Customer Background
The customer is a Tier 1 supplier of brake systems for automotive and non-automotive manufacturers. They supply brake systems for well-known motorcycle, automotive, and ATV manufacturers with a focus on lean manufacturing processes.
Challenge
The customer was seeking a brake component part washing system to clean chips and coolant from miscellaneous aluminum manufactured brake parts with the largest parts measuring approximately 10ʺ x 10ʺ x 10ʺ. The washing system design was required to meet a production rate of one part every 30 seconds with the brake components exiting visually clean. Dryness was not a critical factor so residual moisture was acceptable.
Solution
Alliance provided a two-module brake component washing system consisting of wash and ambient blowoff sections. Photo-eye sensors located at the load end turn the pumps and blowers on in sequence as a part is loaded. Options included in the design were an exhaust fan system, recirculated rinse module to reduce tank volume, and an oil coalescing system. A 72ʺ counterclockwise-rotating part accumulation table was added with an unload chute on the discharge end of the machine to collect part as they exit the washer. The aluminum brake part cleaning machine was made with a 12ʺ high product opening.
