Industrial Robot: Volume 18 Issue 1

IGM Give Ayrshire Metal Products A Smooth Profile: IN WHAT IS CLAIMED TO BE THE UK'S FIRST FLEXIBLE ROBOT PLASMA CUTTING CELL, IGM PROFILE TRUCK CHASSIS MEMBERS

Clive Loughlin

Irvine based Ayrshire Metal Products plc have come a long way since their origins in the wooden shipbuilding industry. Many of the changes have occurred in the last three years as…

ROBOTIC SANDBLASTING AT SNCF

Anna Kochan

A robotic solution is helping French railways (SNCF) to maintain the armatures of its electric traction engines. During its working life of 20–25 years, a normal SNCF traction…

TWO HANDS SPEED UP DEBURRING: TWO MANIPULATORS AND A VISION SYSTEM ARE USED TO SPEED UP THE DEBURRING OF CASTINGS

H. Lehtinen, R. Soudunsaari, P. Voho

This article describes a study that has been made on the automation of deburring in a foundry. Circular castings weighing up to 20kg are deburred before delivery in order to make…

PERESTROIKA AND OFF‐LINE WELDING: WITH OVER 90 KNOWN ROBOT PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS THE DEVELOPMENT OF OFF‐LINE PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES MUST TACKLE THE GENERAL PROBLEMS

V. Gorbachev, V. Lipping, A. Dryomov

Progress in machine building is connected with computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) development. An essential part of CIM is a computer aided design (CAD) system for off‐line…

DAY OF THE TRIPOD: DEMAUREX'S THREE‐LEGGED ROBOT HAS THE SPEED AND AGILITY TO TACKLE A DEMANDING PACKAGING APPLICATION

Anna Kochan

The operators said it wouldn't last three months. But, one year later, the robot installed by Swiss company Sandherr Packaging is as fast and efficient as it was in the beginning.