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A special material supplier to the Aerospace Industry had to transfer heavy duty frames loaded with aluminium sheets having a total weight of 1,000kgs between four process tanks. The first tank was filled with a liquid salt solution heated to 650°C, the second tank was a quench tank to bring the temperature of the material down quickly. The third tank is a rinse tank and the fourth tank was a drier. The overall process cycle time was quite long at 10 minutes, but it was Read more ...

British Nuclear Group are involved in the current de-commissioning programme throughout Britain, for the early Magnox Nuclear Power Stations.
The challenges faced by BNG are many and varied and they need to deploy automated systems into areas where human activity for extended periods would not be desired.
A particular application of emptying old storage areas of waste material required some form of overhead handling system that could deploy a standard Manipulator Read more ...

Develop and provide the Project Partner with a cost effective, Flexible Lightweight Accurate Platform (F.L.A.P.) for the drilling of Aerospace components on new Commercial Aircraft.

Major tier 1 Japanese stamping company located in Mansfield, Ohio, USA, was awarded a contract to provide door sash stampings for an automobile manufacturer located in Marysville, Ohio, USA. The Tier-one manufacturer was looking to reduce the manual handling of finished parts and part racks.

Packages of pills delivered on a conveyer belt must be picked up and placed in cardboard boxes. The packed boxes are then placed on a palette in a staggered arrangement.

Glass sheets weighing 600 kg are stacked and stored on a so-called carousel.
Technical data:
C-axis travel: 360° / acceleration m/s²: 1.0 / speed m/s: 0.8
Y-axis travel: 2,100 / acceleration: 1.0 / speed: 1.25
Z-axis travel: 700 / acceleration: 1.0 / speed: 1.25

In a Russian end customer’s factory, unfinished train wheels must be removed from the stack and deposited in one of the four vertical lathes in the lathe cell. There are 2 cells with 4 vertical lathes each. A low shop crane limits the height of the portal. Moreover, the wheels are stacked six high and held in place by means of a centering mandrel in the middle. Because of the centering mandrel, the gripper must be arranged at an angle in order to be able to reach the bottom Read more ...

In the factory of a Russian end customer, unfinished train wheels must be removed from the stack and deposited in one of the four vertical lathes in the lathe cell. There are 2 cells with 4 vertical lathes each. A low shop crane limits the height of the portal. Moreover, the wheels are stacked six high and held in place by means of a centering mandrel in the middle. Because of the centering mandrel, the gripper must be arranged at an angle in order to be able to reach the Read more ...

Fully automatic charging aid for multi-deck ovens for entirely automated baking. Charging system harmonizes perfectly with the devices for dough handling and unloading.