Use case · Painting
Schneider Electric, plant in southern Germany
A robot where the automatic guns cannot reach
Before
The automatic guns could not reach the undercuts, so every shift recoated them by hand.
After
A robot at the line coats what the automatic guns cannot reach.
Painting and coating
Southern Germany
Electrical engineering, housing parts
Why it matters
A group plant adds a robot to its automatic line and wants to take it along into the next booth.
The situation
A powder line with automatic guns on both sides. The guns could not reach the undercuts of the housing parts, so they were touched up by hand in every shift. On top of that come some 200 different hangers and programs.
What we built
First the plant visited our demonstration site in Nunningen with its own coater (October 2023). We then built a self-learning Lesta robot on a lifting axis into the existing line, on subscription. A new extraction wall was added later. We handle maintenance and safety checks.
Built with
- Lesta MV A6 painting robot, ATEX version
- Lifting axis in the existing line
- The customer’s automatic powder guns
- New extraction wall
- Remote access for service
The result
In operation since 2024. The robot coats what the automatic guns cannot reach, and the plant wants to take it along into its next new booth.
Pictures from the project
Krone Group, coating plant in Emsland
In three shifts, coaters stand under truck bodies and work overhead in the powder cloud.
Passt Coating AG, Nunningen
- Before
- No powder coaters left to hire, orders piling up, the business close to shutting down.
- After
- The old line runs at full capacity again, and the plant is now our demo site in Switzerland.
4 months to full capacity
BETEC Beschichtungstechnik, near Karlsruhe
- Before
- No qualified coaters, and an owner who said no twice.
- After
- Two robots coat, the team hangs the parts and picks the program.
6 weeks until the second robot was ordered
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