The Versatility of Industrial Robots

It doesn’t take a rock­et sci­en­tist to fig­ure out the advan­tages of robot automa­tion. Robots have enabled man­u­fac­tur­ers to speed pro­duc­tion rates, keep their man­u­al work­ers out of haz­ardous con­di­tions, and increase flex­i­bil­i­ty and ver­sa­til­i­ty in their indus­tries. Ver­sa­tile robots have stream­lined the pro­duc­tion process.

Robots are able to adapt to new process­es as well as changes in mar­ket demand. Their ver­sa­til­i­ty ensures they take min­i­mal time to be repro­grammed for the nec­es­sary tasks, whether it be pick­ing and plac­ing, weld­ing, dis­pens­ing flu­id, or make cos­met­ic changes. 

Robot­ic end-of-arm tool­ing is gain­ing impor­tance as robot users demand more ver­sa­til­i­ty. Flex­i­ble, intel­li­gent end-of-arm tool­ing adds val­ue to the over­all sys­tem. Con­sist­ing of ser­vo grip­pers, hybrid tool­ing, advanced tool chang­ers and con­trol mod­ules, end-of-arm tool­ing is now easy to imple­ment and use.

Robot­ic tool chang­ers enhance robot ver­sa­til­i­ty by pro­vid­ing the robots with the flex­i­bil­i­ty to change end effec­tors auto­mat­i­cal­ly. High repeata­bil­i­ty is accom­plished as they func­tion for mil­lions of cycles. Expen­sive, non-pro­duc­tive tool chang­ing time is sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced. An auto­mat­ic tool chang­er is an exten­sion of the robot arm and must be gripped secure­ly. ATI Indus­tri­al Automa­tion offers the QuickChange tool chang­er with an air-actu­at­ed pis­ton on the mas­ter plate. 

Advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing allows Daim­ler-Chrysler to pro­duce excel­lent cars. Their pre­mi­um brand, Mer­cedes-Benz, is using a rev­o­lu­tion­ary pro­duc­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem called ​“Coop­er­at­ing Robots.” KUKA devel­oped this inno­v­a­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing sys­tem that enables coor­di­nat­ed team­work between robots. The team­work speeds their pro­duc­tion time, and allows greater pre­ci­sion and ver­sa­til­i­ty. Intel­li­gent Eth­er­net-based com­mu­ni­ca­tion was devel­oped for more flex­i­ble and effi­cient robot oper­a­tion. As the pro­duc­tion robots become more ver­sa­tile team play­ers, it is appar­ent that con­ven­tion­al pro­duc­tion can­not imple­ment the prac­tices that these robots can.

To demon­strate the ver­sa­til­i­ty of robot­ic sys­tems, con­sid­er the indus­tries that com­mon­ly use robots: aero­space, agri­cul­ture, auto­mo­bile, con­struc­tion, enter­tain­ment, health care, lab­o­ra­to­ries, law enforce­ment, man­u­fac­tur­ing, mil­i­tary, min­ing, trans­porta­tion, util­i­ties, haz­ardous envi­ron­ments, and even pri­vate home use.

Robots​.com buys and sells new and used indus­tri­al robots that can be used for a large vari­ety of appli­ca­tions. We have also worked with a large vari­ety of dif­fer­ent indus­tries so our knowl­edge of robot­ic inte­gra­tion is vast. If you would you like to learn more about indus­tri­al robots, con­tact us at 877−762−6881 or get in touch with rep­re­sen­ta­tives online.