Increase the Value and Safety of Plastic and Polymer Production with Universal Robots

Uni­ver­sal Robots brings huge amounts of flex­i­bil­i­ty to the plas­tic and poly­mer pro­duc­tion line; one that requires a high­ly flex­i­ble indus­tri­al robot that can suc­cess­ful­ly adapt and con­queror the wide range of mate­ri­als and tem­per­a­ture ranges nec­es­sary. Their col­lab­o­ra­tive series, UR3, UR5, and UR10,provide the per­fect solu­tion for plas­tic and poly­mer man­u­fac­tur­ing, includ­ing areas such as de-gat­ing, PCB load­ing and unload­ing, and pick and place projects. They can eas­i­ly adapt to dif­fer­ent pro­duc­tion process­es and the changes that are nec­es­sary in the plas­tic and poly­mer productions.

The diverse pro­duc­tion options that Uni­ver­sal Robots pro­vides offers flex­i­ble lay­outs and prod­uct adjust­ments for your cur­rent pro­duc­tion line or what may come in the future. This is because every Uni­ver­sal col­lab­o­ra­tive robot arm is extreme­ly com­pact, easy to deploy, and able to adapt to dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions in the blink of an eye. They are light­weight, space-sav­ing, and so easy to pro­gram; the per­fect, agile automa­tion solu­tion for almost any task, includ­ing those with small batch­es or fast change-overs.

The great thing about putting indus­tri­al robots on your pro­duc­tion line is the increased safe­ty that they pro­vide. Uni­ver­sal Robot col­lab­o­ra­tive arms can help reduce repet­i­tive work for employ­ees, while improv­ing the over­all pro­duc­tion capa­bil­i­ties. They can elim­i­nate employ­ee expo­sure to nox­ious gas­es giv­en off dur­ing the pro­duc­tion of plas­tics and poly­mers and also pro­tect them from plas­tic shav­ings and han­dling of sharp objects.

Uni­ver­sal Robots has suc­cess­ful­ly increased pro­duc­tion in a vari­ety of com­pa­nies as seen with this com­pa­ny, Dynam­ic Group. Dynam­ic Group was in need of improv­ing their exist­ing labor force as the injec­tion mold­ing machin­ing cycle was very labor inten­sive and oper­a­tors were hav­ing a hard time keep­ing up. Their prod­ucts required a very high con­sis­ten­cy in han­dling due to the heat sen­si­tive mate­r­i­al being mold­ed, thus result­ing in ruined parts and a low­er up time.

Dynam­ic Group real­ized they need­ed to auto­mate to stay com­pet­i­tive with sim­i­lar com­pa­nies but were fear­ful of the ini­tial robot cost and pro­gram­ming fees. After learn­ing that Uni­ver­sal Robots col­lab­o­ra­tive series offers fast pay­back and is excep­tion­al­ly easy to pro­gram, even for those in expe­ri­ence, Dynam­ic Group nev­er looked at anoth­er robot. They found a sys­tem that was ver­sa­tile and could be moved from dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions to address the high mix/​low vol­ume pro­duc­tion. They chose to incor­po­rate four Uni­ver­sal Robots which improved their injec­tion mold­ing prod­uct con­sis­ten­cy and out­put by 400%.

The new, flex­i­ble, auto­mat­ed pro­duc­tion line, involv­ing UR10 robots, was able to pro­duce con­sis­tent cycles with few­er oper­a­tors. The robots took the engi­neer two days to pro­gram and set up, with the robots placed on wheels to enable the slid­ing between press­es. The CEO of Dynam­ic Group was astound­ed at the suc­cess of these robots, the ease of use, and over­all improve­ment to the pro­duc­tion line. They had a ROI in less than two months! It was not­ed that when com­pared to tra­di­tion­al robots, the UR robots were much eas­i­er to teach and pro­gram from drag and drop appli­ca­tions. Dynam­ic Group loved the fact that you can pro­gram the robot in a ​“Teach Mode” where you can just grab and drop the arm to spe­cif­ic points, and then sim­ply hit play where it will go through all of the move­ments. They are look­ing for­ward to incor­po­rat­ing more robots on their pro­duc­tion line and con­tin­ue the increased pro­cess­ing capabilities.

If you think that Uni­ver­sal Robots could be ben­e­fi­cial in your plas­tic and poly­mer pro­duc­tion, give Robots​.com rep­re­sen­ta­tives a call. They look for­ward to lis­ten­ing to the spe­cif­ic needs of their cus­tomers and find­ing the per­fect option for them based on their 25+ years of exper­tise. You can con­tact Robots​.com rep­re­sen­ta­tives online or at 877−762−6881.