Bumper Inspection System

Control screen for bumpers

Description of the project:
Automatic control and monitoring of the bumper production department:
- Automatic bumper type recognition 
- Online system overview 
- Automatic colour change in paint stations 
- Recording and streaming out of all NOK carriers 
- Automatic streaming out for all carriers for stripping 
- Tracking and storage of all data 
- Recording of OK or NOK flamed bumper

Advantages of the system:
- Manpower economies (6 men / day)
- Faster, more precise make-up of injection batches 
- Online tracking of production data (OEE, DTD)
- More efficient stock management of unworked components (bumper hall)
- 100% tracking of the flaming system 
- More efficient stock management of painted parts (stock depletion)
- Automatic carrier outstreaming for stripping (History)
- More efficient use of production system (insourcing) 
- Easy creation of additional model parts
- Online colour changes (time-saving of 2 hours)
- Cost per unit can be determined more precisely

Automation Elements:
- Engineering en Follow-up
- Electrical Diagrams
- Electrical Boards
- Electrical Installation
- Programming and Commissioning

Technical Specifications 
- Main Control PLC : Beckhoff Twincat soft PLC 
- Sub-system PLC’s : Siemens S7 en S5 
- RF Tag System : AEG 
- Number of Tags : Ca. 800 (carriers) 
- Network : Ethernet TCP/IP 
- Bus System : Profibus 
- Visualisation : Visual Basic 
- Dbase Management : SQL server

End customer : Ford Genk