Superior Quality Welds and High Density Machine Tending with the New ABB IRB 1660ID

ABB made sure to answer their customer’s requests and demands when design­ing the new ABB IRB 1660ID. Late nights and intel­li­gent minds came togeth­er to cre­ate a robot that would increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, reduce cycle times, and deliv­er bet­ter work piece qual­i­ty. Accord­ing to Dr. Hui Zhang, Head of Glob­al Prod­uct Man­age­ment for ABB Robot­ics, ​“The ulti­mate goal was to cre­ate a supe­ri­or robot that pro­duced con­sis­tent qual­i­ty in arc weld­ing, as well as offer a fast, agile and reli­able machine tend­ing solution.”

Their dream and hard work became a real­i­ty with the new 1660ID. The desired out­come was not only achieved, but achieved with over­whelm­ing success. 

Customer’s demands have tru­ly been answered with the new, incred­i­bly fast, and ridicu­lous­ly agile ABB 1660ID robot. As men­tioned, the ABB 1660ID was designed for high­ly accu­rate, fast, and repeat­able path move­ments for cus­tomers seek­ing unre­strict­ed acces­si­bil­i­ty to gain max­i­mum productivity.

It is one of the most ver­sa­tile robots in its mid-size class and can pro­duce qual­i­ty arc weld­ing and reli­able machine tend­ing, espe­cial­ly for high-robot-den­si­ty work cells and/​or con­fined spaces. 

In addi­tion, ​“As a direct result of close col­lab­o­ra­tion with our cus­tomers, the IRB 1660ID also includes a new gen­er­a­tion of accu­rate, effi­cient and reli­able motors,” adds Zhang. ​“We spent a great deal of engi­neer­ing effort mak­ing the robot as rigid as pos­si­ble to bet­ter pro­tect it, and to equip it for the con­fined spaces in which it is designed to operate.”

These pow­er­ful motors, com­bined with the com­pact and pow­er­ful IP67 wrist, can help reduce cycle times by up to 10%. Also, ABB‘s True­MoveTM tech­nol­o­gy, com­bined with the new motion process ​“Accu­ra­cy mode,” can pro­vide +/- 0.05 mm path repeata­bil­i­ty for excep­tion­al weld­ing results. 

We aren’t done yet…Today’s qual­i­ty demands in arc weld­ing appli­ca­tions require heavy weld guns and bet­ter con­trol of the wire feed­er to secure high qual­i­ty prod­ucts at high vol­ume production.

The IRB 1660ID pro­vides all of the afore­men­tioned and more! Qual­i­ty arc weld­ing is ensured through its improved wire feed­ing con­trol to guar­an­tee high vol­ume pro­duc­tion. Also, heav­ier, more advanced, torch guns can be lift­ed as ABB made sure the 1660ID had a stronger, more rigid, upper arm lift­ing up to 6 kg. These traits all help the IRB 1660ID boast superb accu­ra­cy for high qual­i­ty weld­ing and eas­i­ly tack­le machine tend­ing in con­fined spaces. 

The IRB 1660ID’s com­pact and hol­low enabled the inte­gra­tion of the Dress­Pack. This helps pre­dict the cable move­ments and allow it to main­tain max­i­mum accel­er­a­tion and speeds with­out wor­ry­ing about any cable dam­ages or tan­gles. Addi­tion­al­ly, the Dress­Pack requires less floor space and brings a 50% main­te­nance reduc­tion cost.

All of these fea­tures make the IRB 1660ID the per­fect robot for work­ing in tight spaces or the answer for high den­si­ty cells. The inte­grat­ed Dress­Pack com­bined with the robust, com­pact wrist design, enable the pro­duc­tion of high den­si­ty cells to sim­pli­fy reori­en­ta­tion and to enable bet­ter acces­si­bil­i­ty. These cells can help to max­i­mize out­put as they oper­ate with unpar­al­leled reli­a­bil­i­ty, while also pro­vid­ing top qual­i­ty parts.

Safe­ty is also tak­en care of with ABB’s Robot­Stu­dio soft­ware which helps to envi­sion safe robot move­ments. This cre­ates a safer envi­ron­ment, while also reduc­ing the risk of col­li­sion, all of which enables the con­tin­u­ance of max speeds and accel­er­a­tions at all times, ulti­mate­ly giv­ing you more bang for your buck.

As you can see, ABB tru­ly answered the needs for a ver­sa­tile robot that is a top qual­i­ty arc welder while also tack­ling machine tend­ing with ease. The ABB IRB 1660ID was tru­ly thought­ful­ly designed and will be per­fect for your pro­duc­tion line. At Robots​.com, cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion is key, so we offer a war­ran­ty and offer com­pli­men­ta­ry tech sup­port on every robot pur­chase. Con­tact Robots​.com online or give us a call to talk to our experts about how we can help you inte­grate a 1660ID today; 877−762−6881.