Since 2008, our customers have created over a thousand jobs
through improved paint finishing, opened new facilities, expanded existing
ones, and brought hundreds of millions in production
to the USA.
Improved paint finishing operations have added greater
than a billion dollar value to their businesses. The average
NAPaint project ROI is less than 5 months. Annual
benefit can exceed tens of millions.
NAPaint Robot Program Conversion
NAPaint offers a service - possibly unique to the marketplace - to
convert existing production programs to and from ABB and FANUC paint robots
with virtually any new or existing tool hardware or robot configuration. All robot positions and paint application process parameters can be
carried over to the target platform. Tracking, timing, joint speeds, applicator orientation and
painting speed, head to target distance,
overlaps, paint flow rates, air pressures, and high voltage levels
can remain unchanged from the original process - subject to the
hardware and software limitations of the robots and installation.
The
following example shows a tracking application for 2 ABB IRB5400
painters with IRC5P controllers converted from one left-hand and
one right-hand Fanuc P-250ia with R-J30ia controllers. The
paint applicator changes from the Fanuc Bell to the ABB
RB1000. For full effect, feel free to open the simulations
in separate windows playing side by side.
ABB IRB5402 with IRC5P
Controller
Fanuc P-250ia with
R-30ia Controller
What
is so critical about accurate program conversion?
When adding, upgrading, or replacing paint robots, the migration of
existing production robot programs is an important
consideration. It can be extremely costly, time consuming, and
risky
to redevelop production programming and automation. Downtime
is required. Quality will be
affected. Productivity will change. Parts may require
resubmission for approvals. Even if you are extremely
dissatisfied with your current robot make, model, or system and more
reliable and efficient systems and equipment are available in the
marketplace, the migration of existing programming from one platform
to another may be the deciding factor in any decision.
Program
conversions can also be simulated in advance, confirming the
appropriate selection and location of new equipment.
Existing Facilities
In
facilities that have multiple paint booths that use
different make and models of paint robots, program and
hardware compatibility issues often prevent one booth from running
the normal production of the other booth, even when this
flexibility is very valuable, for example, when one booth is
down or line capacity becomes an issue.
Feel
free to give
me a call to discuss . . . Joe @ (708) 980-3758.
