Vauxhall - UK

The Conveyor system was designed to move car engine blocks along a production line automatically.

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The system top-tier was specially designed to convey jigs to hold the engine blocks; at the start of the process, the engine blocks were lowered by crane onto the Jigs. 

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The top-tier system was split into eight separate zones, allowing the engine blocks to index forward to each zone for different parts to be assembled into the engine block; once the zone was complete, it would index to the next zone until the assembly was complete.

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The system is controlled by the operators at each zone. Once complete, a push button at the side of the system must be pressed before the block moves to the next zone.

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Once the Engine blocks have been fully dressed at the 8 x zones, assembly is complete. The operator unloads the engine using a crane and presses a button for the jig to return to the start of the process.

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The Jigs are then lowered down and transferred to the lower-tier conveyor system, which acts as a storage system for the empty Jigs.