Inlac (UK) wins order from Airflow

Inlac (UK) wins order from Airflow

Keywords: Airflow, Robots, Paint application

Inlac (UK) of Warwick has won an order approaching £1 million from Airflow Streamlines to supply an Automated Cab Painting System for their Northampton facility. Airflow manufacture and final finish complete assembly cabs for earthmoving machinery, for customers such as JCB and Caterpillar.

With a desire to improve the product quality and through-put of the spray booths, while complying fully with the latest environmental legislation, Airflow has invested in two DÏrr Ecopaint robots. The automatic paint spraying process,together with a precision paint flow metering system, will ensure a consistent and accurately applied paint film build, resulting in quality production and cost-effective paint utilisation.

Initial ROBCAD studies have been successfully conducted to prove the process capability prior to concluding the final process layout designs. Inlac's Modular Build capability at the DÏrr Group's facility in Germany has allowed a simulation to be run of the spraying process to reduce possible application problems prior to installation on-site.

The installation began in late September 1999.

As the general industries division of the Durr Group, Inlac (UK) works with both suppliers to the automotive industry and non-automotive sectors.

For further information contact Martin Cresswell at Inlac (UK), Broxwell Close, Warwick CV34 5QF, UK. Tel: (+44) 01926 418800; Fax: (+44) 01926 400679.