Smooth Operators
Solutions are automatically navigating through the shop floor to tend machines and perform tasks alongside human coworkers.
Posted: July 12, 2021
MATERIAL HANDLING
MOVE 11,000 POUNDS AUTOMATICALLY OR MANUALLY VIA A DRIVER
The EZS 350a NA automated guided vehicle (AGV) from Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany) adds precision navigation technology to the company’s standard electric truck to provide transport automatically or manually in mixed operations with manual trucks and pedestrians.
SMALL-PAYLOAD COBOT PROVIDES INDUSTRIAL SPEED AND COBOT SAFETY
The 6-axis Racer-5 Cobot from Comau (Turin, Italy) combines flexibility and collaborative safety features with high repeatability and accuracy.
AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT TUGGER TOWS 15,000 POUNDS
The Max N15 from AutoGuide Mobile Robots (North Reading, MA) is a modular autonomous mobile robot (AMR) tugger capable of transporting up to 15,000 pounds.
AGV/AMR MAKES MOVING LOADS A NO-BRAINER
Three models of autonomous vehicles – the K03 Twister, K50 pallet truck and K55 pallet stacker – from Kivnon (Barcelona, Spain) circulate around their environment using magnetic guidance or simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology.
FULLY AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING WITH ‘ONE SYSTEM FITS ALL’ MODULE AND COBOT-ARMED GATES
While autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) transform increase efficiency and reduce employee injuries, their benefits are only maximized with top modules and gates that transfer the materials.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTION LOWERS MATERIAL HANDLING TIME AND ERRORS
Wi-Fi instability is a common workplace challenge. In material-hendling applications with devices communicating through complicated setups passing data between autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), third-party receiving stations and conveyors, intermittent Wi-Fi can cause errors and downtime.
MOBILE COBOT AUTOMATICALLY MOVES FROM STATION TO STATION TO AUTOMATICALLY PERFORM TASKS
An autonomous mobile robot (AMR) equipped with a 6-axis TX2 cobot arm with CS9 controller and variable assembly language (VAL) 3, the HelMo from Staubli Corp. (Duncan, SC) fetches tools from a magazine and loads and unloads machine tools without human intervention.
