Greenheck’s Advanced HMI System: The Key to Streamlined and Automated Operations

Having a recipe system for the carriers for our products is very important particularly because it is the most streamlined option available. We want it to be ease of use and ease of access for all of our team members without having to go through specific training. So this is our system overview. We're standing right now between the load and unload. We take our products through the certain pain carrier strategy, we load them onto the pain line based off the recipe. Once we load those production orders in, they'll go down and around into this middle area and do a hundred and eighty degree turnaround into the auto wash. So a five stage auto wash system, it'll take those metals, strip it all the way down off, take reduce all the dust, grease, and grime to where there's nothing but just bare metal. It'll then go into the dry off oven. The production will come up to about a hundred and fifty, hundred and seventy five degrees to burn up all that residual oil and chemical. And then it'll go into our key room and then our paint booth. We have our first paint booth, which is our robot paint booth. We have two robots that are divided by FANUC. The entire paint system is provided by Norton. The second paint booth is our touch up. Typically, our ratio is about ninety five percent where everything's automated, and five percent of that is touch up or manually covered. Once all quality checks have been made in our manual, it'll then go into our CURE oven. Oven. Now this inner loop here is another opportunity for us to expand into different types of products that require a two coat paint. When we do that, it'll go into a gel oven that'll bring it up to about that two hundred degree temperature mark, bring that paint up to a sticky tacky texture, and then it'll go back into the paint booth to apply a second coat. Same through the robot, another touch up and manual, and then go into the pure oven. Pure oven will bring that production close-up to three hundred and seventy five to four hundred degrees, thirty five minutes total of pure, and then another ten to fifteen minutes of cool down on this top line area and then into our unload. Once it comes up unload, we move that product into our assembly. So far, the overall production has been going very smoothly.