Assemble the masses: ABB assembly robots

ABB’s IRB 120 robot is the company’s small­est robot. It is ide­al for assem­bly appli­ca­tions and mate­r­i­al han­dling. It is com­pact and light­weight, pro­vid­ing supe­ri­or con­trol and path accuracy.

It has been used in the elec­tron­ics indus­try to assem­ble a dig­i­tal cam­era. The sys­tem can locate ran­dom­ly placed parts using vision tech­nol­o­gy and assem­ble the parts into the cam­era with posi­tion­al repeata­bil­i­ty of .01mm.

The 6‑axis IRB 120 also came to the aid of Viv­abox, a pack­ag­ing pro­duc­er. The sys­tem can han­dle 1200 trays of box­es an hour and now runs 16 hours a day, sav­ing Viv­abox sig­nif­i­cant­ly in oper­a­tional costs.

The com­pa­ny Elek­tro-Pra­ga need­ed a new pro­duc­tion line for its child-proof dual-plug elec­tri­cal safe­ty sock­ets. 3 ABB robots took over the job. The IRB 140 is small, fast, accu­rate, and pow­er­ful with one of the fastest cycle times of any artic­u­lat­ed robot. The robot sys­tem is con­cen­trat­ing on the dual plug sock­ets for now, but soon will be used for oth­er variants.

ABB is con­tin­u­al­ly striv­ing to meet the future needs of its cus­tomers. ABB’s cus­tomer base began fre­quent­ly request­ing that ABB devel­op robot­ic solu­tions for man­u­fac­tur­ing envi­ron­ments in which humans and robots could work col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly. New and inno­v­a­tive solu­tions were nec­es­sary for small part assem­bly operations.

In response, ABB cre­at­ed a dual-arm con­cept robot. It is a 14-axis robot with a flex­i­ble grip­per, cam­era-based part loca­tion, and all the fea­tures includ­ed with the IRC5 robot con­troller. The robot is com­pact and can fit into human work­spaces along­side humans. With its human-like arms and body, it com­ple­ments human labor with agile motion. Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty are ensured with the padded dual arms.

Robot­Ware Assem­bly Force Con­trol is an appli­ca­tion option in ABB’s assem­bly soft­ware pro­grams. It is ide­al for the use of robots for tasks that need touch sens­ing, like assem­bly, fix­tur­ing, and prod­uct test­ing. Robot move­ments adapt to the feed­back from a force sen­sor so the robot can auto­mat­i­cal­ly search for a loca­tion and assem­ble parts using intel­li­gent force/​torque motion with­out risk­ing part dam­age. Robot­Ware Assem­bly FC robo­t­izes assem­bly tasks while han­dling parts like a human work­er, sav­ing instal­la­tion and pro­gram­ming costs.

Robots​.com offers a vari­ety of ABB assem­bly robots that can be pur­chased at a low­er price. We have new and used mod­els avail­able for inte­gra­tion. For more infor­ma­tion, call us at 877−762−6881.