Until this point in automotive body painting, Toyota has concentrated on obtaining high quality and automating processes. Also, the booth has become larger and paint consumption has increased. Energy consumption has increased due to conditioning and controlling booth air flow in a longer booth. It has become necessary to develop a system keeping high quality, high productivity, and a clean environment. Therefore, the authors have developed an efficient, flexible spray painting system with a robot and Toyota's bell. This system can be installed in a 40 % shorter booth. As the industry is making strides in automotive painting for body exterior, little was done for the body interior. After the body exterior painting improvements were implemented, the authors began to concentrate on body interior painting system. In order to use a bell application on the body interior, they had to develop a bell which was smaller and safer with regard to electrostatic painting. Additionally, they had to reduce the booth length in the manual process. The authors solved these problems and introduced a new paint application system for body interior into the Takaoka facility. These improvements have reduced paint consumption by 45 % and running cost by 27 %.
The new electrostatic bell application system for body interior
1998
8 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 1 Tabelle
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
The New Electrostatic Bell Application System for Body Interior
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