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Scope graphical programming interface version. Advanced software enhancements provide users with a higher level of motion control capabilities. The UR20 fills a gap in the company’s product
range, where its reach is designed to work to the full height of a standard Euro-pallet for packaging and palletising operations, or it can be used for material handling, machine tending or welding. “More than half of all US manufacturing tasks are automatable, a fact that businesses start to realise as they simply cannot fill open positions,” says Joe Campbell, Senior Manager of Applications and Strategic Marketing. Yaskawa America, Motoman Robotics Division
has expanded its lineup of cobot palletisers with HC30PL, a specialised model designed to handle a maximum payload of 30 kg for use in heavy order picking applications that may be highly strenuous, monotonous and unergonomic for a worker. The long reach of the cobot allows every point of a pallet to be reached, allowing for stacking height of 2 m on a standard Euro pallet. By adding laser scanners that detect the distance between the cobot and operator, the operation speed can be adapted to the specific situation, enabling high-speed opera- tion of up to 2 m/s for cycle time optimisation. The HC30PL uses a Smart Pendant to facilitate
programming. The company’s new Smart Pattern software guides the user through the individual steps to create different palletising patterns to generate the cobot program. It requires a few reference points and pattern information, which can be edited in the platform. Yaskawa Motoman is also collaborating with
Rapid Robotics, a San Francisco-based robotic workforce solutions company, to leverage that company’s rapid deployment capabilities, machine vision technology and artificial intelligence models and service to industrial applications. Yaskawa Motoman’s industrial capabilities will
be integrated with Rapid Robotics turnkey Rapid Machine Operator (RMO) robotics solution, which is designed to automate simple, repetitive tasks. RMO combines Rapid Robotics computer vision, software and hardware (robot) into a package that they install and maintain at a customers’ facility.
Space saving Yushin developed its PA series of palletising robots for injection moulders in a space-saving design for unloading and loading stacking of products in spaces with low stacking heights. The PA series is offered in a PA-20 model which
supports a 20 kg payload and a PA-40 model that supports a 40 kg payload. The company’s Japan
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Left: Yushin developed its PA series of palletising robots for injection moulders to operate in limited space
website also mentions a PA-50 with a 50 kg payload. The models include and support the weight of the robot wrist. The robot is designed to have a minimal footprint which reduces installation space require- ments, resulting in fewer obstructive stanchions placed around the robot when compared to gantry-type robots. This allows for a free layout similar to that of an articulated robot. It also maximises the advantages of cartesian robots and placement around its beam structure, with few columns which ensures a freedom of layout. At the K show last year, Sepro previewed Visual+, a modular control software architecture able to synchronise the complex movements of up to 16 robots as well as the peripheral equipment that perform secondary functions such as assembly, marking, inspection and packaging. The new control technology uses open-communication systems that are hardware dependent. “This way, we can commu- nicate seamlessly with almost any moulding machine or secondary unit using a centralised architecture,” says Charles de Forges, CEO and CTO. At the K show, Sepro demonstrated a complex
automated production cell built around an injec- tion machine supported by a Sepro 5X-15 cartesian robot with a servo-driven wrist and a 6X 140.2 articulated arm robot. Its Visual+ managed opera- tion of the entire cell, including the part assembly, quality checking, packaging, and part transport by autonomous mobile robot. Arburg has expanded its range of multi-axis
robots with the addition of a Yaskawa “powered by Arburg”. It says it is assuming the role of system integrator, offering coordinated production cells from a single source. Similar to a Arburg linear
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