High-Speed Assembly
Indexing at 300 cpm and higher with Blur's proprietary Buffalo chassis, and Blur's custom-designed high-speed assembly operations. Soon, to be augmented by the Bald Eagle, Blur's ultra-high-speed assembly robot.
Blur's Buffalo Chassis
The basic building block of your assembly machine, the fastest indexing chassis on the market at 300 indexes per minute with a 160 mm per index. Servo-controlled and highly programmable. Also, modular and fully extendable, reconfigurable to multiple index pitches
160mm is a good carrier pitch for many high-volume (usually disposable) products. You can operate on every 2nd nest, with a little room between stations for access and add-ons. But we can provide numerous pitches.
10 micron nest repeatability
Continuous Strip Processing
We build machines that process continuous strip at high speed (70 m/min), including strip sharpening machines*, which employ Blur's proprietary, high-technology spindles and cutoff modules. We also offer standalone coolant filtration technology for extremely high-quality edges.
*At this time we cannot provide a strip sharpening machine due to contractual agreement.
Two highly engineered grinding spindles, with exceptionally large rotating moments of inertia, rotating synchronously within about 1/100th of a degree, at 6000 rpm.
The end of the line. Here the parts are fed, cut, transferred and stacked at a rate of 25 parts per second (1500 ppm). These operations are so perfect that the station runs without stopping until the reel runs out, about 1 1/2 hours. We can do this at 35-40 parts per second, but we don't need to.
We automatically monitor the product characteristics online with commercial vision hardware and software.
However, we are currently developing internally the capability to measure online
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thickness of the strip 10 microns from the tip
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edge defects 5 microns and smaller
These developments will be of enormous value in online quality control and, accordingly, product brand enhancement.
High-speed Automatic Laser Welding
We integrate commercial laser welding technology to produce high-speed, high precision laser welding solutions for optimum product quality. We can join metals to metals and plastics to plastics.
Both parts are steel. We did this with a 1070 nm fiber laser, with a laser scan speed of almost 1 m/s.
What your razor looks like up close.
2 Plastic parts. The top part is transparent.
Scalpel Sharpening
We build high-reliability product handling and sharpening machines for the manufacture of scalpels.
High-quality medical devices
In addition to providing the machine, Blur also provided consulting services in the areas of
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heat treating the strip for good hardness control
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punching the above shown blanks
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instrumentation
IV Bag Sterilization and Handling
Blur designed the process and produced the preliminary design (shown below), collaborating with a 3d party for implementation.
Blur's highly detailed preliminary design
Transfer Module, the key element:
this device reliably picks 8 or 10 bags at a time, from tray or conveyor, preserving the pattern: It is a mixed-flow fan with mechanized louvres that move up and down for pick and place.
Blur invented, designed, and built these.
Build Complete, or nearly.
In Production
Blur also provided valuable consulting services in the areas of
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Bag Printing
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Bag Filling
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Bag Sterilizing
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Inspection for Particulates
IV (IntraVenous) Bag Robotic Packing
Blur designed the process and produced the preliminary design, collaborating with a 3d party for implementation.
AA Battery Separator Assembly - 400 cpm
Blur's principal produced this amazing machine prior to the inception of Blur, but it is an example of Blur's capability today in producing high-speed solutions. 10 distinct operations are performed here every cycle, at a rate of 400 cycles per minute.
High-speed video
Real time, 400 AA cells per minute. The cells are on 3" centers.
Culinary Robot
Blur's valuable advice in the area of overall machine design, and in the specific areas of bun handling and lettuce preparation, helped bring this culinary robot into the commercial kitchen..
Not fast, but there are very difficult challenges in making a burger automatically
The first location was downtown San Francisco