Drawing A Line In The Sand With KUKA Robots

摘要

Once on the conveyor, the sand cores pass through the 170°C drying oven and then a cooling zone. The second KR 500, which has three different tools and the ability to palletize for transfer within the plant, picks them up. For the most common cores, the company uses an inflatable Liftboy gripper, which is lowered into an opening in the top of the individual core and expanded by means of compressed air. The robot first employs a laser beam to precisely locate the opening in the core for pickup. Other cores can be lifted with a provided I-hook, which makes it possible for the KR 500 to pick them up using an additional gripper. The third end-effector is a plate gripper that clamps the cores between its jaws.