Cam production at Daimler, Berlin

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

Controls

  • 4x SINUMERIK 840D sl
  • 2x SIMATIC S7-300 with IM151-8F PN/DP-CPU
  • 1x KUKA KR5

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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