How To Put a High-Precision Press on Your Robot and Still Minimize Your Work Station’s Footprint
There are literally thousands of assembly operations that require an electro-mechanical assembly press. Traditional methods for assembly involve intricate automated lines that would bring the part to the press, but with the advancements in robotic technology why not simplify the automation and bring the press to the part? The biggest problem we have seen in the marketplace isn’t that there isn’t a robot big enough to mount our press to, but how can we help our customers minimize the footprint of their assembly station.
My company makes presses, servo-controlled electro-mechanical assembly presses, EMAPs. We were asked by several of our customers to help them develop a method that allows them to utilize robotic technology along with Promess’ EMAP technology. We identified three major obstacles as we developed this new method, the robots’ inability to handle large reaction forces, the need for larger robots to handle the weight of larger EMAPs, and that traditional communication between Promess’ controller and robot manufactures technology was too slow.