CNC loading and unloading one-stop solution

Loading and unloading is one of the most widely used and mature scenarios for collaborative robots in the manufacturing industry. Loading and unloading undertake the task of connecting the flow of workpieces in different processes. Under the trend of transformation and upgrading in the manufacturing industry, traditional loading and unloading methods are no longer able to meet industry demands

 

Loading and unloading is one of the most widely used and mature scenarios for collaborative robots in the manufacturing industry.
Loading and unloading undertake the task of connecting the flow of workpieces in different processes. Under the trend of transformation and upgrading in the manufacturing industry, traditional loading and unloading methods are no longer able to meet industry demands

 

There are many drawbacks to traditional manual loading and unloading

■ High efficiency and low cost

Manual loading and unloading cannot meet the 24-hour production demand, and labor costs are high, which limits human physical fitness and reaction speed, making it difficult to significantly improve production efficiency.

■ High failure rate and great harm

Manual operation of loading and unloading requires workers to frequently come into contact with heavy machinery or materials, which can easily lead to fatigue. Improper operation or machine failure can cause damage to workpieces and work-related accidents, and the harsh environment can affect the health of workers.

■ Difficulty in ensuring consistency

Some device management scenarios require inserting or installing workpieces such as cylinders into feed holes or similar objects, or arranging them in a unified manner in fixtures and trays. Due to the high precision and strict error rate required for picking and placing operations, traditional manual labor is limited by personal technical level and status, resulting in low accuracy and consistency, which affects product quality stability and qualification rate.

■ Low automation flexibility

Traditional loading and unloading equipment is often designed for specific products or fixed processes. When the product changes, the equipment needs to be redesigned and adjusted, increasing costs and affecting production flexibility, which is not conducive to product structure adjustment.

IIMT Intelligent Collaborative Robot

The repetitive positioning accuracy of the IIMT Intelligent Manufacturing robotic arm can reach ± 0.02mm, and it operates continuously in both directions for 7 × 24 hours. It has achieved high rhythm production of loading and unloading of a single workpiece on the machine tool within 10 seconds, greatly improving the production efficiency and yield rate of the factory.

IIMT Intelligent Manufacturing Robot independently develops integrated joint technology with a compact structure and a simple and diverse programming system, which can meet the needs of planning complex motion paths in narrow spaces and can be quickly deployed. It can collaborate with automated production equipment to carry out operations within 1 hour, easily achieving multi link operation links and switching of multiple products, meeting the needs of the machining industry for short cycle and fast updates of production lines, and reducing the ROI cycle to within 1 year.

Similarly, traditional metal sheet metal bending operations also have higher requirements for product types, and bending machines are production equipment with higher risk categories, which have significant safety hazards. In order to improve work efficiency and ensure work safety, it is equally important to replace manual operations with the use of intelligent manufacturing robots for loading and unloading.

A customer from Australia specializes in the manufacturing of automotive components and industrial products, providing manufacturing solutions and developing engineering products for their clients. The customer received a batch of orders with various specifications of sheet materials, which need to be delivered within 3 months.

More than ten bending machines in the factory are fully powered, and different specifications of sheet materials and bending processes require continuous manual switching of bending machine programs, resulting in extremely slow production capacity improvement in the factory. Urgent reminders and recruitment difficulties have become unavoidable challenges for the responsible person.

IIMT personally visited the customer site and completed the planning, installation, and debugging for a month to ensure stable production and operation of the production line. With the core competitiveness of intelligent and flexible production, the scale of customer enterprises continues to expand.

The booming development trend of the manufacturing industry has increased market demand, which drives the development of collaborative robots. IIMT Intelligent Manufacturing will penetrate into customer industries and provide application solutions based on customer pain points. I believe that in the future, more and more customers will join forces with us to support the development of intelligence!