The new centre represents a highly advanced automated painting solution as a result of collaboration between the centre’s owners Peak Contracts, along with Yaskawa and paint supplier Graco.
The centre is said to offer the flexibility of a full turnkey solution for those requiring either a new automated facility, or the ability to upgrade to a current manual or automatic installation, and enables customers to apply both solvent and water-based paints using Yaskawa Motoman’s painting robot and the Graco ProBell.
An important focus of the technical centre is its support of the full turnkey approach. This includes: painting robots, electrostatics, rotary atomisers, air guns, up to 3k auto mix, paint mix and supply, complete booths, conveyor systems, 3D programming, safety planning and ATEX. Also, it can be used to provide customer training in all aspects of automated painting, from mixing and paint supply, through to robot programming and maintenance.
The engineers at Peak Contracts will work with 3D offline programming to understand the Yaskawa Motoman robot requirement in terms of reach and available cycle time. The 3D models, which can be imported into Yaskawa MotoSim, enable rapid reach studies and robot programming. This enables customers to choose from the wide range of Yaskawa robots to ensure the most suitable and cost-effective solution for each application.
Peak Contracts offer full paint trials in the new centre and working together with paint supply companies and the customer means that the full set of painting parameters can be tested helping to establish film builds, appearance and laydowns of the desired coating.
Comments UK sales & marketing manager Jonny Grey: “Yaskawa Motoman offers manufacturers a wide range of robotic solutions for today’s automated paint finishing applications as demonstrated by this successful collaboration with Peak Contracts and their paint delivery partner Graco”.