Sacmi supplies automated glazing system to Daelim Bath Korea

Daelim Bath, South Korea’s largest sanitaryware manufacturer and market leader in terms of style and technology, has chosen to raise the technological level of the glazing department at its second manufacturing unit located in Changwon City in the south of the country near the city of Busan.

The Sacmi installation is configured according to a new fully-integrated glazing island concept. Unveiled two years ago at Tecnargilla 2014, the line is designed for the production of large WCs requiring high-precision automatic handling systems so as to maintain high process efficiency.

The glazing island for the production of one-piece WCs, the core product in Daelim’s high-end sanitaryware range, occupies a compact space of just 16 x 9 metres.

The delicate task of handling pieces exiting the inspection booths is performed by a FANUC R2000iB anthropomorphic robot with a wrist load capacity of 185 kg, which divides the semi-finished articles between two glazing booths. The articles are sprayed by the Gaiotto GA2000 robot, which alternates between the booths and uses 8-axis control to manage the two working positions in the respective booths. As well as optimising working times, this double-booth configuration allows for the application of two coats of glaze.

The island is integrated with a conveying system with 7 set-down positions, again fed by the handling robot and featuring an automatic foot cleaner that eliminates the need for manual finishing at the glazing island exit.

The cell is also equipped with an intermediate 6-position pre-spray storage station for inspected products.

The technological heart of the cell is the GA 2000 self-learning robot, which in this case is equipped with all the latest glaze spraying innovations: Mass Control^® glaze delivery control system; GDA 80 automatic spray gun, equipped with a diaphragm system that reduces gun maintenance costs by 90% and increases maximum glaze delivery by 50%; the pneumatic 90° gun tilt system, which together with a 25% smaller gun enables the robot arm to spray areas that are hidden or difficult to reach.