2. Equipment maintenance requires workers to stand in front of CNC machine tools, injection molding machines or other similar equipment for a long time, so as to pay attention to the operation requirements of the machine at any time, such as changing tools or supplementing raw materials. This process takes a long time and is very boring for the operator.
The use of cooperative robots not only liberates employees, but also enables a cooperative robot to maintain multiple machines and improve productivity. Nursing cooperative robot needs I/O docking hardware of specific equipment. These hardware will prompt the robot when it enters the next production cycle or needs to replenish raw materials.
3. The packaging and palletizing of products belong to a subclass of the pick-and-place category. Before leaving the factory, products need to be properly prepared for transportation, including shrink packaging, box assembly and loading, box sorting and pallet placement for transportation. This kind of work has a high repetition rate and contains some small loads, which is very suitable for using cooperative robots instead of manual work. Rapid product update is the key to high and low capacity mixed batch production enterprises. This application needs to use conveyor belt tracking to synchronize the movement of robot and conveyor belt. For products with inconsistent appearance, it is also necessary to combine visual system when applying.
4. Machining operation refers to any operation process that requires the use of tools to operate the workpiece. Cooperative robots are usually used in gluing, distributing and welding processes. Each of these machining tasks requires the use of tools to repeatedly complete a fixed path. If these tasks use new employees, they need to invest a lot of time in training to meet the requirements of finished products. After the cooperative robot is used, it can be copied to other robots by completing programming on one robot. At the same time, the cooperative robot also solves the problems of workers' precision and repetitive operation. The traditional welding robot system usually requires the operator to have very professional knowledge of robot programming and welding.
5. Manual trimming operation must use hand tools, and the operation process is usually laborious. The vibration generated by the tool may also cause harm to the operator. Collaborative robots can provide the strength, repeatability and accuracy needed for finishing. The types of finishing that robots can complete include polishing, grinding and deburring. Through manual teaching or computer programming, robots can be taught to complete corresponding actions. The force control system of cooperative robot makes the robot more durable. Through the end effector or the built-in force sensing device, the finishing of parts with different sizes can be realized.
6. Finally, the cooperative robot can also check the quality of parts. This process usually includes comprehensive inspection of finished parts, high-resolution picture inspection of precision machined parts, and comparison and confirmation of parts and CAD models. Fixing multiple high-resolution cameras on the cooperative robot can realize the automation of the quality inspection process and quickly obtain the inspection results. High-quality inspection can be achieved by using cooperative robots for inspection.