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    3. New Tailored Blank Laminating Technology (TBL) - intelligently automated
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    New Tailored Blank Laminating Technology (TBL) - intelligently automated

    20 Nov 2018

    Presented to the market at Kiefel’s Automotive Dialogue Day 15th November 2018! Kiefel’s answer to high customer demands: The newly designed and developed “Tailored Blank Laminating” technology and machine.

    Cost pressure in the automotive industry is a constant. The OEM’s are expecting interior products like door-uppers, armrests or even entire door panels and instrument panels to have excellent quality at a very economic price. Vacuum laminating is the key to this success utilizing high automation to insure the best product quality at the lowest price level. Kiefel’s answer to this high customer demand is the newly designed and developed “Tailored Blank Laminating” Technology and Machine.

     

    The innovated Kiefel TBL vacuum laminating machine operates completely automatic, without any operators. Operators are substituted by robots. The unique feature: Tailored blanked exact foil precuts will be used. Thus how the name of this new technology was derived.

     

    By utilizing a uniquely designed servo motor gripper system, the tailored blank foil precut will be positioned and aligned on the substrate without any foil pre-stretch before the TBL-tool will be closed and the vacuum laminating process takes place. Cutting knives, integrated in the TBL-tool are responsible for exact foil overlap length for the subsequent edge-folding process.

     

    For this application Kiefel developed a completely new highly automated vacuum laminating machine. Robots which are integrated components of the machine are not responsible for movement of tool components and parts only. These robots will also be used to transfer the TBL-laminated parts to the subsequent process, e.g. edge-folding or punching. It means that the automation solution is integrated in the machine and more or less free of charge.

     

    The TBL machines new innovative design reduces the overall machine footprint by 50% in comparison with traditional vacuum-laminating machines with the same output, which is another big advantage of this new TBL- machine.

     

    Based on using the tailored blanks foil exact-precuts the entire foil consumption can be reduced up to 40% in comparison to traditional vacuum-laminating technology. The TBL technology interior parts will be produced at a more cost effective rate offering savings over the production period of 5 years in the range of millions of Euro.

     

    Simultaneously, the foil stretch and the grain wash-out, the main quality factor of interior parts, will be significantly reduced to a range of 10 - 15 %. The remaining constant foil thickness and the overall soft-touch of TBL parts offer another quality advantage of the parts produced by TBL-Technology! This allows repeatable and pre-determined gap conditions to neighboring parts. Sharp corners and sharp flanges are also possible based to the exact alignment of the foil before vacuum lamination process.

     

    Main Benefits at a glance:

    • Improvement of product quality
    • Reduced foil consumption
    • Reduced machine footprint
    • Full flexibility
    • High level of automation
    • Integrated robot automation
    • Smart and better alternative to In-Mold-Graining
    The new highly automated modular Kiefel vacuum lamination system utilizing the TBL process (Tailored-Blank-Laminating).
    The new highly automated modular Kiefel vacuum lamination system utilizing the TBL process (Tailored-Blank-Laminating).
    Laminating station of the TBL vacuum lamination system.
    Laminating station of the TBL vacuum lamination system.
    Tailored-Blank precision cut blank in the new Tailored-Blank-3D servo gripper frame.
    Tailored-Blank precision cut blank in the new Tailored-Blank-3D servo gripper frame.
    Forming station with robots for lamination process and parts handling of the vacuum lamination system.
    Forming station with robots for lamination process and parts handling of the vacuum lamination system.

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