To help tackle the broad scope of challenges faced by today’s metal fabricators, Kawasaki Robotics offers a wide range of robotic solutions for any type of user.
As labor shortages linger, automation continues to grow in popularity among metal fabricators. Robotic welding and finishing solutions not only provide high-quality results time after time, but they also give manufacturers the reliability and consistency they need to meet customer demand. Kawasaki Robotics will be at FABTECH 2022 booth C11337 to demonstrate automation that takes users to the next level.
Eliminate Laborious Bin Picking Tasks: Bin picking processes are known to be laborious, tiring, and even dangerous in some situations. These tasks are suited for automation in nature but can be challenging to automate due to factors such as shifting part locations and complex path calculations. Kawasaki has developed a bin picking solution that can save users both time and money. This solution will be featured at FABTECH November 8-10, using Canon’s leading optical processing technology and Kawasaki’s new RS013N robot for picking and sorting random parts from a bin to a conveyor.
Automating Monotonous Machine Tending Tasks: Kawasaki partner Melton Machine & Control Company brings more than 50 years of automation system build experience to their machine tending solutions. Built to impress, Melton is launching their new RapidFlex machine tending cell to help end-users increase process uptime and quality, reduce operation cost and maximize throughput.
Flawless Finishes Made Easy: Kawasaki Robotics and Dürr Systems are teaming up to bring innovative, user-friendly automated paint solutions to the non-automotive general industries (GI) market. Experience Kawasaki’s KJ155 explosion-proof paint robot, equipped with a Dürr applicator, in a live paint simulation. Dürr and Kawasaki’s intensive paint experience and finishing expertise are reflected in this seamlessly integrated paint application.
Pre-Engineered, Ready-to-Weld Cell: Pre-engineered cells lower the barrier to entry for automation, making it more accessible for those less familiar with automation or robotic welding, or those simply looking for a plug-and-play solution they can get up and running quickly. Kawasaki’s established welding partner, SUMIG designed an arc welding cell for small to medium workpieces.
Reduce Programming Time by 70 percent: Kawasaki and Real Time Robotics (RTR) have partnered to display an interactive spot-welding application using two Kawasaki BX100N robots, top-of-the-line ARO 3G spot welding guns, and RTR’s innovative RapidPlan software. The spot-welding demo displays the power of Kawasaki robots’ through-arm design, open programming platform, and KRNX API plugin combined with Realtime Robotics’ innovative motion planning and collision avoidance software. Attendees can interact with the cell by altering the robots motion path in real time — all without any reprogramming or manual verification of motion planning. Users are able to start, stop, or reset all or any individual robots: modify target allocation; change target order; and add or remove existing targets to the robot sequence. Thanks to Kawasaki’s hardware and RTR’s software, programming requirements can be shortened by weeks and manufacturing floorspace optimized.
The Future of Smart Machines: See firsthand why startups love Kawasaki’s KRNX API plugin for advanced automation. By enabling real-time control, KRNX continuously updates joint angles on the robot, giving advanced users full control of the robot’s motion and the ability to execute complex and irregular applications. KRNX opens the door for Kawasaki robots to leverage unlimited external computing power, enabling anything from machine learning applications to advanced safety.
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