Lamp assembly line for the Aerospace Industry

Sorting and recycling are important processes that help to conserve resources and reduce waste. Sorting is the process of separating materials or items into different groups based on their characteristics, such as their size, shape, or composition. This is often done to prepare materials for recycling or disposal.

Recycling is the process of converting materials that would otherwise be discarded into new products. It helps to conserve natural resources, such as trees and minerals, and reduce the environmental impact of waste by reducing the need to extract and process raw materials.

REVERSE METALLURGY | A cooperative R&D project supported by regional and european founds

As part of the project Reverse Metallurgy, Cilyx, in collaboration with Comet Treatment and the University of Liège, develops an intelligent high throughput sorting system for  characterization of metallic automotive shredder residues for recycling purposes .

This solution is equiped with various sensors:

• XRT (X-Ray Transmission) for measuring the density of the material.
• 3D to measure the shape parameters of the crushed objects.
• Hyperspectral to measure its reflectance spectrum.

This solution allow a real-time high-speed classification of the different metallic objects with help of multiple robots used in parallel.

Designed by Cilyx to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, the DN400 is robust, compact, and seamlessly integrates into your production line. With its advanced handling system, it ensures efficient and precise denesting of syringes, thus optimizing your productivity.

Start your process with up to 40 trays of pre-filled syringes, each containing up to 100 syringes, arranged on the conveyor. Once conveyed to the DN400, a robotic system handles the syringes in groups of 10 using suction cups. These syringes are then delicately placed on a spiral conveyor, ensuring smooth transfer to the next stage of the production line.

Featuring an impressive denesting capacity of 400 syringes per minute, or 24,000 syringes per hour, the machine ensures optimal performance while preserving operator safety.

At the end of the process, the trays and nests are stacked in a vertical magazine, offering significant space savings and allowing the operator to focus on other tasks simultaneously. Furthermore, the compactness of the machine, combined with its cutting-edge design, incorporates a state-of-the-art robot. Thanks to a virtual enclosure, personnel safety is ensured while reducing physical equipment footprint. This technology allows for more efficient use of space while maintaining high safety standards.

As part of a research and development project funded by the Walloon Region, Cilyx has developed and built a non-destructive control cell for the detection of defects during the manufacture of composite parts. Designed for the constraints of the aviation industry, this cell integrates several inspection technologies and allows the complete automation of the scan of large parts with complex geometry. Two inspection methods are used: shearography and thermography. The programming of inspection trajectories is carried out offline based on the CAD modeling of the components to be inspected.