A powder coating plant for coating a workpiece with coating powder includes a booth, which receives the workpiece delivered via a floor conveyor. In addition, the powder coating plant has an upper spray applicator arrangement for spraying coating powder downward, and a lower spray applicator arrangement for spraying coating powder upward. The upper and the lower spray applicator arrangement are thereby oriented toward the same workpiece. In addition, a manipulator is provided, to which the upper and the lower spray applicator arrangement is fastened. The manipulator is formed such that the spray applicator arrangements can be moved at least in the transport direction of the workpiece by the manipulator.

A dispensing system includes a frame, a support coupled to the frame, a dispensing unit configured to dispense viscous material, and a gantry assembly coupled to the frame. The gantry assembly includes a gantry configured to support the dispensing unit and to move the dispensing unit in x-axis, y-axis and z-axis directions and a tilt and rotate subassembly configured to tilt and rotate the dispensing unit. The dispensing system further includes a controller configured to control dispensing unit and the gantry assembly to perform a dispense operation on the electronic substrate. The controller is configured to control the dispensing unit to dispense material from the nozzle of the dispensing unit at a flow rate configured to deposit a desired amount or density of material on the electronic substrate along a three-dimensional path.

A robotic arm includes a tool located at an end of the robotic arm that delivers a material to a surface. A hose attachment manifold is mounted to the robotic arm. The hose attachment manifold includes an array of openings that extend through a manifold body of the hose attachment manifold. Fittings are mounted to the manifold body and within the openings. A plurality of upstream hoses are mounted to the fittings at a side of the manifold body. A plurality of downstream hoses are mounted to the fittings at an opposite side of the manifold body. The plurality of downstream hoses are fluidly connected to the tool for delivering a fluid material received from the plurality of upstream hoses.

An apparatus and method for locating a position of a coating applicator in a coating process for applying coating material to an article. At least one positioning member is attached to a spray applicator at one end and carries a marker at an opposite end capable of depositing a visible track on a markable surface removably attached to the surface of the article to be coated. The positioning member provide a resilient biasing force on the marker to maintain the marker in contact with the surface of the article despite surface topography changes as the article and the marker move relative to each other. The visible track(s) define a centerline or the overall spray pattern of the spray applicator.

An automated mobile sprayer (AMS) (10) applies fluid sprays to a target surface. The AMS can operate according to a wall-follow routine, where the AMS maintains a spacing and orientation relative to the target surface and shifts a set distance between each spray pass. The AMS is also operable in an overlap adjustment mode where a control module (24) of the AMS actively determines the distance that AMS shifts between each spray pass such that AMS applies the final orthogonal spray on the target surface at an end point of the target surface.

A painting plant may include: at least one painting booth including a painting system configured to apply paint onto objects in the at least one painting booth; a magazine including cartridges containing the paint; and a system configured to automatically transport the cartridges from the magazine to feeding stations which feed the paint from the cartridges to the painting system in the at least one painting booth. In addition or in the alternative, a painting plant may include: at least one painting booth including a painting system configured to apply paint onto objects in the at least one painting booth; a magazine including cartridges containing cleaning liquid; and a system configured to automatically transport the cartridges containing the cleaning liquid from the magazine to feeding stations which feed the cleaning liquid from the cartridges containing the cleaning liquid to the painting system in the at least one painting booth.

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for applying a color to an aircraft. The color for an exterior surface of the aircraft is determined by the computer system from a design of the aircraft. A position of the color in three-dimensional space is determined by the computer system. The position is in a color space coordinate system. An inkjet printer in the inkjet printers with a point cloud in the plurality of point clouds having a smallest Euclidean distance to the position of the color is selected by the computer system. The inkjet printer is used to apply the color on the exterior surface of the aircraft.

This skirt (20) is intended to equip a coating product rotary projector. The skirt (20) has a plurality of air ejection nozzles (40, 42, 44, 46) arranged in said skirt (20) to eject jets of air forming shaping air suitable for shaping the jets of coating product, said air ejection nozzles (40, 42, 44, 46) comprising at least three separate series of nozzles (41, 43, 45, 47) each made up of a plurality of air ejection nozzles (40, 42, 44, 46) fluidly connected to a shared supply chamber, specific to said series of nozzles (41, 43, 45, 47).

A coating system includes coating robots configured to coat a vehicle, and an operation robot. The operation robot includes a first arm configured to turn around a first axis; a second arm configured to turn around a second axis parallel to the first axis; a third arm configured to turn around a third axis parallel to the first axis; a fourth arm configured to turn around a fourth axis perpendicular to the first axis; a fifth arm configured to turn around a fifth axis parallel to the fourth axis; and a tip jig is supported at the fifth arm and is configured to turn around a sixth axis. The sixth axis is selectively parallel to the fifth axis or perpendicular to a plane which includes the fourth axis and the fifth axis.

Device for spray coating embraces a wire arc spray head that includes arc-making contact points and a carrier gas outlet, which is configured to swivel with feed wire in a pivoting motion. The device can be operated to spray coat a work piece.