Medical implant manufacturer increases productivity with Guyson automated blaster
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Guyson Multiblast RSB
A British manufacturer of orthopaedic implants and surgical instrumentation is using a Guyson Multiblast RSB machine for cleaning off Hydroxyapatite and Titanium coating ‘overspray’ from its cup and stem implant fixture masks, which become encrusted during Vacuum Plasma Spraying.
The company was looking to improve throughput on a manual blasting operation, which, using a suction-fed manual blast cabinet and taking up to 30 minutes to complete, was acting as a bottleneck in its production routine
This function of this process was to clean the overspray from fixture masks, before they could again be used to hold components and mask selected areas while the components are thermal sprayed with either Hydroxyapatite or Titanium coatings.
Following blast trials on the fixture masks, undertaken at Guyson’s development workshop at Skipton, the automated Multiblast RSB (rotating spindle blast) system was selected to replace this manual process with an automated one.
Key benefits of product application
- Blast cleaning process saves time and effort spent on a manual blasting process
- Requires virtually no operator involvement besides load and unloads
- Delivers 14 clean components at once
- PLC/HMI gives full operational control over machine variables
- ‘Recipes’ facilitate repeatability
- Pot is fitted with low-level media sensor, which ensures that there is enough media in the pot to complete a blast cycle and that another is not undertaken until the pot is refilled above this level
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