Automotive factories provide a good example of where flow-line manufacturing has to be combined with a high degree of flexibility. The capital tie-up in materials has to be minimized, at the same time as customers have an ever increasing demand for colours, engines, gearboxes and other options. The system can be used for routing of car bodies or object carriers such as palettes and conveyor hangers, as well as to instruct industrial robots for individual object processing.
In press- and body shops, Scirocco readers increase line efficiency, simplifies production planning and makes a quick start-up of new models easier. Thanks to the large installed base of optics for position sensing, users of Scirocco IR can trust that an optical identification with Scirocco tags is suitable for this application.
Scirocco IR operates safely in the hostile body-shop environment, where strong electromagnetic fields and lots of metal that can reflect or short-circuit signals rule out many other identification technologies. With their robust design, the ID tags withstand influence from chemicals as well as mechanical shock and vibrations.
Scirocco IR offers an option to read steel barcodes at large distance and speeds up to 2 m/s regardless of passage distance, passage direction or heavy clogging with paint. This system needs no critical alignment to work reliably, and works safely even in the presence of complex metal structures and rough EMI conditions.
Thanks to that the barcode tag is read at any distance between reader and illuminator without need for refocusing, the system handles mixed skids, conveyor hangers and load carriers that transport the car body.
Printed with embossing technique, the barcode can be read with the human eye also if covered by paint. This function is of interest e.g. to support a situation where the object that is to be identified has been taken aside for temporary storage outside a factory flow-line.
The tag has compact dimensions and low weight, is designed for tough handling and stands cleaning e.g. by soaking in chemicals, spraying with water-jet, freezing with nitrogen and blasting with sand.