What do the KUKA abbreviations represent?

KUKA, an acronym for Keller und Knap­pich Augs­burg, spe­cial­izes in the man­u­fac­tur­ing of indus­tri­al robots and automa­tion solu­tions. A lit­tle his­to­ry to bet­ter under­stand the mean­ing of the name. KUKA was found­ed in 1898, in Augs­burg, Ger­many by Johann Josef Keller and Jacob Knap­pich. It’s begin­ning focus was on house and street lights; they even­tu­al­ly grew and merged with part of Indus­trie-Werke Karl­sruhe AG to become Indus­trie-Werke Karl­sruhe Augs­burg Aktienge­sellschaft, or KUKA for short.

A lot of KUKA robots have abbre­vi­a­tions in their name to help delin­eate the job it spe­cial­izes in. If you aren’t cer­tain what those let­ters mean, look no fur­ther! We have pro­vid­ed a guide, below, to help clar­i­fy the mean­ing of the KUKA mod­el let­ters to aid in your selec­tion of the most per­fect robot for your automa­tion needs. 

HA= high accu­ra­cy, exam­ple: KUKA KR60

KS= shelf mount, exam­ple: KUKA KR30‑4 KS

F= foundry, exam­ple: KUKA KR60‑3 F

CR= clean­room, exam­ple: KUKA KR-30 – 3 CR

KS‑F= shelf mount, foundry, exam­ple: KUKA KR-30 – 3 KS F

PA= pal­letiz­ing, exam­ple: KUKA KR-180 PA

Press= press-to-press, exam­ple: KUKA KR 100 P

Arc= arc weld­ing, exam­ple: KUKA KR 6 arc

HW= hol­low wrist, exam­ple: KUKA KR‑5 – 2 arc HW

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