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Simulation brings<br />
automation gains<br />
When an Eastern<br />
European dairy<br />
manufacturer wanted<br />
to optimise the performance<br />
of its plant through an<br />
automation project, it<br />
contacted a Russian-based<br />
IT consultant and reseller<br />
of technology from Visual<br />
Components.<br />
The project involved<br />
working on two robot cells at<br />
Savushkin’s plant. In cell one,<br />
the dairy product producer<br />
needed help with generating<br />
the robot program for a<br />
recently installed Kawasaki<br />
robot in a palletising cell<br />
handling boxes of yoghurt<br />
pots, while in the second<br />
cell, the company wanted to<br />
automate a process for mixing<br />
and packaging single-serve<br />
yoghurts for the first time.<br />
With the use of the 3D<br />
manufacturing simulation<br />
package form Visual<br />
Components, Savushkin<br />
programmed the robot cell<br />
which is now operating at full<br />
capacity. The IT consultant,<br />
called Concern R-Pro, also<br />
trained staff on the use of this<br />
Yoghurt is now mixed in just seconds<br />
software package to perform<br />
offline programming, so<br />
they can now handle any<br />
future projects internally.<br />
Meanwhile, the yoghurt<br />
mixing and packaging process<br />
in cell two was transformed<br />
from a totally manual process,<br />
to a fully automated system.<br />
The cell consists of incoming<br />
and outgoing conveyors along<br />
with a robot equipped with<br />
a special gripper.<br />
“We helped the customer to<br />
reduce the cycle time of this<br />
process from two minutes,<br />
to two seconds,” says coo at<br />
Concern R-Pro Victoria Litun.<br />
T 00 358 9 252 40800<br />
W www.visualcomponents.com<br />
SCARA robots are ordered<br />
for tricky assembly process<br />
TM Robotics<br />
has won a large<br />
contract to supply<br />
a substantial<br />
number of<br />
THE600 SCARA<br />
robots (along with<br />
accompanying<br />
TS5000 controllers)<br />
to work in a<br />
complex process<br />
of robot placement<br />
of parts onto an<br />
electronic board to<br />
a global electronics assembly<br />
plant in Mexico.<br />
A better price and spec<br />
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W www.tmrobotics.co.uk
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