By reliably loading and unloading dunnage trays {that a} UR cobot can persistently entry, this versatile CNC machine-tending instrument offers a standardized platform for storing, staging, and delivering elements right into a place that the UR cobot can attain for loading and unloading.
PBC Linear (Pacific Bearing Firm), a worldwide chief in linear movement options, is happy to announce that it’ll show deeper CNC integration for its Utilized Cobotics Cobot Feeder at FABTECH 2023, within the Common Robots (UR) Sales space #B17063 in Chicago, September 11-14.
The Cobot Feeder, a CNC machine feeding utility equipment that delivers and levels elements to be positioned right into a machining course of, acquired UR+ accomplice certification earlier this 12 months. It features a base storage-and-retrieval unit with a UR cobot pedestal, an enclosed metal rack dunnage tower with a 17-tray capability that safely shops as much as 50 kilos of fabric, an HMI touchscreen show for straightforward elevate management, Ethernet IP, Modbus, and commonplace UR cobot communications. By reliably loading and unloading dunnage trays {that a} UR cobot can persistently entry, this versatile CNC machine-tending instrument offers a standardized platform for storing, staging, and delivering elements right into a place that the UR cobot can attain for loading and unloading.
The Cobot Feeder demonstration combines a UR10e with a Flexxbotics FlexxCNC™ to regulate the method of loading and unloading trays of PBC Linear FL-12 bearings right into a pneumatic vise. The modular, versatile, and simply re-taskable Cobot Feeder empowers one machinist to do the work of as much as eight whereas additionally growing the quantity of uncooked supplies obtainable to cobot machines tending workcells.
“By growing the quantity of uncooked supplies to a workcell, the Cobot Feeder’s 17-tray, high-density, part-storage answer permits a machining, welding, stamping, forming, or deburring heart to function for longer durations of time with out human interplay, considerably growing productiveness by as much as 300% or extra,” explains Beau Wileman, Utilized Cobotics and 3D Platform Product Supervisor, PBC Linear. “In lots of circumstances, this implies a cobot workcell working 8 hours a day throughout regular enterprise operations can proceed to work by means of shifts two and three, offering lights-out operation across the clock. This significantly will increase the cobot workcell’s productiveness, whereas overcoming the ‘labor hole’ in machine tending manufacturing operations.” Go to us at FABTECH within the UR Sales space #B17063 in Chicago, September 11-14.
About Common Robots Common Robots is a number one supplier of collaborative robots (cobots) used throughout a variety of industries and in schooling. Based in 2005 and headquartered in Odense, Denmark, Common Robots goals to create a world the place folks work with robots, not like robots. Its mission is easy: Automation for anybody. Anyplace. Since introducing the world’s first commercially viable cobot in 2008, Common Robots has developed a product portfolio reflecting a spread of reaches and payloads and has offered over 50,000 cobots worldwide. An intensive ecosystem has grown across the firm’s cobot know-how creating innovation, selection for patrons, and a variety of elements, kits and options to swimsuit each utility. For extra data, please go to www.universal-robots.com
About PBC Linear PBC Linear has been a proud member of the Rockford-area manufacturing neighborhood since 1983. The corporate has created and patented modern linear movement options and has vastly expanded its know-how, experience, and providers to turn out to be an entire linear movement producer. Via its partnerships in Europe and Asia and its worldwide community of distributors, PBC Linear has positioned itself as a trusted world chief in bearing merchandise and linear movement know-how.