Automotive Machine Loading Robots

Auto man­u­fac­tur­ing has been a flag­ship indus­try for demon­strat­ing the ben­e­fits of using robots in assem­bly lines. Images of sparks fly­ing from long lines of weld­ing robots are famil­iar to many peo­ple. Often not con­sid­ered how­ev­er, is the huge cost sav­ings and effi­cien­cy boost that can result from automat­ing the machine load­ing process.

Machine load­ing robots save large amounts of back-break­ing and monot­o­nous human labor, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the auto­mo­tive indus­try where large, heavy, and bulky parts need to be posi­tioned near or in par­tic­u­lar pro­duc­tion machines very rapid­ly and pre­cise­ly for many con­sec­u­tive hours. In the high­ly com­pet­i­tive auto­mo­tive indus­try, machine-load­ing robots can be the dif­fer­ence between turn­ing a prof­it or not.

The KUKA KR series of shelf-mount­ed robots are a great exam­ple of use­ful auto­mo­tive machine-load­ing robots. Robots like these from com­pa­nies like KUKA, Fanuc, and Motoman offer numer­ous mount­ing options and pay­load capac­i­ties to fit into any posi­tion on auto­mo­tive assem­bly lines. Robots like the KUKA KR series can be shelf-mount­ed, keep­ing them out of the way of the main flow of prod­ucts, but still in a posi­tion to do their job. They use a vari­ety of grasp­ing imple­ments, from vac­u­um grip­pers to mechan­i­cal clamps. These are help­ful in load­ing things like sheets of raw alu­minum into a robot­ic press brake, which then stamps out the frame of car doors. The true poten­tial of the prod­uct-pro­duc­ing robots like the press brake or weld­ing robots is only real­ized when cou­pled with a machine-load­ing or posi­tion­ing robot. If human error caus­es a part to be posi­tioned or loaded improp­er­ly for a weld­ing, stamp­ing, pol­ish­ing, or grind­ing appli­ca­tion the part could be ruined and mon­ey wasted. 

Auto­mo­tive machine-load­ing robots cut costs, increase qual­i­ty, and reduce part-cycle times by remov­ing the slow­er and more error prone human from the process. Machine load­ing robots have the motion accu­ra­cy to load a part cor­rect­ly every time with enough mount­ing options and pay­load capac­i­ty options to han­dle any size part in the auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing process.

Robots​.com car­ries a wide vari­ety of machine load­ing indus­tri­al robots. If you would more infor­ma­tion on how to inte­grate one of our robots into your facil­i­ty, con­tact Robots​.com or call 877−762−6881.