2010 statistics released by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) underscore the reality that more and more companies both in North America and abroad are realizing their need for industrial automation. Last year alone, combined robot orders totaled 29,034. Their total value is $1.839 billion. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Canadian company Robotiq makes flexible, programmable tooling for industrial and other types of robots. Robotiq CEO and co-founder, Sam Bouchard, recently visited RobotWorx to demonstrate the innovative design and capabilities of the Robotiq Adaptive Gripper S-Model.
Take a look at the Robotiq Tooling video!
A Unique Design:
The Robotiq Adaptive Gripper acts much like a human hand, using its three fingers to hold materials and objects securely.
Industrial automation presents today's manufacturers with a host of unbeatable benefits. Here are the top five reasons to automate with robots or other automated equipment.
1) Increased Productivity
The entire purpose behind industrial automation is to increase productivity while maintaining quality. Industrial automation such as robotic systems allows companies to achieve faster cycle times, greater efficiency, and repeatability.
Compact workcells call for compact components. The portable, desktop IRC5 controller is one such component, intentionally designed to promote workcell configurations with small footprints.
When it was first released in 2009, the IRC5 compact controller accompanied the small IRB 120 robot model. Now ABB Robotics is expanding the scope of the IRC5 with line extensions to a total of six robot series: the IRB 120, IRB 140, IRB 260, IRB 360 FlexPicker, IRB 1410, and IRB 1600.
Dual Check Safety (DCS) Position and Speed Check software is truly revolutionary. This option from FANUC Robotics allows a robot to safeguard itself without relying on the extra trimmings and trappings of safety hardware.
Instead, FANUC DCS uses the robot's own hardware and software features.
With DCS, robots are internally restricted to specific zones and speed is more closely monitored.
Robot manufacturer Yaskawa Motoman Robotics and factory communications specialist Rockwell Automation have joined forces to offer the MLX100 Robot Gateway. This new control option makes it possible to deploy, program, and support a wide variety of Motoman robots with RSLogix software technology.
ABB Robotics' newest robot model, the ABB IRB 2600ID, offers the benefits of Integrated Dressing (ID), which routes the cabling and hoses inside and in-line with the wrist and upper arm of the robot. These benefits range from better flexibility and speed, to ease in programming and more compact workcell configurations.
The IRB 2600ID Basics:
The ABB IRB 2600ID is a mid range robot with an 8kg payload capacity and generous two meter horizontal reach.
Let's face it. Tandem bicycles are not very useful. The Lincoln Electric Tandem MIG High Deposition Welding process, however, has many practical applications. Use it to minimize distortion, increase welding speeds, and throughput.
Previously, tandem welding has described workcells with two or more robots working together. In this case, "tandem" refers to the dual wire, not dual robot set-up.
If you need robot tooling to pick up, manipulate, and place your product/part, chances are you're going to use a robotic gripper.
Arguably the most common type of end of arm tooling (EOAT), robotic grippers are found in virtually every industry and context from food production and cleanroom environments to foundries and distribution centers.
If your company's new year's resolutions included goals like faster weld cycle times, increased throughput, and upgraded automation you've come to the right place.
RobotWorx sells pre-engineered and customized robotic welding systems, each one designed to help your company reach every last welding workcell objective. Find out some of the ways our robotic welding systems exceed client expectations.
