New 2-component compounding system for fully automatic PUR compounding

Electronic devices are compound-filled in order to permanently protect electronic components from external influences such as heat, moisture, vibration or chemical influences. We have now put a new compounding system into operation to further optimize compounding in our production. We were able to rely on proven technology from the manufacturers Dopag and Universal Robots.

The new system ensures fast and precise results after a short training period and requires little effort to change over to different articles. A robot - affectionately christened "Number 5 lives" by his colleagues in production - removes a product carrier with devices to be potted from a stack provided, guides it first to a camera for identification and measurement and then to the dispensing head of the potting machine. Here, the devices are filled with potting compound in several steps. The robot then uses the processed product carriers to form new stacks in which the compound-filled devices are cured. This process can also be carried out autonomously during a night shift. Having a robot take over the repetitive work steps also significantly reduces the workload for the employees in the potting area.

In order to optimally integrate the system into our production processes, the planning, design, essential parts of the software and the assembly of the system were implemented by our own equipment engineering department.