How Finishing System Automation Improves Production Output

Increasing production isn’t just about running your finishing equipment faster – it’s about creating a process that is consistent, efficient, and repeatable to keep up with demand. Adding automation to your paint or powder finishing system can reduce manual labor, improve consistency and throughput without impacting your finish quality. From material handling to conveyor systems and robotics, there are a variety of ways to increase production.

What is Finishing System Automation?

Integrating equipment, controls, and material handling is what automates your finishing system. This can include:

• Automated conveyors and material handling systems

• Robotic paint or powder application

• Automated booth and oven controls

• Automated part loading and unloading

• Automated curing ovens

• Sensors and monitoring systems

• Integrated process controls

Adding automation allows your team to spend less time on manual work and more time managing production and quality of your process. 

Increase Throughput Without Increasing Labor
Moving parts faster through the finishing process is one of the biggest ways automation helps your production line. Manual spraying, material handling, and loading or unloading can cause delays in production. Automated conveyors and material handling helps maintain a consistent flow between your part preparation, painting, and curing processes. You can finish more parts per shift and improve production capacity without expanding your facility footprint. 

Improve Application Consistency
Many factors impact your application consistency including spray distance, coating thickness, and application patterns. Automated robotic applications create coating consistency and repeatable processes without manual intervention. This provides many benefits including: 

• More consistent coating thickness

• Improved finish quality

• Reduced overspray

• Fewer defects

• Reduced rework

In high-volume production environments, consistency is extremely important to reduce rework and material waste. 

Designing Automation for your Production Goals
Automation for your system depends on your unique production challenges, parts being finished, facility footprint, and production volume. Rohner designs and builds finishing systems to help improve consistency, reduce waste, and minimize rework. We can help you integrate equipment to automate your process to improve throughput while helping your team optimize their time on the production line. Talk to our team today to get started! 

Have questions? Please contact the Rohner team: info@rohner-usa.com