In the face of global competition, manufacturers are transforming their factories and building production systems, using robotics technology to help improve production capacity and reduce single manual operations, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the same industry. The biggest characteristics of industrial production in industries such as automobiles, electronics, and food are high output, fast production pace, and high product consistency. Consumers' increasing demand for car quality is an important reason for the widespread application of robots. Compared to manual manufacturing, using robots for automated mass production has many benefits. Below is a detailed introduction to cases that are widely used by users in the industry.
1.EPSONThe Application of Robots in Precision Assembly
When contacting relevant personnel of a mobile phone OEM company, I learned that the mobile phone OEM industry has always faced many difficulties caused by the tedious assembly of mobile phones. As is well known in the industry, mobile phone components have irregular shapes, small volumes, and high precision requirements for assembly. In addition, external factors such as complex installation processes, turnover of assembly personnel, and shortage of employees determine the final product quality and profit margin. This series of problems has led to the mobile phone OEM industry having to invest more energy in gathering personnel. In order to promote the use of robots in the market and solve the problems faced by production enterprises. Shanghai Botrong personnel have specially organized a professional and powerful technical team, covering areas such as machine vision solutions and robot application research and development. After continuous communication with customers and months of planning and design research and development, a complete set of automatic assembly designs has been developed for mobile phone assembly and engine component assembly. In the entire solution, EPSON six axis robotic arm and DALSA intelligent industrial camera are used. By utilizing the precise repetitive positioning accuracy of the six axis arm, the shortest cycle time, space occupancy, and accurate positioning of the intelligent camera, it can be perfectly integrated together. Successfully solved the problem of low assembly efficiency caused by fatigue, missing values, and poor placement in manual operations. Combined with intelligent vision, it achieves precise visual positioning and inspection of missing parts, effectively overcoming the uncertainty of track feeding positions and possible positional deviations during transportation, and successfully equipping the robot with intelligent eyes.
2.EPSONThe application of robots in high-speed transportation
During a visit to a food producer, it was learned that the market for food production has also undergone changes. Faced with the vast demand market for fast-moving consumer goods today, factories are increasingly demanding higher production efficiency and accelerating production pace, with stricter requirements for employee operations. If we cannot innovate and continue to use traditional manual packaging, it will only lead to a vicious cycle of decreasing production efficiency.
After carefully inspecting the on-site production mode proposed by the customer, our personnel recorded in detail the suggestions for selecting defective products, sorting products of different shapes, and automatically placing incoming materials on the assembly line. The final plan has been discussed and determined to use the cost-effective LS3 four axis series (with a load of 2kg and a horizontal distance of 300mm, with a round-trip time of 0.45s) robotic arm to replace operators in food sorting, packaging, handling and other production processes, and to use intelligent cameras to inspect product quality. From the first day of the entire equipment deployment, it has already demonstrated extremely efficient production capacity. Thoroughly solve the timeliness and fatigue of manual production, and also enable high-quality batch production, greatly meeting the growing production and consumption demands. In similar processing enterprises, EPSON robotic arms have provided perfect interpretations when faced with a large number of customers' demands. The high-speed handling of light and small materials is even more challenging. Long term stable work, realizing the production mode of employees changing shifts without stopping equipment, fundamentally improving production capacity, and bringing maximum benefits to the enterprise.
3.EPSONRobots operate flexibly in narrow spaces
In a real grinding tool processing factory, it cannot be denied that every inch of space within the factory is a space created by money, and the most reasonable use of space is also to save costs. In order to maximize the utilization of factory space, the placement of equipment in the factory is relatively compact, using fewer personnel to handle more equipment. A common practice is to minimize the size of the device as much as possible. As a result, many customers have implemented strict control over the external dimensions of suppliers' equipment, striving to minimize the size of the equipment as much as possible. Faced with the challenge of space, each arm design of EPSON adopts a slender linear body design, combined with unique "agile intelligent control technology" to make it more flexible and versatile. Taking the EPSON six axis series arm as an example, it has expanded from the initial automotive manufacturing industry to include mechanical manufacturing, electronics, food and beverage, daily chemical, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals in the industrial application field. Typical operational application cases include parts assembly, handling, welding, inspection, gluing, picking up, and stacking, etc., which also provide effective reference for users to varying degrees.
