The fully automated plant at Daimler AG’s Berlin engine factory produces cams for downstream camshaft production and also carries out quality control.
Technical Details
Project | Camshaft production at Daimler AG in Berlin plant |
Installation | - Separation of the cams, checking and aligning with cameras
- Automation of 6 rotary / milling machines
- Storing the processed cams in wire baskets, and piling the wire baskets in a basket storage for decoupling the follow-up plants
- Automation of an induction hardening machine and storing the cams in a cooling tunnel
- Hardness and crack testing for the 100% inspection of the cams
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Controls | - 4x SINUMERIK 840D sl
- 2x SIMATIC S7-300 with IM151-8F PN/DP-CPU
- 1x KUKA KR5
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Features | - Cameras for sorting and orientation of the cams
- Data acquisition MDE / PDA
- Provision of production data for the product life cycle file PLA
- On-the-fly change of types and batches
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