Robot Tooling - Giving Applications a "Hand"

When you talk about robot tool­ing, you are lit­er­al­ly talk­ing about the hands of the robot. Robot­ic tool­ing is usu­al­ly attached at the wrist of the robot, and it is used to per­form the robot’s pro­grammed tasks. These tools can be used for weld­ing, mate­r­i­al removal, or mate­r­i­al han­dling, depend­ing on the appli­ca­tion that is being performed.

Robot­ic tool­ing for weld­ing comes in the form of a weld­ing gun that is attached with a dress pack­age to the robot. This type of robot tool­ing is usu­al­ly used exclu­sive­ly for either arc weld­ing or spot weld­ing. While they are not inter­change­able, a weld­ing gun can be changed out with oth­er tool­ing to use the robot for anoth­er process.

When deal­ing with the robot tool­ing that is nec­es­sary for mate­r­i­al han­dling and mate­r­i­al removal, man­u­fac­tur­ers can use a tool chang­er to get more out of their robot­ic sys­tem. A tool chang­er can switch from one tool to anoth­er at the same work sta­tion, increas­ing the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of the robot. For exam­ple, a robot can drill holes in a work piece with one tool, change the tool, and then grind or mill the same piece. This increas­es the ver­sa­til­i­ty of the robot, as well as sav­ing the man­u­fac­tur­er mon­ey by allow­ing them to pur­chase one robot, instead of sev­er­al dif­fer­ent machines.

Are you inter­est­ed in learn­ing about all of the robot tool­ing that is on the mar­ket today? Then you should call Robots​.com. Our staff can help you build the per­fect sys­tem with all of the robot­ic tool­ing you need to com­plete your processes.

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