With the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the market demand for personalized, small-batch, and multi-variety production is getting higher and higher. This change requires the production line to be flexible enough to adapt to the production of different products, and the high cost and fixed programming of traditional industrial robots make it difficult to meet this demand. At the same time, rising labor costs and a focus on safety in the work environment are also driving companies to look for new automation solutions.
Background
Automated equipment enables efficient production, reduces human error, increases productivity, and excels in repetitive, precise tasks. Human-machine collaboration gives full play to the respective strengths of humans and machines, realizes complementarity, and improves overall efficiency and effectiveness. Industrial intelligence and automation have also become an important way to improve production efficiency, reduce costs and ensure product quality.
SMC Corporation is a multinational company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, which manufactures parts and components for industrial automation such as automobiles, semiconductors, medical care, and food, including pneumatic equipment, sensors, valves, and actuators. As a global leader in the pneumatic equipment industry, it has about 700,000 product categories.
Solution
In order to cope with the huge market demand and maintain a wide variety of products, factories need to realize flexible production of various types of small batches, which is undoubtedly a problem for large-scale special equipment, and the need to redesign when introducing special equipment will lead to longer delivery times before equipment installation, resulting in a decrease in factory productivity.
The easy-to-use, flexible, safe and efficient characteristics of TM Robot have been favored by the managers of the Production Technology Department of SMC Co., Ltd. In order to meet the flexible production of various types of small batches, the manual work carried out by personnel is introduced into Daming robots, and the production efficiency of the production line is improved through human-machine collaboration.
Solution Advantages:
TM Robot has built-in vision functions, which can greatly reduce the requirements for peripheral positioning accuracy, reduce the complexity and huge cost of fixture design. AOI vision applications such as detection, identification, and positioning can also be carried out according to customized needs, without additional vision system integration time.
In the part of the screw lock, TM Robot can accurately locate the screw lock position of the workpiece at the previous station, and can cooperate with the force sensor to ensure that each screw and component can be accurately installed during the manufacturing process. TM Landmark technology, developed by TM Robotics, with intelligent vision, can also accurately locate the position of the tray for component assembly.
In addition, TM Robotics cooperates with major robot peripheral manufacturers to launch TM Plug&Play peripheral software and hardware integration kit series products, which can be directly downloaded and used with SMC fixtures. Dramatically reduce the time and labor costs of automated hardware production and programming. Save time, plug and play, speed up the realization of automated processes and production, and improve the production efficiency of the production line!
As a pioneer of collaborative robots and intelligent vision systems at home and abroad, TM Robotics prioritizes the collaboration between humans and cobots in the manufacturing process of each cobot. Let cobots handle highly repetitive and dangerous tasks, allowing human employees to focus on more valuable work. This collaborative approach not only liberates manpower, but also improves the overall efficiency of the production line and improves the quality of manufacturing. It is hoped that with the innovative technology of TM Robotics, it can help more enterprises improve efficiency and overall output, making human-robot collaboration an ideal solution for more industries.