5 meters to allow free access to the stand. Its total length is approximately 15 meters. Booth tries to resemble as much as possible an environment of production, transport and deposition of the molded parts.

Near the area of distribution to visitors, the pieces are downloaded automatically of the line by a Cartesian robot, model Gxe-600, and they are positioned on a conveyor, series Sec Conveyor, to be transferred to a zone of free access with full security. Empty containers automatically return to the loading area, moving in the opposite direction on the same line Cyber and spent simply by a less than full container path.

The stand is completed with exposure of superveloz robot model Zxe-1000, with features such as speed, acceleration and precision, particularly fits the sector of packaging applications. A pump of lava flows of the new SP-IVF series and numerous components of the Division "Chuck and Components" of Star Automation complete the exhibition.