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News Release from: Delmia
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2004
National Steel Car selects robot
programming
National Steel Car, of Hamilton, Ontario, has selected Delmia's Igrip 3D robotic programming solution for offline robotic programming and simulation of its blast-cleaning robots.
National Steel Car, of Hamilton, Ontario, has selected Delmia's Igrip 3D robotic programming solution for offline robotic programming and simulation of its blast-cleaning robots National Steel Car will use Igrip 3D to eliminate tool collisions in a high-pressure abrasive blasting process that cleans freight cars for painting
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Delmia Igrip was recommended to National Steel Car by the manufacturer of its robot system, who has worked on previous robot programming projects with Delmia Corp's strategic business partner, Delfoi.
To implement the solution, Delfoi will create a special abrasive blasting application on top of Igrip, which helps the customer to quickly and easily create new blast-cleaning programs for their robots.
"Manual programming of robots inevitably leads to large amounts of nonproductive robot time", said Steve Kuzler, Electrical Engineer at National Steel Car.
"The ability to program offline and simulate a robot path prior to production will save us an enormous amount of time and eliminate the potential for collisions between robots, parts, tools and fixtures".
"In addition, the paint option allows us to develop and simulate the right blast pattern for different applications, improving system cycle time".
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