Lightweight pump ensures precise paint application with robots
The GP451C paint metering pump is newly developed especially for increasingly compact robot arms deployed in paint and lacquer systems. This pump enables efficient, high-precision paint application in automobile production, in the aerospace industry and in the manufacture of components for generating renewable energy, for instance. Oerlikon Barmag has been producing gear metering pumps for metered surface coating and painting since 1985. The high-precision pumps allow the paint and lacquer system atomizers to carry out their task reliably. In this product portfolio, the GP451C – coming in at less than 1,000 g – excels as a result of its particularly low weight. This considerably reduces the wear on the arms of the painting robots used. “The GP451C’s already low weight can be additionally reduced if produced by means of additive manufacturing”, explains Thorsten Wagener, the Sales Manager responsible for pumps. “The innovative technology permits total design freedom when adapting the pump to the production system’s periphery”, he continues. The pump has a wide speed range (20 - 240 rpm), hence covering a large application area, which means that manufacturers do not have to deploy several pumps of varying sizes. The DLC wear-protection layer and the use of ball bearings considerably increase the pump’s service life. Furthermore, the pump is characterized by their flow-enhancing and dead spot-free construction, which shortens the required purging and product conversion times, hence helping to increase productivity. Oerlikon Barmag’s shows the newly developed GP451C paint metering pump at this year’s PaintExpo, taking place in Karlsruhe Germany (Hall 3, Stand 3235) between April 21 and 24. Read the full article
