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Citation
(2002), "e1.5 million robotic welding system order", Industrial Robot, Vol. 29 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2002.04929eab.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
e1.5 million robotic welding system order
e1.5 million robotic welding system order
Keywords: Welding, Robots
An order worth in excess of e1.5 million has been received by Motoman Robotics (UK), Banbury, for the supply of three robotic arc welding cells to the Bulwell, Nottinghamshire works of Caterpillar, the US construction plant manufacturing giant.
Three gantry-type cells were to be delivered by the end of June this year (2002), having been ordered as recently as April. Two will be identical, each comprising two 6m gantries carrying two 6-axis UP6 welding robots apiece with vertical Z-axis movement, together with a 2 tonne servo manipulator. A total of eight welding robots will thus be deployed on manufacturing the frame of the legendary backhoe loader (see Plate 1).
The third gantry welding cell, also with X/Z axes and again with two inverted UP6 robots, but this time equipped with a two-station, 3 tonne capacity positioner, is for production of sub-assemblies for the same product.
Plate 1
Gentry-mounted Motoman UPG robots similar to those to be installed at
Caterpillar
Turnkey responsibility for the project is with Comau, which is integrating the Motoman equipment using automated guided vehicles for transporting the tack-welded assembles to the arc welding cells.
Contact: John D'Angelillo MD, Motoman Robotics (UK) Ltd, Unit 2, Johnson Park, Wildmere Road, Wildmere Industrial Estate Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 3JU, UK.Tel: +44(0)1295 272755. Fax: +44(0)1295 267127; E-mail: johnd'angelillo@motoman.co.uk Web site: www.motoman.se