Fully-automating wheelbarrow production

Commenting on the project, Dave Ashworth, managing director at Ingenium Integration, said: “We have developed automated production cells for a number of production processes involving tube bending. The system under construction is the most integrated system we have designed to date – fully automating most of the stages of wheelbarrow frame production, including tube bending, hole punching, swaging and cut-to-length – and is designed for unattended 24/7 operation.”

The production cell comprises a tube bundle loader, tube orientation station with seam detection, intermediate dual-arm loader, bending machine and several articulated robotic handlers, as well as swaging, hole punching and cut to length stations and provides a fully automated wheelbarrow frame manufacturing solution – from raw tube material handling through to final pre-paint finishing and quality inspection.