Automatic loading of machine tools
A cost-effective system also enables small and medium-sized companies to switch to automated loading of machine tools.
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At a contract manufacturer in sheet metal processing, a robot colleague takes over the grinding. This saves the company time and achieves high quality end products.
read more...Integration of robot-based production cells
Clamping technology for robot processing
The ISW at the University of Stuttgart researches the use of industrial robots for machining tasks and develops automation concepts that support the integration of robot-based production cells in companies.
read more...Plastic meets metal
Robot-based 3D printing on metallic base bodies: scientists at TU Braunschweig are researching the individual production of plastic-metal components. A newly developed process for surface structuring ensures a strong bond between metal and plastic.
read more...Robot recycles batteries
Used batteries from electric cars contain valuable raw materials that can still be used. To be able to recycle them, a research team from the Center for Digitized Battery Cell Production (ZDB) at Fraunhofer IPA is developing a robot cell with a wide variety of tools.
read more...Robot sales on the rise again
The number of industrial robots in factories worldwide has risen by 10 percent to a new record of around 3 million units - as reported by the International Federation of Robotics in the new "World Robotics 2021" yearbook.
read more...Equipping robots made easy
Highly flexible cables and hoses ensure that robot applications are supplied with energy, data and media.
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Robot integration made easy
"We are so small, there is no potential for robot automation here", "Robotics is expensive, complicated and difficult to implement." What is the truth behind these prejudices? The round table "The robot as a colleague" gets to the bottom of this.
read more...Automation in goods handling
ABB recently introduced FlexBuffer, a modular and customizable cell for the storage, buffering and sequencing of a wide variety of items.
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