Keeping a shiny finish with polishing robots

Man­u­fac­tur­ers today use automa­tion for all kinds of process­es in their shops. Of all the man­u­fac­tur­ers that use automa­tion, the auto­mo­bile indus­try may be the most heav­i­ly auto­mat­ed of them all. They have robots that weld cars and assem­ble cars – they even have pol­ish­ing robots to make sure those cars have a nice shiny fin­ish as they come off the line.

Robot­ic pol­ish­ing is impor­tant to car mak­ers because they tru­ly do fin­ish a prod­uct well, improv­ing the over­all aes­thet­ic qual­i­ty of the prod­uct. A pol­ish­ing robot can deliv­er a delib­er­ate, clean and con­sis­tent shine to every part of the work piece. This cuts down on errors or flaws in the fin­ish that can dam­age the val­ue of the piece in the marketplace.

Also, robot­ic pol­ish­ers are able to apply accu­rate and con­sis­tent pres­sure to the piece, where man­u­al appli­ca­tions may apply pres­sure heav­ier in one area than the oth­er, once again tak­ing away from the con­sis­ten­cy that gives the piece its flaw­less finish.

By automat­ing their pol­ish­ing appli­ca­tions with robot­ics, auto­mo­bile man­u­fac­tur­ers are able to keep up with their pro­duc­tion rates as well. For exam­ple, one online arti­cle stat­ed that Toy­ota pro­duces around 1,546 cars a day. It would not be pos­si­ble for human work­ers to pol­ish all those cars appro­pri­ate­ly in one day. While pol­ish­ing over 1,000 cars a day may not be pos­si­ble for a human, it is all in a day’s work for a robot that can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with­out need­ing downtime.

Over­all, pol­ish­ing robots save man­u­fac­tur­ers time and mon­ey, as do sev­er­al oth­er indus­tri­al robots that work in fac­to­ries worldwide.

Robots​.com, a cer­ti­fied inte­gra­tor of robot­ic pol­ish­ers from com­pa­nies like Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and KUKA, has sev­er­al mod­els avail­able for pur­chase and cus­tomiza­tion in our ware­house in Mar­i­on, Ohio. Our high­ly-skilled staff will work with you to design the per­fect robot­ic pol­ish­ing sys­tem for your facility’s needs.

Con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.