Blasting Components, Precisely

The RB-600 has the capacity to store and recall motion programs and blast process parameters for more than 100 different components.

Designed specifically for the aerospace industry, the RB-600 robotic blast system is used primarily for the single-piece-flow processing of precision components, and comes available with special adaptations for shot peening or surface preparation of turbine buckets and blades. The Model RB-600 is available in suction-blast or pressure-blast versions and is compatible with the full spectrum of shot and grit blasting or peening media.

A 6-axis FANUC Robotics LR Mate 200iC robot arm, rigidly suspended from the removable roof of the RB-600 blast cabinet, directs the single blast gun or pressure nozzle. A servo meter-driven spindle coordinates the nozzle motion with component rotation. Robotic motion’s control of the seventh axis enables the correct blast-gun standoff distance, angle to the substrate, and surface speed accurately and constantly maintains the robotic blast machine following the contours of complex-shaped parts during the programmed impact treatment routine.

The RB-600 delivers substantial energy savings as it precisely executes the process recipe for each separate component when compared to the robot blast system. Eliminated by the robotic blast system is set up time, gun adjustment, and trial runs for changeover.

To simplify loading and unloading of parts, the rotary spindle and component-holding fixture mount on the gear motor-actuated flip-down door of the RB-600 robotic blast system, so blasting operations are performed with the spindle in a horizontal position. In preparation of shot peening or grit blasting turbine blades, purge air is supplied to the spindle base, while a swing clamp presses and seals the bucket and its urethane rubber mask against the part-holding fixture, forcing compressed air-flow through the cooling vents of the hollow blade to prevent entrapment of blasting media particles inside components.

Unveiled during IMTS 2012, the RB-600 robotic is a 7-axis robotic blasting machine featuring a flip-down door to simplify loading.

Design of the fixturing system allows for positive location of interchangeable masks for a variety of similar components, enabling flexible automated processing in a single robotic blasting machine. The robotic blast system has the capacity to store and recall motion programs and blast process parameters for more than 100 different components, plus a teach pendant or off-line programming software can program the robot. Go to http://www.bit.ly/rymcew.com to watch a video of the RB-600 robotic blast system.

Features:

• Single blast gun or pressure nozzle directed by a 6-axis FANUC Robotics LR Mate 200iC robot arm
• Available as suction-blast or pressure-blast versions
• Blasting operations performed in horizontal position
• Positively locates interchangeable masks for a variety of similar components

Guyson Corp.
Saratoga Springs, NY
www.guyson.com