Customer Requirement
Our customer is a manufacturer of hurricane-proof sheds. These sheds consist of a wood frame construction with aluminum wall and roof panels, windows, doors, and other attachments.
The project goal was to eliminate a high percentage of the labor associated with screwing the wall and roof panels to the wooden frame.
Machine Performance
MESH’s solution included two robots with screw guns to feed and screw down the wall and roof panels to the stud frame. The frames arrive in the cell via floor conveyor. Operators secure the panels to the frame prior to their arrival in the assembly cell. The robots use pre-planned recipes and coordinates to move and screw down the panels.
Allowances are made for window and door openings. The robots reach over 90% of the largest wall and nearly all smaller wall areas. The robots are mounted to steel baseplates and riser assemblies, with the infeed conveyor and screw supply units nearby. The wall or roof sections are fed to a starting position and indexed by the conveyor after completing each section.
Once a section of the wall or roof is complete, it is powered out of the cell via floor conveyor.
Automation Equipment
- Two YASKAWA GP70L 6-axis robots
- End-of-arm tool specifically engineered for this application, including automatic screw guns with two screw feeding systems
- PLC and HMI control system
