Selective Adhesive Lamination, and Finishing in a lean Cell

This video is a simple lean manufacturing example to convert selective adhesive with lamination to a graphic overlay and with no work in process to arrive at completed assemblies. At the start of the process an operator loads two sheets of material onto the laser, a bare double liner’ d adhesive film and a graphic overlay. What you cannot see immediately is a lamination that occurs after these two sheets are “pre-prepared”. In this operation the operator, with a pin guided flatbed laminator puts together the adhesive to the rear of the graphic overlay. This “sub assembly” is added to the laser cutting cycle to finish a completed cut out of part(s), and prepare two more sheets for the next lamination cycle. With this process there is no queuing of subassemblies between work centers. The accuracy of the lamination is assured because of the “FlexLam” system that uses retractable tooling pins for exact precision of multiple layers (Up to 20). Much more complicated multi-layer assemblies can be created in a similar manner by adding more layers and cutting paths to the laser.