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KUKA presents new, flexible solutions for the plastics sector at Fakuma |
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Augsburg, September 2006 – At Fakuma 2006 in Friedrichshafen, KUKA Roboter GmbH is presenting flexible solutions for the plastics industry at Booth 7211 in Hall B1. Smaller batch sizes and changing processes can be mastered cost-effectively with the innovative products from KUKA.
The KUKA JET, a robot combining the advantages of jointed-arm and linear technology, is ideally suited to the longitudinal unloading of workpieces from injection molding machines. It communicates with a fellow robot fitted with a vision system. The operator control of complex solutions such as this is made easy with the KUKA Smart G.U.I. Plastic graphical user interface. |
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Following on from its successful début at AUTOMATICA 2006, the KUKA JET is now on a plastics tour at Fakuma. Here it is demonstrating the advantages it can bring to this industry. As a hub technology, it has enabled advanced automation in a wide range of different market sectors. In the field of plastics, its convincing attributes are its high speed, flexibility and low space requirement. It allows highly complex unloading operations and completely new, space-saving machine shop concepts, even for bulky workpieces. It provides the ideal solution for handling tasks in the fields of injection molding, die-casting and all other applications involving longer travel distances and requiring the flexibility of jointed-arm technology.
The new 6-axis / linear combination is KUKA Roboter’s logical answer to industry requests for new concepts in machine automation. New plastics machines and die technologies call for both the speed of a linear axis and the flexibility of a jointed-arm robot. These market requirements are met in the KUKA JET. It quickly covers long distances from the unloading station to the setdown point.
Thanks to its great agility, the tending of machines through narrow openings and the accurate positioning of workpieces within machines are also possible. KUKA JET is available in four configuration variants with different reaches and working ranges. Its payload capacity extends from 30 to 60 kilograms.
At KUKA Roboter GmbH’s booth at the fair, an unloading process at an injection molding machine is being simulated. The KUKA JET communicates with a floor-mounted robot fitted with a high-tech vision system that can measure the workpiece as soon as it is unloaded. This, then, is KUKA Roboter GmbH’s response to the latest requirements in the plastics industry. Vision systems are open and not article-specific, which means that they are reusable.
At KUKA Roboter GmbH, highly complex solutions have always been easy to operate. It is thus not surprising that the company is offering its customers in the plastics industry a user-friendly user interface: KUKA Smart G.U.I. Plastic.
This user interface, tested in industrial practice, is precisely tailored to the requirements of the plastics market and enables uncomplicated handling of complex robot control solutions. | |
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| About the KUKA Robot Group
KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, is a member of the IWKA Aktiengesellschaft Group (Karlsruhe) and ranks among the world’s leading suppliers of industrial robots. Core competencies are the development, production and sale of industrial robots, controllers, software and linear units. The company is the market leader in Germany and Europe, and the number three in the world. The KUKA Robot Group employs about 2,000 people worldwide. Of these, 1,200 are employed in Germany, either at the KUKA Robot Group headquarters in Augsburg, or at various subsidiaries. In 2005, sales totaled 340 million euro. Over 20 subsidiaries provide a presence in the rest of Europe, the US and Asia. | |
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Any questions? We would be happy to help |
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KUKA Robot Group
Head of Communications
Jürgen Schulze-Ferebee
Tel.: +49 821 4533–3318
presse@kuka.com
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