Robotic solutions to increase the efficiency in foundry industries

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Active since 1896 in the field of building, railway and aviation, the Japanese giant KAWASAKI started the production of the first industrial robot in Japan, in 1968. With the advent of Solid state technology & the drive systems including motors, substantial technological development &improvements in the mechanical, Electrical and electronic side of the Robot including the Peripheral devices have made this Robotic technology most efficient, dependable and affordable.

Globally acknowledged manufacturing Leader Kawasaki have always maintained the common thread of AS programming language, which allows the creation of versatile and powerful applications by using already developed electronic, electrical and mechanical hardwareand thus the Compact Robots from Kawasaki are quick and precise than before.


Robot Kawasaki RS05L
(6 axes, capacity 5Kg,
radius 900mm) (fig. 2)

The future is now
Kawasaki focusedthe future strategies on important sectors, such as the Metal, Medical& Pharmaceutical, & Industrial Manufacturing Industries. With two anthropomorphic models RS05L & RS05N which are extremely fast, accurate, versatile, and characterized by low-energy consumption, Kawasaki covers high specificity as for protection levels, emissions and washing with agents, such as VHP.

Low Energy Consumption &High Compactness of Robot Controller Unit
The total power consumption of Kawasaki Robot is less than half compare to the Robot models available globally in the market. The size of the Controller Unit is only 500X420X250 mm and a 230 VAC single-phase supply is required to run this Controller Unit. The new Kawasaki E71 Control Units (fig. 3) are convincing examples of energy efficiency and compactness.

Fastest & Quick Robots
The tests on the new Robots on real sample cycles in Pick & Place applications show that the performance difference in terms of cycle time between a traditional conventional robot and a quick Kawasaki anthropomorphic robot, shows that the Anthropomorphic Robots are by far superior.
Technically Superior but Most Economical Robots

Using solid state electronics and advanced technology, a anthropomorphic Robot is far cheaper than a conventional 6 Axis Robot available in the market place. The technical superiorities and ergonomic design make Kawasaki RS05N and RS05L most suitable for todays industries.

Accuracy of the Robots
The accuracy is within +/- 0.02 mm: this is the point repeatability of the new Robot is constant over time, thanks to the sophisticated engineering.

Immunity to Extreme Environmental conditions
The excellent design technology of Kawasaki robots make them suitable to any aggressive environments and hence suitable to Indian working conditions. The parts such as the wrist conforms to IP67, the arm conforms to IP65 standards. The pressurized mechanical unit, electro valve are mounted on the Robot Arm. Hence these Robots do not need any environmental protection like such as Air Condition chamber etc like all other Industrial Robots.

Versatile Robots suitable to complex applications
A six-axis Robot clearly allows creative designing solutions.Kawasaki AS programming language is easy understandable and provides series of useful instructions for the most demanding applications. The Multitask function feature allows the system to sign in and operate through the dialogues via Ethernet in TCP/IP and UDP to supervisors and additional vision systems, without any additional controls.

An Easy Understandable interface between Operator Teach Pendent & Touch Screens
Kawasaki programming keyboard enables the creation of an operator interface panel (fig. 4) with buttons, selectors, Text boxes, & are managed on a large coloured Touch screen. The programming of Kawasaki robot is very simple and easy.

KAWASAKI Robots with Yf03 and Ys02 Parallel kinematics
The application of anthropomorphic robot to the new parallel kinematic YF03N and YS02N robots completes the range that are suitable to all Packaging and assembly operations, which requires much higher speed for excellence in operation.

The YF03N Model has a wide work area, it is extremely fast and suitable to canning and handling on large work areas, even in multiple tracking with vision systems on large work areas (fig. 8), designed to read Data Matrix codes on packaging (fig. 9).

Kawasaki YF03N Robot
Kawasaki YF03N Robot (4 axes),
capacity 3kg, diameter 1300 mm,
depth 500 mm) (fig. 5).

An important feature of both model is the kinematic structure which mounts the axis 4 motor on the axis, improving its reliability (fig. 10). Including an air rotary distributor, axis 4 lightens the gripping device and enables a higher actual load. Carbon fibre and titanium alloys are used to manufacture these robots with extreme performances, at very attractive economic conditions.

Reliable Robots
All Kawasaki Robots are designed on the basis of very high reliability standards (MTBF 120,000 hours with MTTR 15 minutes). {Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and the valve area measured in Japan &Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) – Valve measured by performing Troubleshooting test campaigns in Kawasaki laboratories}

Summing up…
The Technological advances and the unique flexibilities for the fast anthropomorphic Kawasaki robots allow many innovative usage of Robotic solutions. With the Robot integration done by TIESSE ROBOT spa, Italy,( a sister concern of Kawasaki Robot located in Italy), Automation India Welding Technology Pvt Ltd, New-Delhi is committed to bring these advance manufacturing technologies in India and to provide its customers with the experience gained in the application of Kawasaki robots and in the development of application software and vision systems (fig. 11) which make the use of such robots even more flexible.

For more information
Web: www.automationindiawelding.com

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