Runs the assembly sequence
The robot picks each component and places it against the base part in the order and orientation agreed for the product.
Assembly and insertion systems.
An assembly system brings components together in a planned sequence against a fixtured base part. Where a part is pressed or snapped in rather than dropped in, the system works to a force instead of to a fixed position.
What does an assembly-and-insertion system do?
An assembly-and-insertion system presents components, locates the base part, and completes each placement or press-fit in a planned sequence.
Seats parts to a force
For press, snap, and interference fits the system drives until the part seats, then checks the force it took.
Records the result
A force trace or presence check confirms each insertion, so a bad fit is caught at the station.
What does an assembly-and-insertion system include?
The system combines the robot, insertion tooling, component feeding, base-part fixture, and checks that confirm the assembly. Each part follows the component and product requirements.
Robot and insertion tooling
The robot, gripper, and insertion tool, with a changer where more than one component needs a different grip.
Component feeding and fixture
How each component is presented, and what holds the base part while the rest goes into it.
Force sensing and checking
The sensor or camera that confirms the assembly, and the route a failed part takes.
How the system is specified
The system is designed around the components, base part, insertion force, feeding method, fixture, quality check, and planned product variants.
- Robot type and model
- Collaborative or industrial, decided by the components, the required cycle, and the guarding assessment.
- Payload and reach
- Set by the component weight plus the tool, and by the working envelope the fixture creates.
- Force control
- Specified where a part is pressed, snapped, or seated rather than simply placed.
- Component feeding
- Bowl feeder, tray, rack, or operator presentation, specified separately for each component.
- Fixture and part assumptions
- What holds the base part, and the incoming tolerance range the fixture is designed to accept.
When assembly and insertion is a good fit
Check the components, base-part fixture, insertion method, feeding, quality check, and how product variants are handled.
- Components
- How many separate parts go into one assembly, and how does each arrive today?
- Fit type
- Is it a loose drop-in fit, or a press, snap, or interference fit?
- Tolerance
- How consistent are the incoming parts, and how often does one not fit by hand?
- Checking
- What confirms the assembly is right, and what happens to a failure?
FAQs
Common questions about automated assembly and insertion.
How many components can one station handle?
The component count drives the cost more than the cycle time does, because each part needs its own way of being presented. Beyond a handful it becomes a line, and should be planned as one.
Do you supply the feeders?
Feeders for the components in the quote are part of the scope. Feeders added later are a separate item, so send the component list early.
What happens to a failed assembly?
It goes to a reject route and the result is recorded. If you want it repaired at the station instead, that is scoped explicitly.
Can it build more than one variant?
Usually within a family. The limit is the fixture and the feeding, not the robot.
Other systems in this category
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Return on investment
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