Application: Process, Assembly, and Vision Inspection System
Industry: Automotive
Customer product is a valve stem seal used in engines. The customer needed to trim rubber, assemble spring, and inspect parts for defects.
Solara Automation designed a system to feed parts, load them on an indexing dial, cut the excess rubber, and assemble the spring. The parts were rotated at various stations for cutting and inspection of all sides. A 7-camera vision inspection system was required to inspect for spring integrity, part height, trim depth, non-fill, over-fill, pinholes, and chipped edges. Additionally, each part was verified to have the correct letter code molded into the rubber. Reject parts were sorted into different bins by type of defect.
