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From welding to embossing – KUKA Roboter offers exciting insights into automated metalworking at EuroBLECH |
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| Augsburg, October 2006 – KUKA Roboter GmbH offers a tour of the world of sheet and metal working in Hall 11, Booth B 44 at this year's EuroBLECH. The international flagship trade fair serves as an ideal platform for the company to present its brand new solution for spot welding: the KUKA KR 175 spot. The newcomer will have to share the limelight with other interesting exhibits, though. For example with the arc welding cell, in which the KUKA RoboTeam can work together with people, thanks to KUKA Safe Technology. KUKA Roboter also proves to be a good team player when it comes to bending. Together with its partners CH.Stein AG and Spiegel AG, KUKA has designed a cell in which a KR 16 can be seen simulating a bending process at a GASPARINI press brake.
In the field of spot welding, KUKA Roboter can look back on a wealth of experience. For years, the company has been developing new solutions to help users weld spot by spot in optimal quality. Always in touch with the demands of the market, KUKA has now developed a robot that has been optimized for spot welding solutions, while also offering an excellent price/performance ratio.
KUKA 175 spot
Unlike a standard KUKA robot, the KR 175 spot has been designed specifically for point-to-point motions. For this purpose, the complete drive train has been revised and specially optimized for spot welding tasks. The optionally available process controller complements the KR 175 spot to make it a powerful spot welding solution. As the KUKA expert in this field, it is set to become the centerpiece of many a spot welding application. |
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The KUKA Posiflex rotating turnover positioner brings almost every part into the right position thanks to its modular construction. Small batch sizes and a large variety of components call for flexibility and modularity, not only in the KUKA robot, which can process the most diverse shapes and sizes, but also with regard to the positioning table. KUKA has understood this demand of the market, and at the EuroBLECH trade fair it is demonstrating a flexible rotating turnover positioner with a modular design, which can be adapted to suit the component to be processed. For the user, this modular system with a high proportion of identical parts means flexibility and above all cost savings. Alongside the classic single-axis, two-axis and three-axis variants, special models with special kinematics are also possible, and even higher payloads pose no problem for KUKA Posiflex.
KUKA Roboter will be presenting itself with its partner network
KUKA Roboter attaches great value to good cooperation with competent partners. This is because a partner-driven approach translates into a customer-driven approach, through the implementation of innovative ideas. How this works is demonstrated by KUKA, together with Spiegel AG and Ch. Stein AG, by means of a cell in which a KUKA robot on a GASPARINI press brake simulates how bending processes can be cost-effectively and flexibly automated. | |
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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 324 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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