Robot systems include a variety of equipment to keep operators/people safe around an active robot cell. Some of these physical safety devices include: EMERGENCY STOP buttons Safety fences, barriers, or chains Light curtains Interlocks Pressure mats Floor directional and safety…
Innovations in high-speed robotic vision applications have made printing and applying customized labeling efficient and fast. This type of application is perfect for any company where labels need to differ based on a variety of items such as price, weight,…
E-stop (emergency stop) push buttons, pull cords, and other e-stop devices are designed to be highly visible by using the standard red and yellow colors. These E-stop buttons and pull cords are positioned throughout the robot system on of a…
Loading Unloading Kitako-Shimada - Load and unload tasks are a very popular application in robotics. In most cases, these jobs have higher levels of safety risks like repetitive motion injuries or burns from removing parts that are too hot. Kitako-Shimada…
A food and beverage company wanted to automate their packaging lines with end-of-line palletizing. As their product count increases and pallet patterns get more complicated, the customer saw the need to change their current palletizing process. Customer Challenges – End-of-Line…
Using the Teach Pendant, you can develop programs that are stored in the teach pendant, and then, more easily and quickly ran when needed. One such program is a zero program. The zero program will run each axis of the…
Some have called bin picking the “holy grail” of robotic automation and it certainly is all the rage in automation circles. What production manager or plant manager doesn’t want to have unattended machine loading operations, so their increasingly scarce plant…
Latest Integration Project Overview - Automated Material Handling – Rolls of Insulation Motion Controls Robotics latest integration project is an automated material handling system for stacking rolls of insulation. This system was designed and integrated for a customer in the…
There is a small niche of robot applications where it makes great sense to mount the robot on a rail, providing an additional axis of motion to the robot and improving its reach/coverage. Tending multiple machines with a single robot…
Many customers purchasing a new FANUC robot are curious about what comes with the robot. There are basic changes among the different robot models in size of cables and controller, but our robot unboxing video of a M-10iA is a…
