BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte (Munich, Germany) has long used flexible automation to manufacture dishwashers. It was therefore only natural that the company chose to employ a battery of robots to install bitumen sound-deadening pads in its dishwasher housings, especially since the pads must be seated accurately to ensure maximum sound-proofing and a clean fit when the housings are attached to the washer chassis.
BSH uses a machine vision system and four KR 125 robots from Kuka Robotics (Clinton Township, MI) working in pairs in two separate cells. During the early stages of cell design, the company also used Kuka's KR simulation software to perform cycle time analyses and collision detection, and ensure that the robots were not being asked to function beyond their rated work envelopes.