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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Packaging : Robotics from Cermex
Cermex here demonstrates the use of robotics in packaging.
In continuation of its range of "Ready to Pack" modules and machines, Cermex has just developed a new version of wrap around case packer for one of its customers, a French SME in the food industry. It is able to load cartons or flowpacked aluminium trays of frozen food either horizontally or on edge ... for optimal industrial flexibility and merchandising!
Over and above the integration of two robots in a same wrap around case packer, this new application demonstrates the importance of Cermex's policy of designing by functional and industrial sub-assemblies adopted more than 3 years ago. All new Cermex machines are developed or redeveloped based on this pragmatic approach which consists in optimising the expertise of each team of technicians in the Design Offices (120 employees out of a total staff of 500), before combining the elements into a unique machine for the customer.
This approach combines the best of empirical and human knowledge (such as expertise in cardboard handling) with the best of current technology (such as the development of robotics).
After being spaced out at the case packer infeed, the frozen products in cartons or flowpacked aluminium trays are stacked directly in the tooling of one of the two robots. The tooling is in fact a mechanical gripper which descends step by step on each product in order to build up the programmed number of cartons or trays.
In order to meet the speed, two identical robots are installed on each side of the product infeed conveyor, so that the second robot can take over from the first one when the latter is loading its stack of products into the case.
The principal advantage of this solution, with two robots integrating the product collating system, consists in making the most of the mechanical potential of the robot. Instead of reaching up to 50 cycles/min with each robot loading single products in order to keep up with the nominal product infeed speed, Cermex divides this speed by 5 or even 10 by handling a complete batch for each cycle.
The effects of inertia related to speed and acceleration are much easier to control at low speed than at high speed. Accuracy in gripping and loading the products is also more reliable at this level of speed, a significant point for applications with this type of primary packaging (flowpacks in particular).
Controlled product manipulation is also guaranteed during loading by keeping the batch of cartons on edge using the suction cups on the gripping head (grippers retracted) until the case flaps are folded, thus preventing products from falling.
At the same time as products are collated and loaded, the Cermex WB case packer extracts and erects the cardboard blank (trays with upper ledges in this instance) which encases the products as per Cermex standards in terms of automation of corrugated cardboard packaging.
There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
Visit: http://www.cermex.fr
In continuation of its range of "Ready to Pack" modules and machines, Cermex has just developed a new version of wrap around case packer for one of its customers, a French SME in the food industry. It is able to load cartons or flowpacked aluminium trays of frozen food either horizontally or on edge ... for optimal industrial flexibility and merchandising!
Over and above the integration of two robots in a same wrap around case packer, this new application demonstrates the importance of Cermex's policy of designing by functional and industrial sub-assemblies adopted more than 3 years ago. All new Cermex machines are developed or redeveloped based on this pragmatic approach which consists in optimising the expertise of each team of technicians in the Design Offices (120 employees out of a total staff of 500), before combining the elements into a unique machine for the customer.
This approach combines the best of empirical and human knowledge (such as expertise in cardboard handling) with the best of current technology (such as the development of robotics).
After being spaced out at the case packer infeed, the frozen products in cartons or flowpacked aluminium trays are stacked directly in the tooling of one of the two robots. The tooling is in fact a mechanical gripper which descends step by step on each product in order to build up the programmed number of cartons or trays.
In order to meet the speed, two identical robots are installed on each side of the product infeed conveyor, so that the second robot can take over from the first one when the latter is loading its stack of products into the case.
The principal advantage of this solution, with two robots integrating the product collating system, consists in making the most of the mechanical potential of the robot. Instead of reaching up to 50 cycles/min with each robot loading single products in order to keep up with the nominal product infeed speed, Cermex divides this speed by 5 or even 10 by handling a complete batch for each cycle.
The effects of inertia related to speed and acceleration are much easier to control at low speed than at high speed. Accuracy in gripping and loading the products is also more reliable at this level of speed, a significant point for applications with this type of primary packaging (flowpacks in particular).
Controlled product manipulation is also guaranteed during loading by keeping the batch of cartons on edge using the suction cups on the gripping head (grippers retracted) until the case flaps are folded, thus preventing products from falling.
At the same time as products are collated and loaded, the Cermex WB case packer extracts and erects the cardboard blank (trays with upper ledges in this instance) which encases the products as per Cermex standards in terms of automation of corrugated cardboard packaging.
There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
Visit: http://www.cermex.fr
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Virginia Tech Students Build Full-Sized Autonomous Robot with Help from NI Products
Engineering students at Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanics Laboratory (RoMeLa) recently unveiled the first complete, untethered, autonomous walking humanoid robot built in the United States. The students used NI LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO to create the robot.
The Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Artificial Intelligence, better known as CHARLI, was conceived by RoMeLa associate professor and director, Dr. Dennis Hong. The robot was built with only $20,000 in funds and donated equipment from NI and Maxon Precision Motors.
CHARLI’s structure is anatomically based, deploying a system of pulleys, strings, carbon fiber rods and actuators, instead of using traditional rotating joints. Standing at five feet tall, the robot can climb stairs and tread uneven ground, which is more than most robots can handle.
There are two CHARLIs – CHARLI L, as in lightweight, and CHARLI H, as in heavyweight. CHARLI H is still being developed with the hopes that it will one day be able to run, jump, and do just about anything a person can do.
Watch the video to see the robot in action and hear the students talk about CHARLI.
The Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Artificial Intelligence, better known as CHARLI, was conceived by RoMeLa associate professor and director, Dr. Dennis Hong. The robot was built with only $20,000 in funds and donated equipment from NI and Maxon Precision Motors.
CHARLI’s structure is anatomically based, deploying a system of pulleys, strings, carbon fiber rods and actuators, instead of using traditional rotating joints. Standing at five feet tall, the robot can climb stairs and tread uneven ground, which is more than most robots can handle.
There are two CHARLIs – CHARLI L, as in lightweight, and CHARLI H, as in heavyweight. CHARLI H is still being developed with the hopes that it will one day be able to run, jump, and do just about anything a person can do.
Watch the video to see the robot in action and hear the students talk about CHARLI.
Robotizing, Unified Control and Clouds Ahead for Robots
Image via WikipediaAnother trend he sees, unified control, could be part of such change. In this control infrastructure, especially in emerging markets that haven’t existed long enough to assume separate controls is correct, “you make a decision about who’s responsible for everything,” Nieves explains. “Can I program not just the robot with the robot controller but all the peripherals?” If so, there won’t be a programmable logic controller (PLC) involved, he continues. This control unification for robots hasn’t yet hit the factory floor, he says, but it’s coming.
What Nieves considers the real “sea change” is dual-armed robots. These perform tasks with the dexterity previously possible only with humans, he comments. The big leap was not from a single-arm to a dual-arm robot, though, he asserts. “That was natural. The leap was from six to seven axes. Once you have a seven-axis arm and you have all this dexterity, then it is very organic to apply two seven-axis arms to a common torso.” And that, Nieves states, was how the dual-arm robot was born.
The seven-axis arm allows movement without affecting position and orientation, he adds. And such dual-arm robots provide gains in productivity. But these robots, which are in their infancy, will never be dominant, Nieves predicts. “You will always have tasks that six-axis robots are suitable for, such as tried-and-true applications such as spot welding.”
Besides more mechanical functionality, robotics’ growth also focuses more on interconnectivity and traceability, suggests Rush LaSelle, global sales and marketing director for vendor Adept Technology Inc. (www.adept.com), Pleasanton, Calif. One pathway is through information-technology clouds. This technology implies that the computing resources exist somewhere else, “out there,” and, as necessary, that users will connect. “The benefit of processing and its interrelationship with the cloud is in its relative infancy throughout manufacturing and, certainly, within the context of robotics.” But, says LaSelle, “ ‘cloud’ or resource sharing has been used in the automation industry for as long as there have been networks.”
Cloud coverage
Another real-world cloud example he provides is inventory control, in which robots palletize and handle products in warehouses and distribution centers. “Inventory information is largely managed in the cloud and the addition of intelligent robotic automation acts as a vehicle to reconcile what’s ‘expected’ in the digital world—that is, what is captured in databases throughout planning and finance—and what actually ‘exists’ in the physical world—that is, pallets of products in warehouse racks,” LaSelle explains.
Besides clouds, end-users will benefit from being freed of having to program robots. “Our team is evaluating technologies and developing methodologies so that users will be able to teach, not program, robots,” LaSelle states. Options he mentions include gesture-based teaching and other human-machine interfaces beyond the traditional interface on a teach pendant, programmable logic controller or personal computer.
Sensory inputs comprise another growth area of value-add focus. “Portion control and product grading for the handling of primary foods, especially those in the protein category (e.g. meat, fish and poultry), are active areas of development,” LaSelle notes. What could the net benefit be? Robots will not only locate, pick and place products into packaging, he says, but will determine size of the products. That’s so the robot can place the correct weight of products into a package and conduct real-time quality control.
C. Kenna Amos is an Automation World Contributing Editor.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Robotics and Automation Revolutionising the Workplace
In this modern-day corporate world where staff is expected to perform multiple roles with more speed, precision and agility, will robotics supersede employee strength and stage a mutiny?
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (from the movie by the same name), a garbagecollecting robot discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. They experience love at first sight. They possess an instant chemistry of belonging to each other.True to his love, Wall-E also protects Eve from wind, rain, and lightening.
Background
Tracing its origin way back to 1495 when Leonard Da Vinci designed The Mechanical Knight, the first human-like mechanical device, robots have evolved into humanoids with artificial intelligence, which can mimic human expressions. On the industrial front, UNIMATE, the first digitally operated and programmable robot installed in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them, has since evolved into mechanical marvels which can execute the most complex manoeuvres with more speed, precision and agility.
In 1953, Grey Walter used a tortoise in his cybernetics research. In the 1960s, the work started to replace the lost human limbs, the development of which significantly contributed to the development of the robots. In 1969, a more sophisticated mobile robot, Shakey, was built at Stanford Research Institute. Shakey was set to solve simple tasks like recognising an object using vision, then find the way to the object and perform some action on the object.
All this has been made possible, thanks to robotics.
The past
From the early to mid 80s, the robot industry grew very fast primarily due to large investments by the automotive industry. With the boom in the auto and manufacturing sector, robotics is gearing up for sharp growth. At Tata Motors, the employee strength has come down by 20 per cent, while the company’s turnover has increased 2 1/2 times. Its Pune plant alone has invested in 100 robots and the automaker is adding more.
Going forward, there is immense potential for robotics deployment in the auto sector. Robotics can play a critical role in automobile manufacturing as automation can positively impact the cycle time of producing a vehicle. The major advantages of using robots are productivity improvement, improved flexibility and scalability, ergonomics, quality improvement and cost reduction in the long run.
While in some applications, a simple Uniaxis transfer of component would suffice, there are yet another whole range of applications which require the precision and agility of Multiaxis robots.
At Maruti, a large number of in-house automations have also been developed including automatic spot welding automations in weld shops, transfer and loading/unloading of components in machine shops, and lot of other automations across the plant.
DiFacto Robotics and Automation, a technology company offering outsourced engineering services in the areas of Robot simulation and offline programming, on-site robot commissioning and programming, technical consultancy and design services and robot training, “Robots are used in a wide range of industrial applications such as material handling, spray painting, sealing, grinding, polishing, inspection etc.”
While the automotive sector is the biggest user of robots, other sectors that prominently employ them are the food and beverage industry, packaging industry, textile, plastics, pharmaceutical/biomedical, printing, machine, electronics, etc.
Some of the other areas where robots are used include research and development laboratories for handling of certain materials which may not be handled by humans, either due to precision and care required in handling or due to harmful nature of the same. Robots are also used in surveillance and reconnaissance in military, space exploration as well as the entertainment and hospitality industry.
The future
With the growing demand of automation and dependency on robots to perform multiple tasks, are there chances of employee strength going down?
It is absurd to say that robots can supersede employee strength. On the contrary, robotics will create a plethora of employment within the auto industry. One should not forget that robots don’t run by themselves, they need humans to instruct them to carry out the tasks. At the onset, it may seem that robots can cause unemployment by replacing human workers, but they in turn also create jobs such as robot technicians, salesmen, engineers, programmers and supervisors etc.
Needless to say, with the current trends in the automotive industry, robotics will have a very significant role to play. Robots have revolutionised the industrial workplace. Thousands of manufacturers rely on the productivity, high-performance and savings provided by modern-day industrial automation. Robotic automation has dramatically altered factories throughout the globe.
Humans may not be as developed as the robots, but that's because they exist more to represent the whole of humanity rather than particular individuals. Wall-E and Eve are a testament to the level of genius, but are humans ready to add some intellectual gravity for the world to chew on.
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (from the movie by the same name), a garbagecollecting robot discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. They experience love at first sight. They possess an instant chemistry of belonging to each other.True to his love, Wall-E also protects Eve from wind, rain, and lightening.
Background
Tracing its origin way back to 1495 when Leonard Da Vinci designed The Mechanical Knight, the first human-like mechanical device, robots have evolved into humanoids with artificial intelligence, which can mimic human expressions. On the industrial front, UNIMATE, the first digitally operated and programmable robot installed in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them, has since evolved into mechanical marvels which can execute the most complex manoeuvres with more speed, precision and agility.
All this has been made possible, thanks to robotics.
The past
From the early to mid 80s, the robot industry grew very fast primarily due to large investments by the automotive industry. With the boom in the auto and manufacturing sector, robotics is gearing up for sharp growth. At Tata Motors, the employee strength has come down by 20 per cent, while the company’s turnover has increased 2 1/2 times. Its Pune plant alone has invested in 100 robots and the automaker is adding more.
Going forward, there is immense potential for robotics deployment in the auto sector. Robotics can play a critical role in automobile manufacturing as automation can positively impact the cycle time of producing a vehicle. The major advantages of using robots are productivity improvement, improved flexibility and scalability, ergonomics, quality improvement and cost reduction in the long run.
While in some applications, a simple Uniaxis transfer of component would suffice, there are yet another whole range of applications which require the precision and agility of Multiaxis robots.
At Maruti, a large number of in-house automations have also been developed including automatic spot welding automations in weld shops, transfer and loading/unloading of components in machine shops, and lot of other automations across the plant.
DiFacto Robotics and Automation, a technology company offering outsourced engineering services in the areas of Robot simulation and offline programming, on-site robot commissioning and programming, technical consultancy and design services and robot training, “Robots are used in a wide range of industrial applications such as material handling, spray painting, sealing, grinding, polishing, inspection etc.”
While the automotive sector is the biggest user of robots, other sectors that prominently employ them are the food and beverage industry, packaging industry, textile, plastics, pharmaceutical/biomedical, printing, machine, electronics, etc.
Some of the other areas where robots are used include research and development laboratories for handling of certain materials which may not be handled by humans, either due to precision and care required in handling or due to harmful nature of the same. Robots are also used in surveillance and reconnaissance in military, space exploration as well as the entertainment and hospitality industry.
The future
With the growing demand of automation and dependency on robots to perform multiple tasks, are there chances of employee strength going down?
It is absurd to say that robots can supersede employee strength. On the contrary, robotics will create a plethora of employment within the auto industry. One should not forget that robots don’t run by themselves, they need humans to instruct them to carry out the tasks. At the onset, it may seem that robots can cause unemployment by replacing human workers, but they in turn also create jobs such as robot technicians, salesmen, engineers, programmers and supervisors etc.
Needless to say, with the current trends in the automotive industry, robotics will have a very significant role to play. Robots have revolutionised the industrial workplace. Thousands of manufacturers rely on the productivity, high-performance and savings provided by modern-day industrial automation. Robotic automation has dramatically altered factories throughout the globe.
Humans may not be as developed as the robots, but that's because they exist more to represent the whole of humanity rather than particular individuals. Wall-E and Eve are a testament to the level of genius, but are humans ready to add some intellectual gravity for the world to chew on.
