Wall-e running at full speed!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มิ.ย. 2023
- We're finally confident enough to have the robot (Wall-e as he's been named) running at full speed in and out of the machine to load and unload parts. Now I know why these industrial robots must be enclosed in a safety cage.
It would knock you to the ground in a heartbeat and just keep right on going!
After having the robot run at much, much slower speeds, it seems lightning fast now! The downside we find is that during the movement, the servo's make a whistling sound, and the guys in the shop always get caught off guard and think someone is doing it to get their attention!
These parts are a component of an aluminum hinge system assembly we manufacture for one of customers, and typically run in lots of 150pcs several times a year. On the next order we will be sure to produce a years worth of product in this automated machining cell, and ship from inventory rather than from an estimated lead time. This will cut costs and increase profits in two ways. One, by buying more material at a reduced cost due to the need for a higher quantity, and second by manufacturing these parts in a single set-up rather than several individual set ups throughout the year.
I can see this scenario playing out with several of the repeat production jobs we do throughout the year that have a proven sales record and with their longevity out in the field of service have little chance of being revised!
Enjoy!
Russ Crosby - President
Crosby Machine Company, Inc.
Melbourne Australia are watching you Russ. More power too you
This is a great starting point but as mentioned before, this needs to be palletised so you have multiple parts per cycle, but also why is the robot not ready with a new part when removing the completed part, it looks like it has two holders on the head
nice job.
Why not have all the items on one pallet then change pallets? Am I missing some thing?
The current set up won't allow for it. We're just getting started in this new venture, so lot's to learn. Thank you for the suggestion though!
I totally agree wit NicoThe Animal...with 10+ tool changes you have more time changing tools that cutting...a Pallet with 4 to 20 parts makes much more efficient use of time/machine and that machine setup is prefect for a Pallet.
Too much delay between actions
that's inefficient
jeez, only op1 built into this automation..? seems like a big waste of potential this set up can have to only be doing what it is doing.