Enhancing Pad Printing through Seamless Integration!
Integration optimizes production efficiency, reduces errors, maintains quality standards, and ensures the safety of both products and personnel throughout the pad printing process.
By combining pad printers with part present sensors, vision inspection, rejected part segregation, auto unload, indexers, and safety guarding create a comprehensive and efficient manufacturing process.
- Part present sensors ensure precise positioning throughout the process.
- Pre-treatment optimizes ink adhesion for better printing.
- Indexing components aid in consistent and accurate positioning.
- Pad printing adds detailed images with precision.
- Vision inspection identifies defects, and segregates rejected items.
- Auto unload efficiently removes accepted items for further processing or packaging.
- Safety guarding ensures a secure work environment.
Integration System Videos
Medical Device “Skin Stapler” Printing System
Base Machine: Integra-175
- Printex Integra-175 single Color Pad Printer features a stationary pad drive with a reciprocating plate and ink system to enable high-speed printing.
- Keyence Vision Sensors detect parts correctly positioned and present.
- Keyence CV-X Intuitive Vision System Captures images, analyzes them, and provides feedback for accurate printing
- Camco 8 Position Motor Driven Cam Actuated Rotary Indexer provides precise positioning.
- Quick Change Zero Adjust 2-up Part Holding Fixtures “Quick change” and “zero adjust” features for easy replacement and accurate positioning.
- Two Position Automatic Off-Load Station segregates vision systems accepted and rejected parts.
- Safety Package includes Keyence Light Curtains at load station to detect operator presence, preventing unauthorized operation until loading is complete in addition to interlocking doors to ensure unauthorized use.
Medical Device “Dosage Delivery” Printing system
Base Machine: Integra-175
- Printex Integra-100 2 Color Pad Printer features a stationary pad drive with a reciprocating plate and ink system to enables high-speed printing.
- Part Present Sensors detect parts correctly positioned and present.
- Keyence CV-X Intuitive Vision System Captures images, analyzes them, and provides feedback for accurate printing.
- Camco 8 Position Motor Driven Cam Actuated Rotary Indexer provides precise positioning.
- Quick Change Zero Adjust Part Holding Fixtures “Quick change” and “zero adjust” features for easy replacement and accurate positioning.
- Two Position Automatic Off-Load Station segregates vision systems accepted and rejected parts.
- Safety Package includes Keyence Light Curtains at load station to detects operator presence, preventing unauthorized operation until loading is complete in addition to interlocking doors to ensure unauthorized use.
Surgical Stapler/Anvil 2-Up Printing System
Base Machine: G8-100
- Printex model G8-100 pad printer with automatic pad cleaning tape-off unit.
- Mitsubishi PLC and HMI for seamless control and monitoring.
- 2-up Quick change, zero adjust part holding fixtures secure components during processing.
- Post-print tack drying station ensures proper curing.
- Part present sensors detect the presence of parts at different stages.
- 6-position Camco rotary indexer with a 30-inch aluminum dial plate precisely positions parts.
- 2-position automatic off-load station with individual drop locations for either acceptable or rejected parts.
- Guarding with interlocked safety switch doors and Keyence light curtains enhance operational safety.
2 Color Escutcheon Plate Printing System
Base Machine: G8-150X Servo
- Programmable servo-controlled print positions,
Independently operating print heads through servo-controlled X and Y axis. - Vacuum assisted tooling that can be quickly changed without requiring adjustments.
- Barcoding system for accurate part identification and parameter retrieval.
- Keyence technology to enable two laser operations in both horizontal and vertical
orientations. - Mitsubishi PLC and HMI
- Hard guarding w/ light curtain