Industrial Robot: Volume 15 Issue 4

Focusing on the clean‐room market

Precision Robotics of Woburn, Massachusetts, adopted a dedicated‐concept, flexible‐application policy from the start. Brian Rooks profiles the company and talks to its co‐founder…

Robot and logic controller in glass‐fibre applications

Marco Calandro

The ‘cut‐spray’ stage in glass‐reinforced plastic processing has been automated by using the robot as a peripheral of a PLC.

Robotic manufacture of sheet‐metal enclosures

R.J. Stamp, C.F. Earl, P. Holland, N.W. Hird

An automated sheet‐metal manufacturing systems for low‐volume production utilises an industrial robot to move blanks from a store to a press brake.

OLP: the key to expanding robot usage

Gregory Pillon

The very precision of robots restricts their flexibility. Now a Canadian company is breaching these boundaries.

Robot grippers in systems projects

P. Schneider, W. Servis

Careful integration of robot, end‐effectors, peripheral hardware and software are crucial to successful robot applications.

Integrated systems for off‐line programming

J.A. Bennaton

Planning robot cells, and proving and generating robot programs, can be swiftly and efficiently achieved with graphical simulation.

Systematic optimisation of a robot arm structure

F. Feyerabend

To achieve high working speed and high positional accuracy, the weight of a robot arm must be reduced.