At Automated Solutions Australia, we are able to offer the full range of FANUC plastics painting robots.

Plastics Painting Robots Overview

Plastics painting has become an incredibly competitive market space, where small-batch painting, and just-in-time delivery, are so important to a company’s ongoing success.

Manufacturers can’t afford to waste paint through poor transfer efficiency. Plastic painting robots offer a repeatable solution. High-voltage electrostatics deploy, using regular spray guns, or rotary atomisers (known as bells). When these integrate into a plastics painting robot system, they provide extremely high levels of transfer efficiency to the part. It can be over 90%, in some cases. The result is a significant amount of waste reduced at the point source of origin.

Plastics Painting Robots with atomised Isocyanates

FANUC design solvent born, waterborn, 2 and 3 component applications. Due to lower oven cure temperatures, we generally paint plastics with  a 2-component paint (a mix of resin and hardener). The 2-component paints often have an isocyanate component that may be carcinogenic when atomized, providing health and safety concerns for manual operators. A purpose designed plastic painting robot keeps operators away from the atomized isocyanates. In parallel, with the correct path development, the application can have a consistent film thickness. This reduces the excess paint required to meet specifications.

Even More Reasons to Automate With Plastics Painting Robots

Modern plastic painting robot systems far exceed transfer efficiency and material utilisation when compared to traditional spray guns and spray systems. Paint robots are easy to program and the robots deliver the same great finish time after time. You can depend on proven FANUC painting robot technology to increase your competitive advantage.

With Plastic Painting Robots you can expect high equipment uptimes. This includes repeatable and consistent part finish and a stable process. 2-component paints (2K) often contain damaging solvents and isocyanate components that may be harmful when atomised. Plastic painting robots reduce the exposure to your personnel and reduces the OH&S risk to your business.

Atomised solvents found in paint materials can create an explosive environment. FANUC Plastics painting robots are very safe. Designed for dangerous environments that are Class 1, Division 1. A purged air cavity is used to negate the effects of a possible spark, keeping the robot safe. Unfortunately, the purge circuit, crucial to the successful operation of the robot, is not that simple. Power is applied to the servomotors of the plastics painting robot, after the controller activates the purge cycle. This consists of flooding an enclosed, sealed cavity, with clean, dry, compressed air.  There is a flow switch mounted within the cavity that makes contact when this level of airflow has been detected. The controller then requires the contact to be held for a nominal number of minutes.