Painting lines
Surface pre-treatment and coating of car bodies and add-on parts
Priming and dip coating
Dip coating, especially cathodic dip painting, forms the robust, full-surface corrosion protection primer for the body and is the basis of the painting process chain. The bodies are transported using the robust SKID conveyor technology. In the KLT bath, the BIW body is immersed in a water-based binder. Special SKID modules are used here. With WinMOD-SIMLINE, you can operate these immersion SKID processes in a realistic virtual environment. This includes the SKID's own turning and swivelling mechanisms or data communication. Contour-accurate sensor monitoring, loading and unloading processes and object collisions are also simulated in real time.
The 3D CAD data of the SKIDs and car bodies serve as the basis, whereby the WinMOD-SIMLINE SKID library also supplies a number of typical car bodies in various expansion stages in case no CAD data is available for the VIBN.
In addition to transport behaviour, you can also simulate fluid and temperature-related processes such as curing ovens or paint recovery. Extensive WinMOD libraries with virtual pumps, valves, tanks and heating elements are available for this purpose.
Top coating with robots
As with the base coat, the paint supply, known as the „paint kitchen“, is a central process behaviour with circuits, dosing and rinsing. However, the booth air conditioning, positive and negative pressure zones, temperature and humidity control as well as dust management are also regulated by system controls. All these processes can be simulated in real time with WinMOD-SIMLINE. Here again you use the virtual devices of the WinMOD libraries to simulate circuits and controlled systems precisely.
The second central aspect is the painting robots. Many robot manufacturers offer their own simulation software in which you can run one or more robots with the original code. With our WinMOD Co-Simulation concept, we offer online links to these tools in order to exchange axis data and communication signals in real time.
The final virtual system then consists of the 3D robots, the 3D-SKID or Power-and-Free conveyor technology for body transport and the associated drive technology. With this WinMOD-SIMLINE paint shop, you can test your automation system, your robot sequences, determine throughput (car bodies/h) and cycle time per zone, as well as colour change times.
