American Honda Releases First in a Series of Environmental Film Shorts
Associate-driven environmental initiatives, both big and small, are the focus of the series
"Paint by Numbers," the first film in the series, highlights Honda's patented technology for reducing energy use from the vehicle painting process
Interesting video but I'm wondering if the actual quality of the paint was considered/raised given that has been a week spot of Hondas for years? The paint on my 08 TL is decent but compared to other luxury brands especially the Germans and Lexus, I'm not at all impressed with Acura's the RL being excluded.
FiSH-Chan wrote: I like how the painting robots look. Somehow I was still imagining they are the old types with lots of cable sticking out.
Yeah, paint robots have very little payload and a very simplistic "tool", so there doesn't need to be a lot of "stuff" all over it.
By contrast, a welding robot or material handling robot will have many more cables and tooling. Even with all of that, most of the cabling is reduced to a data bus with I/O localized on the tooling. So there are actually very few cables going to the tooling from the controller.
There are also videos from the body shop and assembly. I work in assembly with the glass glueing and install robots (among other things).
Note also that those videos are somewhat out dated. They were shot in 2008 and 2009. The number of robots has more than doubled in the body shop, and there are more in paint as well, although I don't know how many.
Thanks for sharing; imho amazing stuff, and glad to see overseas plant engineers contributing to improving the production process.
Better for the environment, cheaper for Honda, it's a win-win situation.
DCR wrote: They most likely are underneath the sterile suits.
I guess imagining is not the right word lol. I am saying that my brain is still stuck in maybe 1980s and thought that paint robots look huge and awkward and how these paint robots look so modern and move so smooth surprised me a lot.
Harvey Jr wrote: Yeah, paint robots have very little payload and a very simplistic "tool", so there doesn't need to be a lot of "stuff" all over it.
By contrast, a welding robot or material handling robot will have many more cables and tooling. Even with all of that, most of the cabling is reduced to a data bus with I/O localized on the tooling. So there are actually very few cables going to the tooling from the controller.
There are also videos from the body shop and assembly. I work in assembly with the glass glueing and install robots (among other things).
Note also that those videos are somewhat out dated. They were shot in 2008 and 2009. The number of robots has more than doubled in the body shop, and there are more in paint as well, although I don't know how many.
I am so outdated when it comes to this stuff. Learning new things. Thank you.
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