Werkendam – Noordenne Steel in Werkendam puts at the bending machine of steel reinforcement in a flexible robot. The enhanced machine is controlled by intelligent software and saves an employee.
Dekker Machines and Service is the supplier of the robot, which has been adapted by the company Schnell. The robot takes bent steel reinforcement of a bending machine and explains the brackets ready for packaging or bundling on a conveyor. “Normally there are two employees of such bending machine,” says André Dekker of the Oosterhoutse Dekker Machines and Service. “The first picks up the stirrups of the machine, the second stacks and packaged. The robot takes an act of them. As a result, just one operator needed. He is more than before process operator. The machine now sets the pace. The robot receives commands from the machine and functions as ‘slave’ which clamps the brackets with grippers and put on tape. “
The operator should be twice a day role with 5 tons of coiled wire of 12 or 16 millimeter diameter change. The machine directs the wire, cut to length and bend the bracket. “The robot then picks the bracket. We have never seen him essentials your smartphone needs. But it is possible for a camera to provide the robot, so he can adjust if necessary, “said Dekker.
The robot is a product of Fanuc from Japan. It is of the type APPS (Advanced Picking Packing System). “Originally intended for repeatable work like stacking boxes,” said Dekker. “But he is now further developed. The combination with intelligent software is new. But we have to operate kept simple. “It is possible to give complicated commands, for example, a series of brackets, and to stacking. The operator joins the brackets with stitching. If the conveyor fill up unexpectedly, then stop the machine. Around the robot is an area protected by lasers. Outside that area, everyone can freely run, but someone approaches the robot, then he goes to work slower. An employee comes closer, the machine stops.
According to Dekker makes the use of the robot for at least 25 per cent increase in efficiency. The production is less downtime and furthermore the work is a lot safer
Publication date:. 09-12-2014 14:52
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