MACHINERY | AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS
Right: KraussMaffei used CFP
technology and an LRXplus robot to make a tailgate component
suitable for use in pick-and-place applications and in simple automation cells. The Primus 118 works with Wittmann’s R9 robot
controller. This includes an OPC UA interface as standard for exchanging data with an MES and editing and saving programs on a PC. The R9 supports the user from the program creation stage, saving time.
Cells for Asia Also at Chinaplas, Arburg will show its customer- specific production cells for Asia. At the Arburg Technology Factory (ATF) in
Below: Netstal used an Elion 1200 Med and six-axis robot to make a housing for auto-injectors
Pinghu, China, its Allrounders are built with automation from local partners and customer-spe- cific production cells are installed. Arburg now also assembles the Allrounder Trend for China and the Asian market here. “Process reliability and component quality will continue to gain in importance, and more and more robots and complex production cells will be used,” said Zhao Tong, managing director of Arburg in China. “With our portfolio, know-how and Arburg Technology Factory, we are ideally positioned for this”. An example of a turnkey system specially designed to meet the needs of regional customers will be on display at Chinaplas: an Allrounder 1600 T with a clamping force of 2,000kN that over- moulds inserts automatically. The rotary table machine manufactures high-voltage modules for automotive connectors – to name just one example. A six-axis robot feeds the metal inserts via a transfer platform and stacks the finished injection-moulded parts. Another six-axis robot places the inserts in the injection mould and – after overmoulding with glass fibre-reinforced PBT – transfers the pre- moulded parts to the mould, where the finished module is created by another overmoulding process.
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Robot redesigns KraussMaffei showed its redesigned all-electric PX injection moulding machines at K2025 – as well as its new LRXplus linear robots. The LRXplus series offers a range of functions for
flexible automation and has a high level of compat- ibility, both with KraussMaffei’s own injection moulding machines and those from other manufac- turers. Combinations of PX machine and LRXplus
robots were seen in a series of live demos at the show. In one, a PX80 production cell produced electronic components made of polyamide. An LRXplus linear robot removed components and placed them on a conveyor belt inside the machine enclosure. In another, a PX 200 in cleanroom design produced medical components on a compact footprint. Here, 96 inner needle protec- tion caps for insulin pens were made in 4.5 seconds.
At the show, an LRXplus 350 linear robot and a
GX 650-4300 (clamping force 6500 kN) machine were used to make a complex tailgate component using the company’s new chopped fibre process- ing (CFP) technology. “With CFP technology, we help customers to
reduce their material costs in the production of fibre-reinforced components,” said Jörg Stech, CEO of KraussMaffei Technologies.
Cleanroom moulding At K2025, Netstal used the latest generation of its Elion Med injection moulding machines to produce a housing for autoinjectors in a cycle time of 12 seconds. The machine, equipped for use in cleanrooms, had a clamping force of 1200kN and used a four-cavity mould from Zahoransky. The mould
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