Whether the machine is a machining center, grinder, gauge, induction heater, washer or other machine, Motoman offers the right products (link to products page) for your project. Our experience covers a complete range of industries including automotive, transportation, construction, consumer products, and agricultural equipment supplying robots for a wide range of tasks.
Some believe that successful robotic automation is limited to high volume continuous process production like an automotive assembly line. Certainly many customers have been successful in this type of production, but the benefit of robotic automation in these applications may be limited by the longest cycle in the production line process.
In response to worldwide global competition, many job shops are turning to robotic automation to improve their competitiveness. One benefit of the batch process is that it’s independent and can be scheduled to run within the machine shop production schedule. This allows larger batches of parts to be setup to run unattended, increasing production with little or no labor input. If some part volumes are too small to justify automation, the parts could be ran with an operator and the cell setup to run unattended on second or third shift. This can provide production increases of up to 50% with little or no additional labor.
Unattended or limited support operation success is determined by how many parts (raw and finished) can be handled in the robot system to maintain its production. There are a number of items which must be considered during this analysis.
Automation success is completely different for a 10 second cycle time than a 15 minute cycle time. For some companies, success has been achieved by adding automation that cuts labor in half allowing an operator to service two machines rather than one. For others, success might mean having a robot system run attended for eight hours. Whatever your process or goal, Motoman has a solution for you.
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Medium Production Rates (10 seconds to 1 minute) |
Low production rates (1 minute and over) |
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