Industrial Automation Magazine India

Robotic Pressbrake Tending

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

DIFACTO Robotics and Automation, has offer Tending. Increased throughput, reduced cycle time, better and consistent quality of the finished product; such are the requirements of any manufacturing industry, in order to stay ahead of the competition. One such manufacturer approached DiFACTO with an interesting idea of using a robot for tending a press brake. In addition, the complete design for gripper, centering table, flipping station, layout preparation, plc logic, list of inputs & outputs had to be provided to the customer. The press brake application throws out a unique set of challenges for the robot integration.

• Large variation in sheet sizes : The customer requested DiFACTO to incorporate a large range of sheet sizes in a single cell. In addition a common gripper had to be designed to accommodate similar sized sheets, to reduce the number of grippers in order to reduce the investments.
• Robot selection constraint : Selecting a suitable robot was not an option to DiFACTO as the customer had in large numbers a particular make of robot and insisted that we use the same robot for the application.
• Relative age of the robot : The robots meant to be used in this application were from an older generation and lacked basic documentation such as setup, operating and maintenance manuals.

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