Folks, I really appreciate the replies I've gotten here. You've helped me gain a much better picture of what will be involved. Our forecasts and budget analysis leads me to believe that we could seriously use this robot within the next year, based on what it will take to put into place.
To state what we will want this robot to do: Grip a part from a magazine (Think 35mm slide carousel) load into fixture, get out of the way (Machine tool runs) pick part from fixture index part 180 degrees (wrist rotate) put part back into fixture, get out of the way (Machine tool runs) pick part from fixture reload into magazine perform move that manually indexes magazine repeat The environment is moist but do not anticipate that this unit would get wet. We would have it within the machine cabinet. We are thinking that we need a small industrial robot (Mitsubishi, Fanuc) with .002" or so accuracy. The fixture will do some self-aligning of the part as it is clamped. Does anyone have any recommendations and sources for a suitable robot? Thanks again! Andy ------------------------------ Andy Evans Evans Precision Tooling Incorporated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
