During a corporate leave in January, the automobile plant of KAMAZ repaired equipment. The modernization at the main assembly conveyor is important, because it enabled to adapt equipment for assembly of KAMAZ from the new lineup, and later – K5 generation vehicles with a new cab.
"During the corporate leave, the maintenance staff of the automobile plant conducted 212 types of works," told Deputy Chief Engineer for Repair and Maintenance – Chief Mechanic of the plant Aleksandr Semenchenko. "They all are aimed at restoration of technical equipment and improvement of product quality."
The main point of the repair program was demounting of a transfer conveyor connecting two lines of the vehicle assembly shop. This year, the assembly of the heavy trucks from the new lineup. The transfer conveyor would have become an invincible obstacle for them, since the length of the chassis of these KAMAZ trucks is much higher than the older models' one. Within two weeks, the transfer conveyor was demounted, new units of an upgraded tilting unit were mounted and installed, lines, cling holds, frame hinges, debugging and testing of a new control system were repaired. The author of the project – Chief Engineer of the automobile plant Sergey Dolbnya – suggested transferring the assembled chassis to the line of vehicle assembly with the use of a special pick-and-place loader. These devices were previously used in the work of the second mother assembly conveyor (GSK-2) too, but now, after repair and modernization, they play the key role. The tests conducted after upgrading showed that the new device will cope with the assembly rate of GSK-2 very well.
At the same time, one of the branches pf the duel-duty overhead conveyor system was modernized too. With the increased height, GSK-2 will assemble K5 generation vehicles with a new cab and a new R6 engine the serial production of which is scheduled for 2019.