Okay so here's the situation. I program cncs as well as a cobot to load the mill as needed. How we currently have it setup is a table that we stack parts on as needed and the robot uses a pattern to pick the parts up. The problem with that is for the current job, I will spend almost 8 hours wiping, and stacking parts on this table. The wiping of the parts is so they don't stick together when being picked. It's roughly 8 days of run time so it's justified time but I'm looking to improve.
SO! My thoughts are a cold saw that will feed a small conveyor to the robot. I've already got the conveyor proven to work with some IOs from the robot, so I've been getting quotes from a few different saw manufacturer's. What I need is a saw to be able to receive a signal from the robot saying to cut one more piece, and not the entire stock. The people I have talked to say the only way to do that is to wipe their software and control via PLC which seems excessive to me. Does anyone know of a saw that is able to cut via a command and not cut the entire stock at once? Thanks for any info and if there are any questions I'll answer as needed.
SO! My thoughts are a cold saw that will feed a small conveyor to the robot. I've already got the conveyor proven to work with some IOs from the robot, so I've been getting quotes from a few different saw manufacturer's. What I need is a saw to be able to receive a signal from the robot saying to cut one more piece, and not the entire stock. The people I have talked to say the only way to do that is to wipe their software and control via PLC which seems excessive to me. Does anyone know of a saw that is able to cut via a command and not cut the entire stock at once? Thanks for any info and if there are any questions I'll answer as needed.