KUKA KR3 Injection Molding Robot

Just like a kid mak­ing a Kool-Aid pop­si­cle by let­ting the Kool-Aid con­form to the shape of the tray, injec­tion mold­ing pro­duces parts by inject­ing mate­r­i­al into a mold. It is a com­mon man­u­fac­tur­ing process involv­ing a vari­ety of mate­r­i­al types. The KUKA KR3 robot auto­mat­ed the injec­tion mold­ing process in a cell for a com­pe­ti­tion at Ohio North­ern Uni­ver­si­ty in 2007. Not only did the KUKA KR3 win the Gold award in its divi­sion, but it also was award­ed the top hon­or of 2007 Robot of the Year.

At the ONU com­pe­ti­tion, the KUKA KR3 processed pok­er chips from raw mate­ri­als with­in the cell, and labeled the chips with ​“ONU” before pass­ing them out to impressed bystanders. The KR3 is one of sev­en robots that KUKA has pro­vid­ed to ONU’s Robot­ics Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­ter of Excellence.

The KUKA KR3 is a 6‑axis robot that has mul­ti­ple mount­ing options: on the floor, on a table, or even on the ceil­ing. 6‑axis robots’ lat­er­al move­ments are ide­al for unload­ing parts from an injec­tion mold­ing machine due to their flex­i­bil­i­ty. It has a 3kg pay­load and a 635 mm reach. It is designed for light pay­load appli­ca­tions such as mate­r­i­al han­dling, dis­pens­ing, machine load­ing, and machine tend­ing. It is designed to make quick, accu­rate movements.

The KR3 is com­pat­i­ble with KUKA. Sim Proc soft­ware, an offline pro­gram­ming tool for sim­u­la­tion analy­sis and pro­gram­ming gen­er­a­tion. Oth­er impor­tant KUKA injec­tion mold­ing robot mod­els are the KR 150 L 110, KR 125, and KR 30.

Robots​.com offers KUKA KR3 Injec­tion Mold­ing Robots at a reduced price. Robots​.com refur­bish­es and tests these robots to be brand new while sav­ing the cus­tomer mon­ey on the cap­i­tal cost. Con­tact Robots​.com today for your KR3 Robot at 877−762−6881.