Cobots have been introduced into many businesses in order to relieve staff of repetitive, boring, and time-consuming jobs while introducing speed, safety, and flexibility.
One area in particular that has benefited from cobots is palletising where the flexibility and robustness of cobots has been utilised in many industries. Cobots with innovative grippers, computer vision and machine-learning systems are capable of picking up a wide range of objects from the most delicate to more robust items.
OnRobot have introduced a range of end arm tooling and other products specifically for cobots and several of these are particularly beneficial when applied to palletising.
The OnRobot Lift100 is a long-stroke, high-payload robot elevator that adds a versatile seventh axis to traditional and collaborative six-axis robot arms. The Lift100 has minimal deflection, even with higher loads and at high speeds, to ensure precise positioning of boxes in palletising applications. Its integrated safety features, with stop functionality (TÜV certification pending), allows collaborative deployment with human workers (once a risk assessment has been performed).
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The 2FGP20 electric gripper offers a wide stroke and customisable arms to easily handle heavy or open boxes, shelf-ready products, and other containers such as Euro containers (plastic KLT bins) that can’t be handled with traditional vacuum grippers. Like all OnRobot electric grippers, the 2FGP20 provides fast, out-of-the-box deployment with intuitive programming. An integrated vacuum gripper places slip sheets without changing the gripper or requiring another handling method. The 2FGP20 gripper has a versatile payload of 20kg (including gripper), making it ideal for handling food boxes or pouches and tetra-packed items, as well as fast-moving consumer goods such as toiletries, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products.
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Since the VG10 doesn’t require a compressor or air supply, it’s compact and easy to move around, bringing flexibility to your production line and saving maintenance cost. It has flexible arms and adjustable vacuum enabling the VG10 to handle a variety of objects in many different sizes. It’s a dual gripper – you can control the right and left sides of the vacuum gripper independently of one another, further increasing efficiency on your production line.
Seamless integration with the robot of your choice. The gripper comes with dual grip functionality, tool changer and a variety of typical vacuum cups. Additionally, there are many third party vacuum cups available on the market to fit every application.
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The VGC10 electrical compact vacuum gripper has unlimited customization possibilities. It has changeable suction cup options too for nearly any application need. Smaller than the VG10, the VGC10 can fit into tight environments to extend your automation possibilities. And at half the weight of the VG10 but with the same payload, the VGC10 can lift small, odd-shaped, and heavy objects even with a smaller robot arm. The VGC10 features two independently controlled air channels that allow it to act as a dual gripper with pick-up and release in the same action, further increasing efficiency and reducing cycle time. With no compressor or air supply needed, this compact electrical gripper is easy to move, and simple programming makes it quick and easy to redeploy for greater production flexibility.
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With payloads up to 20kg (44.1 lbs), the OnRobot VGP20 is the world’s most powerful electric vacuum gripper. It is ideal for quickly and cost-effectively automating the palletising of cardboard boxes, as well as handling bulky, porous, and irregularly shaped objects. The VGP20 allows unlimited customisation, so it can automate a wide range of applications that traditionally required pneumatic grippers, but at a fraction of the cost and complexity. The VGP20 can save up to 90% on operating and maintenance costs compared to traditional pneumatic gripper deployments.
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With the OnRobot Eyes you can now easily sort, pick and place unstructured applications with high reliability using any robot arm. Eyes can be mounted on the robot wrist or externally, with position adjustments to adapt to your application, and integrates seamlessly with the robot interface and gripper through the OnRobot Quick Changer. Deployment is fast, so there is minimal downtime for changeovers to new products or processes. One-picture calibration and part recognition takes just minutes, and programming is intuitive and fast. And with Eyes’ advanced, affordable 2.5D vision, you get depth perception and the ability to stack parts, without adding complexity.
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The Pallet Station is a mechanical guide for pallets in a pallet application. A digital “Pallet present” signal is available, and the indication lamp shows the status of the signal. The Pallet station is normally integrated with Lift100 and the Palletising application software with either one or two Pallet stations. The Pallet station has the flexibility to be mechanically assembled for a right or a left setup, dependent on the actual application. The sturdy design can withstand hits from forklifts or trucks
To show the possibilities first hand and simplistic nature of collaborative robots and OnRobot EOAT SP Elements can arrange to demo on-site with clients. This will also allow us to demonstrate that no previous robot programming experience is required.
Braden Henderson – [email protected] – 07761514749
