tioned all manufacturing of its third-generation robot tracks from Switzerland to its US headquarters in Ann Arbor, MI. The Güdel next-generation robotic track systems include a newly launched overhead rail, the Trackmotion Overhead (TMO) system, that mounts robots on overhead gantries in either an inverted orientation, on the side of the rail or on top of the rail. The overhead tracks are somewhat unusual for the market, said Campbell, with FANUC offering its own gantry robot tracks while other robotic OEMs do not. “A lot of people use fl oor tracks rather than overhead gantries based on outdated perceptions of what is easier,” he added.


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Rail-mounted six-axis robot models are popular because of their fl exibility for multiple applications. “The operative word is multiaxis. The robot controller can manage the linear track motion as a seventh axis, making the robot and track operate as an integrated, highly fl exible device,” Campbell said. “Fur- thermore, these systems can be reap- plied and used in other applications.” Using highly reprogrammable robots makes them an ideal fl exible manufac- turing choice for automating factories. “We confi gure linear motion tracks for an application, but we’re confi guring them with the same building blocks that we may use for a completely different industry or a different segment, and they can be redeployed,” Campbell said. “We’re doing a number of jobs right now in automotive powertrain parts manufacturing where we’re relocat- ing, reconfi guring, reprogramming and adding onto old gantry robots that we’ve installed over the years.”


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acts as an integrator. “We use our standard modules confi g- ured specifi cally for an application such as powertrain. In both tire and sheetmetal, we have standard products designed for those applications,” Campbell said.


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