ABB’s FlexWasher™ W50 is a robotic deburring and washer system with built-in pre-rinse and drying chamber and with industry leading “clean” results and low operating costs. The ideal solution for production with different part styles and geometries that require a configuration using mixed styles of high pressure water deburring (HPWD) nozzles.
System operation
The W50 FlexWasherTM consists of a pre-rinse chamber, a main booth and a drying chamber. The main booth is equipped with vertical part entry and exit doors, an IRB 6640 Foundry Prime robot with gripper and stationary HPWD nozzles.
The part is loaded into the pre-rinse chamber where the worst contaminants are rinsed off the part. The robot arm moves through the open entry door and picks the part up from inside of the pre-rinse chamber. After the deburring, wash and optional blow-off in the main booth, the robot arm moves through the open exit door and places the part inside the dry chamber. The drying chamber operates with regenerative air blowers and air canons.
Closed loop water filtration
The FlexWasherTM W50 is equipped with a multi stage closed loop water filtration system. The vacuum or gravity filter unit filters out debris and soluble oils. An optional integrated oil separator skims non-soluble oils. Finally a duplex cartridge filter completes the fine filtration of particles. The most suited filter depends on the amount of water flow, chip load and soluble oils.
Part loading
The FlexWasherTM W50 can be a stand alone unit with manual loading of parts or integrated into full automatic systems with automated loading of parts.