One of the most ovious scope/field of automation and robotizing is movement and sorting of materials.
For many production companies nowadays it is a challenge to find human workforce to handle the logistics of products with various sizes, shapes and cycle times. For them, automation is an efficient investment. Besides, implementation of a robotic system in this field is fairly simple since it probably does not require micro-millimeter-scale accuracy.
Robot manufacturers also realized the potential of the production sector – and a few of them have already developed special palletizing robot arms, which, unlike the traditional 6-axis robots, operate with 4 axes only – though without lacking any thorough technological background.
Automation prefers exactness, it is easier to move and orient a box. However, technology today offers excellent solutions for the optimum handling of objects with other dimensions like sacks or bags.
Key areas to pay attention to:
- material, size (of packaging), variance
- geometry (and its variance)
- weight (and its variance)
- packaging material consumption
- cycle time
- positioning
- layout
- stack size and weight
- buffering
- material flow (input, output)
- available space
- approach
- environmental conditions (dust, moisture, heat, etc.)
- manual and automatic modes
The following photos illustrate some characteristic solutions of Robot-X.
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