AUTOMATED DEBURRING SOLUTION FOR ATLAS COPCO
Atlas Copco, a world leader in pneumatic and electrical power products, have installed a Guyson designed robotically
controlled bead blasting finishing cell for lightly deburring and cosmetically finishing a range of machined rotors and shafts.
Guyson's brief was to produce a precise and flexible system that could automatically process a wide range of different sized
components, with the ability to accommodate new designs in the future. Component sizes can range from 40 to 120 mm to length.
To achieve these objectives, the proven Guyson Multiblast® RXS900 rotary table indexing blast finishing system is placed at the heart of the cell.
Multiple quantities of the components are placed within pallets and then conveyor fed into a precise location in front of the RXS900
blast cabinet. From this point, a robot with a six axis, three fingered gripper removes a component from the pallet and places it on
to the blast spindle. This will then index through a series of work stations where a combination of fixed position, vertically traversing
and pneumatically height adjustable blast guns, that are already in position for that product option, give the component the required finish.
Once the blasting and air washing operation is completed, the same robot removes the component and places it into an unload pallet situated
on an exit conveyor. The cycle continues automatically until the all components on the pallet have been processed.
Full PLC control via an HMI allows each component identity to be logged in the menu structure. This means that the robotic
operation, load/unload pattern, blast cycle and gun configuration can be automatically recalled for many different sized components,
giving the whole system total flexibility.
