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Perfectly polished
DGC axes feedthe brush
magazine from the magazine set-
up to the processing station.
Austria // Cleaning the inside of tall, narrow glasses or bottles is not an
easy task. Polishing and deburring the insides of narrow pipes is even
trickier. Tyrolean company EM-Technik has developed the ideal solution,
which features components from Festo at every processing step. Semi-rotary
drive DRRD, stroke cylinder DGSL and parallel gripper HGPD are used to
feed the pipes.
To process the pipes, small brass brushes are
picked up automatically using three-jaw
grippers and guided through the pipe with
vertical movements. They are then alternately
rotated in a clockwise and anti-clockwise
direction. At this and all downstream
processing stations, electric toothed belt
axes ELGR with stepper motors EMMS
ensure perfect precision in motion
sequences along the Z-axis. An additional
station is reserved for smaller quantities for
special designs. With these variants, part of
the outer contour also needs to be
processed. An electric cylinder type EPCO
ensures that the tool is precisely tilted until it
reaches the required angle. A toothed belt
axis ELGA aligns the entire station to
compensate for the tilting movement.
Photo: © EM-Technik
In brief
News from around the world
Suzhou, China
In a joint initiative, Festo Didactic SE and
Suzhou Industrial Park Human Resources
Development Co., Ltd. (SIPHRD) have
developed a learning centre for providing
training to specialists from the China-
Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).
There are 5,000 companies based at the
SIP. Half of them are international
companies – among them global players
including Audi, Logitech, Apple and Bosch.
A total of 710,000 specialists and managers
work at the SIP.
Youtube, worldwide
With the new YouTube video series
“service2see”, Festo is providing a support
tool for service technicians and engineers in
the areas of maintenance, commissioning
and configuration.
The online tutorials show, for example, how
to replace the toothed belt of an EGC axis or
how to update the firmware of the Festo
Configuration Tool. The channel was
launched with around two dozen tutorials in
German and English and will be gradually
extended. The objective is to create a
YouTube library that covers the topics and
questions that the Festo Technical Customer
Hotline are asked most frequently.
At your fingertips: on our YouTube
channel Festo Service, you will
find practical and user-friendly
video tutorials on frequently asked
questions and topics.
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