Robots to Perform Material Handling Jobs
This is an interesting piece of news for material handling industry that is witnessing revolutionary changes. Until recently, a strong work force was needed to perform the machinery work. Now robots are being used to do such jobs and improve the efficiency as well as save time and cost. Minco Manufacturing Inc. refurbishes drum units and Teflon-coated fuser rollers for copiers. When the company struggled to keep costs under control, it began using robots to load and unload some of its automated lathe cells. Recently, it has purchased 16 additional robots from Staubli Corp.
Assembly Magazine reports that -
At one cell, three separate RX130 robots work in concert, with two of the robots feeding parts to four end-finishing lathes, while a middle robot services a fifth finishing lathe. All that remains for the cell’s human operator is to stage the raw material, remove full transfer totes of finished parts and perform quality checks.
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