In recent years, as industrial automation technology has advanced — especially with the rise of smart home products — the production of the many hardware parts they use has become increasingly automated, involving double-sided tape, single-sided protective film, foam EVA tape and so on. Domestic work on automatic double-sided tape applicators, however, has concentrated on mechanical structures for specific applications such as printing, stationery and handicrafts, paper tube cores, weather strips and hollow aluminum strips. Equipment that is highly automated and proven in real production is still scarce, and struggles to meet market demand.
Against that background, Wanzhi Automation developed a tape applicator system that is highly automated, highly versatile and suitable for use in real production.
Figure 1: Example of a product with double-sided tape applied
Figure 2: Aluminum round-tube tape applicator