Palletizing robots for your company
"STALKO" is a family company, and its beginnings date back to the late 1970s. The evolution of the company from the sole proprietorship of Zdzisław Ziomek, the company's founder over 40 years ago, to an enterprise employing over 160 people today, proves its continuous development and expansion of the scope of production and technological possibilities.
Currently, the company's flagship activity is the design and production of machine and equipment components for broadly understood industry and agriculture.
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STALKO street Gdyńska 32, 26-600 RADOM |
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The employee collects material for processing from the warehouse, prepares and sets the operating parameters of the machine. The more diverse the details to be made, the longer this process takes. While the CNC machine is working, the operator manually delivers the details for processing and waits for each element to be completed.
“For every manufacturing company, the greatest impact on profitability is the execution time and the quality of the services offered. In order to optimize the operation of the machine, the foreman selects such elements that it is possible to perform a larger batch of different orders without significant changes in the settings. This is not always possible because we have a very dynamic production environment, and most importantly, many details require mechanical processing on several machines and cannot be completed before a bending or cutting machine becomes available. The result is downtime in the production of individual products.'' – explains the managing director, Paweł Tyczyński.
SOLUTION
In order to obtain the shortest possible production cycles, we have proposed 2 Easy Robots robotic stations with a dedicated Box CNC drawer magazine. Each position includes:
- ES5 6-axis articulated manipulator
- portable operator panel
- control cabinet with a control unit with ESControl software
- double pneumatic gripper
- Box CNC semi-finished product warehouse
IMPLEMENTATION DESCRIPTION
The Box CNC semi-finished product warehouse has 4 drawers with replaceable inserts for details, which are used to properly arrange the elements being processed. The drawers are covered with a casing and each holds a set, from a dozen to several dozen pieces depending on the insert design.
4 double-sided drawers
replaceable inserts for details
safe loading and receiving
The Box CNC design allows drawers to be pulled out in two directions, which allows the operator to easily and safely load parts and collect finished elements. There is no need to stop the devices and enter the robot's work zone. Each detail picked up by the manipulator is positioned and individually processed. After processing all the elements from the insert, the robot arm slides in the drawer for refilling and pushes away the next one from which it takes raw details.
We have equipped the Box CNC drawer magazine for ES5 with locking transport wheels, which allows the entire set to be freely moved and transported to various machining centers. Covers made of colorless PMM provide excellent visibility of the robot's working environment, regardless of the device it works with.
Space saving
Shorter part preparation time
RESULTS
Thanks to the automation of the CNC machine operation process using the ES5 robot, the unit times for performing individual activities were shortened. It was also possible to significantly eliminate downtime in the multi-stage production process.
ONE OPERATOR FOR SEVERAL DEVICES
Before implementation, one employee operated one machine and waited for its work to finish. Today, a foreman can operate more CNC equipment at the same time because he does not have to manually deliver parts. In the case of a robot, when the machining process is finished, the manipulator itself takes the elements from the next drawer. The operator's task is to run the program and refill the magazine drawers once every few hours.
INCREASED EFFICIENCY
The use of 2 stations with a Box CNC model magazine significantly increased efficiency. At the same time, this implementation allowed for continuity of work and minimized the risk of interruptions in production that occurred when the machine was waiting to be restarted.
BETTER PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Additionally, the implementation helped to achieve stable production of various details while carrying out short-series production, because the employee can now plan and manage the production time of individual semi-finished products with greater accuracy.
