Product category:
Robotics, Handling and Storage
News Release from: TM Robotics (Europe)
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 August 2006
Robots show off conveyor tracking at
Motek
TM Robotics will be demonstrating an innovative conveyor and vision tracking system at Motek this year.
TM Robotics, the firm responsible for the sales, marketing and support of Toshiba Machine's industrial robots throughout Europe, will be demonstrating an innovative conveyor and vision tracking system at Motek this year Based on two of the company's TH450 SCARA robots connected to a standard industrial vision system, it will demonstrate not only the function of tracking items as they move along a conveyor, but also the robot's ability to determine the parts' orientation and discriminate between different products
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As a handling and assembly show, Motek is the perfect place to demonstrate our new system", explained Nigel Smith Managing Director of TM Robotics.
"I believe it will find applications in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, packaging and food and electronics, machinery and equipment manufacturing and automotive component handling".
With the new conveyor tracking system it is possible to construct an inexpensive and high speed line using existing industrial vision sensors, linked via industry-standard Ethernet.
The robots' movements can be interpolated to the conveyors direction and speed; therefore products can be picked without ever needing to stop the conveyor.
The vision sensor which provides the part co-ordinate data, can be positioned anywhere on the conveyor, upstream of the robots.
Parts are then picked as they enter the robots' working area.
The system automatically identifies each work piece and can also perform part sharing or discriminative handling of the items between several robots on the same conveyor.
The system has also been designed for multiple conveyors - for example, the conveyor tracking synchronisation can be executed on one conveyor for picking a part and then synchronised to a second conveyor for placing the part.
Examples of the extensive Toshiba Machine TH SCARA range and Cartesian robots are also on show at the stand.
The TH series offers arm length from 250 to 1050mm and can carry payloads from 3 to 20kg, with a positional accuracy of between 0.01 and 0.03mm.
These are extremely quick, accurate and cost effective, yet have extensive functionality.
They are ideally suited to the handling and assembly of components and can position parts with extremely high levels of precision.
TM Robotics will be on Stand 1326 at Motek, from 26th to 29th September, 2006, at the Sinsheim Exhibition Centre. Request free introductory details about products from TM Robotics (Europe) ...
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