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Housewares paint line — 120 jph at ΔE < 1.2
Consumer Goods•2024•Mississippi, USA

Housewares paint line — 120 jph at ΔE < 1.2

Robotic paint booth with cure-oven exit color verification for high-mix housewares product.

Client
Confidential — Housewares OEM
Location
Mississippi, USA
Capabilities
Turnkey Line Build · Machine Vision
120 jph
Rate
+22% TE
Paint transfer efficiency
ΔE < 1.2
Color match

The challenge

OEM ran a high-mix paint line manually. Transfer efficiency was poor (40%) wasting paint, and customers were rejecting parts on lot-to-lot color variation.

What we built

Two ABB IRB 5500-22 paint robots, electrostatic atomizers, conveyor speed tied to part fixture barcode, and an X-Rite spectrophotometer reading every nth part at the oven exit. Recipe library covers 28 SKUs.

Key equipment

  • ABB IRB 5500-22 ×2
  • X-Rite Ci7800
  • Eisenmann cure oven
  • Cognex fixture barcode

From the floor

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Housewares paint line — 120 jph at ΔE < 1.2 — 1
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Housewares paint line — 120 jph at ΔE < 1.2 — 3

Results

Transfer efficiency up 22 points, color match held at ΔE < 1.2 across SKUs, and customer color rejects fell to a single ppm-level event.

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