Schuler :: Drefs Roboter & Automation

Shanghai, China:

Subsequent to a competitor of ours starting the robot project but then declaring it to be infeasible.

Equipping and emptying of two hydroforming (internal high pressure) presses using 3 Kuka robots.
The robots operate in a network. That means that 2 robots alternately reach into the working area inside the press
Cycle time optimisation from 1min:56 sec, to the required 1min:25 sec.
Implementation of an automatic home strategy (automatic home strategy = no matter where one of the robots is stopped in the programme sequence, a home position can be requested on the system. The robots will then move, without crashing, to their home position and can be started again from there.)

The special feature in this case was that a special strategy was necessary – depending on the gripper load – so that the robots always ended up with an empty gripper in the home position. And the entire system could be restarted without manual intervention by the worker.

Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China:

Equipping and emptying of 4 hydraulic presses using 5 ABB robots.
This system is used for forging aluminium rims.

Rajkot, Gujarat, India:

Equipping a hydraulic forging press with a Kuka robot
Handling workpieces weighing up to 360 kg and having a temperature of 1200 °C, which were partly held by the Kuka robot while being formed in the press.

With outside temperatures of 45 °C and immensely high humidity, this was the most physically demanding task so far :-)

Rajkot, Gujarat, India:

Equipping and emptying a hydraulic press using two Kuka robots.
The special feature here was that both robots engaged with the press from the same side and at the same time.
That means that they shared the workspace within the press.

Kandla, India:

Equipping and emptying of three hydraulic presses, each with a Kuka robot.
Handling steel rounds (round, up to approx. 1 cm thick and a diameter of up to 1.5 m)
The entire handling process is performed using vacuum gripping technology. realisiert.