J9505 Medical Device Assembly

Located about the perimeter of a centrally placed Magnemotion Intelligent Conveyor loop with custom vehicles are stations of various machine operations to produce a medical device adhesive application pen at a rate of 30 per minute. On a single side of the length of the machine, all individual pen components are fed in via vibratory bulk supply hoppers or ACdriven elevating prefeeders. Allcomponents, when fed from bulk, drop onto backlit rotary disk feeders that workin conjunction with above mounted Cognex vision cameras which in turn relaycomponent position data to Fanuc LR Mate Six-Axis Robots. Each robot is responsible for loading its own designated part with either vacuum or pneumatic gripper end of arm tools. With components loaded onto the Magnemotion track, a series of Allen Bradley Servo and Pneumatic pick and place operations are present along the opposite side of the machine to pick, place, press, reorient, reposition and manipulate the components to produce a completed adhesive pen assembly. Following all machine operations, a Cognex final vision inspection is present to verify correct assembly. Good adhesive pens are picked and placed into the platens of a Farason supplied and integrated Starview Blister Sealing Machine.