nitrousmudbogger
Aluminum
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2013
- Location
- Belgrade, MT
Have you bought one and started automating loading and unloading machines more specifically horizontal and vertical mills
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We purchased a UR10 several months back, but have been so friggin busy getting product out the door that we have not had time to do much but play with it. Pretty solid unit. When we do make time, it will be used for machine loading/unloading.
Thats my problem, trying just to go look at one this week. They seem slow but consistent.
I think they could be pretty useful. just gotta use your imagination and you can pretty much do anything with it.
no I havent taken the class, but been all over there website and hit youtube vids. the ones I seen of theres seemed slow on the parts changing part.They are not as slow as some of their cheaper competitors.
Have you been on their website and taken the class? If not, I highly recommend it. You can also contact them and they will send out a rep to demo it for you in your shop. They have a new model out now, cant recall the nomenclature, but look into the new model rather than the older UR models.
the packaging looks fast but the part loading vids looked slow, until I see it in person I wont know.There is a video of some doing packaging where they are moving pretty damn fast.
Gobo, what are you doing for end effectors?
From what others here have said you can take advantage of the load sensors to have the robot push the part against the fixed stops. Perhaps no need for "compensation" with spring loaded anything.
If they can move fast at packaging then they can move just as fast at part loading. Many of the part loading videos have the robot opening and closing doors and pushing the green button, obviously not concerned with cycle time.
I installed a UR5 on a VF2 for a customer. It was the new e-series and the force feature worked great for pushing parts into a stop just like an operator would. They are a little slower (than the Epson I have in front of my mill) but that's generally because they're ran at reduced settings for operator safety. The big advantage I see is ease of setup for short run jobs and no safety cage. If you can run unmanned all night, speed isn't as great of a concern. Here's a link to a clip of it- I still need to optimize a lot on flip times, etc. but it shows basic idea: YouTube
Have any of you intergrated any of these with a Fanuc control. It seems that all i see are Haas controls. Is it possible to do without a mega buck installation? Thanks
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