ABB software program will increase industrial robotic pace 70%

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ABB Robotics has launched its Excessive Pace Alignment software program that allows customers to extend the pace of 6-axis robots by 70% and accuracy by 50%, lowering time-to-market whereas growing accuracy ranges. The software program is suitable with ABB’s IRB 1100 and IRB 120 industrial robots.

The PC-based software program contains Visible Servoing know-how utilizing a number of cameras, mixed with a pc imaginative and prescient system, to manage the place of the robotic relative to the workpiece. Because the robotic is shifting, the cameras constantly seize picture info that the pc imaginative and prescient system processes to cross verify and alter the robotic actions to ship 0.01 to 0.02 millimeter precision.

“Gross sales of smartphones, wearables and different high-tech gadgets are rising and advances in electronics are gathering tempo,” mentioned Liang Rui, managing director, ABB’s Robotics Electronics enterprise line. “As gadgets turn into smaller and extra highly effective, new automation options are required to shortly and precisely place elements, guaranteeing that manufacturing can hold tempo with demand whereas sustaining the best ranges of product high quality.”

ABB’s articulated 6-axis robots are extremely versatile for dealing with complicated duties in tight areas and might carry out quite a lot of meticulous placement duties. The Excessive Pace Alignment software program was developed to discover a steadiness between pace and accuracy.

Together with commissioning and tuning, system integrators and producers can profit from a discount in deployment time – down from a whole shift of eight to only one hour. Minimal programming expertise is required, because the software program has an intuitive consumer interface. Moreover, the software program is suitable with a variety of cameras, and IRC5 and OmniCore robotic controllers, permitting system integrators to adapt current installations.

“Our newest innovation to the RobotWare household, the Excessive Pace Alignment software program allows digital producers to extend productiveness by 70% whereas sustaining 0.01-0.02 mm accuracy ranges,” mentioned Rui. “It is a breakthrough know-how for the electronics meeting market.”