Does your factory need sealing robot automation?

There are sev­er­al ben­e­fits to bring­ing seal­ing robot­ics to your fac­to­ry. How­ev­er, there is a big­ger ques­tion that you need to answer before you ever begin automat­ing with seal­ing robots – is your fac­to­ry a good can­di­date for seal­ing robot automation?

There are sev­er­al fac­tors about robot­ic seal­ing that can be seem as dis­ad­van­tages or lim­it­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, depend­ing on the facil­i­ty being used. Some of the lim­it­ing fac­tors can be things like parts pre­sen­ta­tion, amount of dis­sim­i­lar parts, amount of mate­r­i­al required, size and shape of parts and dif­fer­ing mate­ri­als for parts.

Basi­cal­ly, before decid­ing to auto­mate with robot­ic seal­ing sys­tems, you need to con­sid­er your cur­rent pro­duc­tion mod­el, and how it may need to be changed to allow for the inte­gra­tion of seal­ing robot­ics. Can you have part repeata­bil­i­ty? Do you have pieces that will be man­u­fac­tured over and over again? Are the parts too small or two large for a robot­ic seal­ing appli­ca­tion? These are some of the ques­tions you will have to answer, and you will pos­si­bly have to change your pro­duc­tion mod­el to fit the robot, instead of hav­ing the robot fit the model.

How­ev­er, while there are some lim­i­ta­tions, there are also sev­er­al advan­tages to hav­ing robot­ic seal­ing in your facil­i­ty. Two of those ben­e­fits are an increased qual­i­ty and decreased mate­r­i­al costs. The qual­i­ty of the seal­ing process is enhanced with robot­ics because there is con­sis­tent cov­er­age all around the area where sealant is applied. This is not always the case with man­u­al appli­ca­tions. Also, because of this con­sis­ten­cy, there is less sealant used dur­ing the robot­ic seal­ing appli­ca­tion, which cuts down on the amount of sealant need­ed for production.

All in all, if your fac­to­ry and pro­duc­tion mod­el can han­dle seal­ing robot inte­gra­tion, your com­pa­ny can reap the ben­e­fits of this kind of automation.

Robots​.com, a cer­ti­fied inte­gra­tor for Motoman, KUKA, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and Fanuc robot­ics, has many robot­ic seal­ing mod­els avail­able in our Mar­i­on, Ohio facil­i­ty. Our part­ner­ships with these robot­ics com­pa­nies gives us access to all the mod­els they have avail­able, and we are able to cus­tomize them into unique sys­tems to fit any pro­duc­tion lay­out or design.

For more infor­ma­tion about automat­ing with seal­ing robots, con­tact Robots​.com online or at 877−762−6881.