Machinery automation will improve a company’s competitive advantage, reduce production costs, and improve product quality. The most obvious benefit of automation is that it saves labor costs and takes manual workers out of hazardous environments, but it also saves energy and materia

Industrial robots have been around in full force since the 1980’s. It was during that time that manufacturers realized that by automating their processes like welding, material handling, and material removal, they could save money while speeding up their applications. One such model

Material handling applications are some of the most common applications used in the manufacturing industry today. Whether it is assembly, palletizing, or packaging, businesses all over the world have automated these applications to improve their productivity. One robot model, the Fa

The Fanuc R2000iA series of robots are by far some of the biggest robots constructed by Fanuc today. These heavy payload robots perform functions like material handling and material removal with the greatest of ease, even on large parts. However, it is the small parts inside the rob

Once they were blind, but now they can see. Increased accuracy of vision guidance systems ensures increased robotic accuracy. While vision doesn’t make robots self-aware, it gives them the ability to locate parts to be picked up, determine where to apply a weld, inspect assembled pa

RAMTEC, which stands for Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative, opened recently in Marion, Ohio, in partnership with Marion Technical College, Tri-Rivers Career Center, and The Ohio State University at Marion to bring needed robotic manufacturing skill

Like other material handling robots, while the movements of the Fanuc M6iB may seem very simple, the internal workings of the machine are actually very complex. Without the motors, the speed reducers and the cables, this robot wouldn’t be picking things up and putting them down day

Like the Motoman SV3X, the Motoman SV3XL is a robot that is capable of not only welding or material handling, but both. However, the Motoman SV3XL is the long reach model of the robot, which means that it has different internal workings than its sister, the SV-3X. But, like her sist

While some robots can only perform welding or handling applications, some robots can do both. The Motoman SV3X is one of those robots. The SV3X has a wide work envelope and can perform assembly, packaging and arc welding, along with other applications. But, what is going on inside t

Manual drilling can be dangerous and exhausting work. Robotic drilling provides a cost-effective and safe alternative to using human workers for drilling. As drilling becomes automated, cost and waste are cut while cycle times are increased. End-of-arm tooling is customizable to mee

When a manufacturer chooses to automate a routing application, his productivity will increase will precision and accuracy will increase. The routing process removes material from a work piece, for either uniformity or aesthetic purposes. Robotic routing ensures a quick and efficient

Robotic Production Technology offers the RPT RoboTrim router trimming solution. It is designed for thermoformers, injection molders, blow molders, and rotational molders. RPT has an exclusive partner in Fanuc for routing and waterjet cutting automation for non-metallic materials in

A spindle motor is a small, high-precision, reliable electric motor within a hard drive that rotates the shaft (spindle) on which the platters are mounted. The platter is used to store data. Hard disk drive spindle motors are mounted in a single unit, and spin the platters at a con

Instead of hand-held routing, tool paths can be controlled via CNC routers or robotic automation. This type of routing increases throughput and decreases costs for plastics manufacturers. Fanuc-based robots are used in the RPT RoboTrim router trimming solution. Robotic Production Te

The Motoman SK-16M robot is one of many robots in the SK line of Motoman robots that perform welding, removal and handling tasks. The SK-16M, like many robots, is made up of a complex set of parts that work together to improve production, including AC servo motors, timing belts, spe

Industrial robots play a key role in the manufacturing of many, if not all, consumer goods today. We know what they make, but what are they made of? Essentially, robots, like the SK120 by Motoman, are made up of six axes. For Motoman, those six axes are the S, L, U, B, R and T axes.

Robots like the Motoman UP200 have to be maintained regularly so they will continue to function properly. There are some parts, like timing belts, speed reducers and wrist unit that may need to be replaced due to frequent use, and the drive unit, made up on of the servomotors and th

The K6 robot, a material handling and welding robot from Motoman, is made up of six axes – the S, L, U, B, R and T axes. The axes have several parts that contribute to the overall operation of the robot. These parts are the gears, the AC servo motors, the battery unit, the internal

The Motoman UP130 robot, like many robots in the Motoman line, has several parts that work as a team to increase a manufacturer’s productivity. While the S, L, U, R, B and T axes are important in their own right, it is the parts contained within those axes that take control of the e

The Motoman UP50 robot, a material handling and material removal robot, has many parts that work as a team to perform its applications. These parts include the timing belts, the speed reducers, the AC servomotors and the internal cables.Every Motoman UP-50 robot has timing belts on