1100 parts per minute, this specification had to be met.

Based on our glass disk inspection machine OPTISORT W800, we have managed to increase the output quantity even further, by adding a separating device at the end of the feeding system. This separator ensures equal gap lengths between the parts, before they are placed on the glass disk. This design allows us, to really test each and every part on the glass disk, without any untestable parts, due to too narrow distances between them. If the part distance is to short, it is not safe enough to eject the correct part of the glass disk. Therefore parts which are standing to close to another, cannot be tested and have to be inserted again.

With the new separating device, the gaps between the parts are all equal, this leads to 99,6% testable parts. This enabled us to exceed the customers requirement and achieved a stable continuous operation at a speed of 1200 parts/minute.

Another specialty of this machine is the ability to measure the depth of the hole within the rivet. With normal optical measuring devices, this test cannot be guaranteed, because the depth cannot be shown, neither in incident light nor in transmitted light. For this, we are using a laser measuring device, which gives us a height profile of the part, as it passes through the laser beam.

The scan rate of the laser is so high that an exact measurement result can be recorded and evaluated even at 1200 parts/minute.

Please give us a new challenge, phone us and send us some sample parts. We will try to get them running on our demo machines to give you a possible solution if we can meet your testing and sorting needs with a GEFRA OPTISORT system.