Bishop-Wisecarver Group Engineering Team (left to right):
Azhar Khaderi, Garrett Diulio, Ben Domingo, Naasik Akkas
CHALLENGE
A company in the
Food & Beverage Industry needed to add a vacuum tray cleaner to an existing
piece of equipment for their post-production cleaning process. This vacuum tray
cleaner needed to integrate with the customer’s operations software and meet
physical constraints.
APPLICATION
In this application, a motorized linear actuator needed to
move a vacuum cleaner up and down, left to right, to remove any residue left on
the tray.
SOLUTION
Bishop-Wisecarver Group (BWG) subsidiary, WRW Engineering, designed and built a motorized, X-Z
gantry system along with the electrical interface to be installed in the
customer’s existing equipment. When the
interface sensed that the tray was moved into the “clean” position the Z axis
actuator lowered the vacuum system down to tray level. The vacuum was activated and the X axis
actuator moved the vacuum across the surface of the tray to be cleaned. Once the tray was cleaned, the vacuum was
raised back to the ready position and the tray returned into the production
sequence.
COMPLETE SYSTEMS
With the help of our WRWengineering team’s expertise, they
were able to design and build a custom motorized gantry system that consisted
of two axes. They used multiple
Bishop-Wisecarver product lines, LoPro
and DLS actuators as a solution.
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