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• Wood | Timber

  Processing and Packaging of Wood/Timber and wooden Products - sawing, milling, drilling,

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• Education | R&D | ROS

  Motoman Robots in Research Labs, Education, ROS, Matlab, Labview

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• Semiconductor

  The 21st century is the IOT and fast connectivity era which is based on Semiconductor technology. Today’s industry needs more sophisticated systems for semiconductor manufacturing. Yaskawa is committed to excellence and extensive mechatronics technology, engaged in R&D projects in clean and vacuum technology.

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• Painting | Spraying

  Painting, Spraying, Coating, Powder Coating and Ink Printing with Motoman Robots Painting or coating production tasks are exactly what robots are designed for. Robots also spray on solvent-based paints with or without high voltage, always achieving the same results. In the automated cell it is easier to maintain a consistent temperature and humidity, resulting in reproducible quality. Although a MOTOMAN robotic system is extremely fast, its high precision and well-coordinated movements along the path save a considerable amount of time and reduce waste. The paint coating is applied consistently at maximum speed, with guaranteed perfect results. For Painting and Coating in ATEX environments, we recommend the MPX series robots, offering a range of painting robots that are perfectly tailored to customer requirements and provide top quality results. Motoman GP Series Robots can also be ATEX-certified, and are used for spraying or coating applications. The new Collaborative HC10DT-IP67 and HC20DT-IP67 are perfect for small and lean fenceless coating installations replacing human workplaces. Direct-teach hand-guiding is perfect to train and replicate trajectories in a short time.

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• Arc Welding

  Motoman Robots in Arc Welding (Thermal Assembly) We are "the State of the Arc" Arc welding is the core of our company. Over four decades, Yaskawa has developed and delivered more welding robots, sensors, software and positioners than any other company. Our MOTOMAN robotic welding competence and path control leads the industry, with robotic welding technology that tackles your biggest challenges. And - we provide excellent expert support throughout the world, wherever your target production site is located. Yaskawa Motoman - we know what we are doing. YASKAWA Motoman Robots are the best choice for any kind of arc welding.

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• Assembly

  Assembly and Disassembly with Motoman Robots Industrial robots can be used to automate the tasks involved with putting together or disassembling a product, such as industrial or automotive components and machinery, furniture, or electronics components. Robots can either manipulate an assembly tool (e.g. nutrunner), or move the workpiece to/from a stationary assembly station. In this case, specialized gripper tooling is attached to the end of the arm, to manipulate parts and assemblies in several stages.

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• Material Removal

  Robots for Precise Mechanical Material Removal Machining, Milling, Drilling/Boring, Reaming, Deburring, and more with Motoman Robots Since decades, Yaskawa Motoman Robots have been excessively used in a wide range of robotic solutions for all kind of cutting, finishing, polishing, grinding, milling, deburring or other material removal applications. The reason is that MOTOMAN Robots offer the right composition of industrial rigidity, stiffness, sensitivity and dust-/liquid proof kind of design which you could expect from a 6-axis-robot challenged by such tough applications - often being heavily exposed to unpredictable external forces, vibration, dust, chips, liquids and all kind of challenging workpiece geometry variations.

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• Machine Tending

  Machine Tending - Loading/Unloading with Motoman Robots Robotic machine tending (CNC Machine Automation) is the process of using a robot system to automatically load and unload a production machine. This can be any kind of machine, most common are CNC machine tools or Injection moulding machines. Some large machine tool manufacturers are offering robotic loading/unloading as ex-works standard options. But in most application cases the layouts, workflows, workpieces and requirements are so individual case by case, that Specialized System Integrators are offering a wide variety of standardized and individual robotic automation.

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• Picking | Packing

  Picking and Packing / Unpacking and Packaging Picking and Packing is a variation of Pick & Place for Packaging applications, where the placing motion is modified to fill parts into containers, boxes or crates. Some people say PPP - Pick, Place and Pack. Therefore, it is a core process in Packaging Industry and Logistics. Compared to classical Pick&Place, the Placing motion of a packaging operation requires some more motion versatility to place or stack parts in a certain set-down pattern, this is why 6-axis GP Series robots are used here. When placing parts into Carton boxes, flexible trajectories could be required to prevent side walls or lid of cartons to fold in. Depending on the gripper design, all kind of workpieces like boxes, bottles, bags can be packed.

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• Press Tending

  Press Tending with Motoman Robots - Durability That Delivers For sheet metal press tending or stamping applications with high duty cycles, our press handling robots are ideal. Designed with heavy-duty drive systems that deliver in the most demanding applications, these robots also have higher vibration ratings to tolerate the tough conditions often encountered in press rooms. Yaskawa MOTOMAN Integration Partners have developed solutions for part infeed, transfer and pack-out/racking of sheet metal press lines and stand-alone press systems. They offer custom end-of arm tooling, as well as interfaces to various presses and equipment, and support press line control system features diagnostic capabilities for the line and each individual press. We are supporting our Integrators by providing excellent press tending manipulators and controls, as well as technology like encoder/conveyor and communication interfaces, Functional Safety Features to manage safe operating zones and workspaces, simulation and engineering tools, helping to optimize equipment layout and maximize throughput.

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• Palletizing

  Palletizing and Depalletizing with Motoman Robots Palletizing is the act of stacking products onto a wooden (or plastic) shipping pallet for transport. Depalletizing is the unloading of these products at the destination. Palletizing is a relatively simple application for a robot to accomplish, as it involves minimal variation. Depalletizing is more complex and typically involves machine vision and sophisticated end effectors. Yaskawa Motoman offers manufacturers a wide range of robotic solutions for palletizing and depalletizing. When using flexible robotics with 2D and 3D vision systems, specialized software and tooling enable you to customize your shipping and receiving without sacrificing speed and accuracy.

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• Spot & Roll Seam Welding

  Spot Welding with Motoman Robots Robotic Spot Welding Applications are most common in Automotive OEM and Tier1 Body Shops, automatically assembling car bodies and their sub-assemblies. We have collaborated with automotive OEMs to create innovative robots to improve body shop productivity, and to comply with their body shop standards, leading to an installed base of ten-thousands of Motoman Robots throughout the world. We are offering the full bandwidth of robots models and technology required here - payloads, reaches, integrated and external spot harnesses / dress packs and servo-controlled spot guns.

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• Pallet Repair

  Pallet Assembly, Dismantling and Repair with Motoman Robots This world's transport logistics is based on pallets. While single pallets will be recycled and finally burned, pool pallets are taken back and repaired if damaged. Doing this manually in pallet repair centers means lifting 30kg pallets from staples, using dangerous tiger saws and nailing for the workers. Motoman Robots are shifting this dangerous work to robots and are able to assemble custom pallets automatically, including handling and glueing. The repair works both with open pool pallets and closed pool pallets. Assembly of Single Pallets with GP Series Robots

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• Mobile Robots

  Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) on Mobile Platforms (AGV) Moving robots in mobile platforms from place to place automatically - this exciting idea has been realized in many single and pilot projects over the last years. Multi-Machine operations, robots working without classical desks, case picking, automatic refill of storages in retail logistics ... Project realization was often impaired by technical challenges, like power supply of the robot / tool, battery endurance, reach/payload, gripper technology, vision technology, navigation and positioning accuracy, path and job planning, communication to MES/ERP Systems or fleet managing software, and safety consideration when operating the platform in the middle of workers. In the end - this technology is waiting for a mass production breakthrough. In the end the pick rates compared to manual work were lower, and the cost of the complete installation were good to rectify technology scouting, but not a proper return on investment of a real application. But there is hope - modern Cobots with long reach (like the HC10, HC20) and Industrial Digitalisation have become really promising enablers to achieve a breakthrough of robot arms on mobile platforms. Many System Integrators are on their way to attack an interesting world of logistic and multi-machine connecting applications. YASKAWA is ready to supply the robotic and controls technology.

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• Labelling | Marking

  Labelling, Marking, Engraving and 2D-Printing with Motoman Robots Labelling, marking amd printing with robots is much more versatile and flexible than using hard-automated labelling stations. Sometimes even half time job for robots, and the labelling job is combined with other robotic tasks in packaging lines. For more info about 3D Printing, check our chapter "Additive Manufacturing". Here is more info about using Motoman robots for paper handling in the Printing Industry.

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• Friction Welding

  Friction Welding and Friction Stir Welding Friction Welding with Motoman GP Series Robots Motoman Robots have been successfully installed to handle parts for friction welding machines. The workpiece handling is trickier than a classical Machine Tending Operation, but this is where Motoman GP Series and SDA robots play out their strengths!

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• Ultrasonic Welding

  Ultrasonic Welding with Motoman Robots Robotic Ultrasonic welding is widely used in the Automotive Tier1 industry. Applications range from exterior parts (front and rear bumpers), interior components (seats, side door trim, center console, insulation cotton) to engine compartment components (water chutes, battery covers, cylinder head cover, engine covers), to lighting, filters and acoustic foams. Welders can be operated immediately without heat-up time. Cycle times are short, and energy consumption is low. General Industry Applications include White Good components like washing machine and tumble dryer covers.

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• Roller Hemming

  Sheet metal Folding with Motoman Robots

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• Mechanical Joining

  Mechanical Fastening / Joining with Motoman Robots When it comes to robotic automation of a mechanical joining operation, Automation Experts often prefer to let the robot move the workpiece, not the fastener tool. Fastening machinery is often designed for stationary installation (e.g. on a stand) as they require media supply (power, fastener feeding) and may cause reaction forces/moments or vibrations during the joining process. But for those cases where the robot is operating an assembly tool like a fastener, nutrunner, riveter, clinch tool, it is good to know that the industrial quality of all Motoman GP, HC, SIA and SDA series robots is absolutely rigid and strong enough to withstand the reaction forces/moments and vibrations resulting from the assembly process.

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• Robotic Inspirations...

  Cool and Innovative Robotic Applications with Motoman Robots Think new, think different - innovative robots have always inspired people to do something fascinating new with robots. We are always excited what our customers do with our Motoman Robots! Let yourself be inspired by the collection of videos below. Surprisingly or not, most of the actors are our Motoman 7/15-axis SIA / SDA Series robot models! Inspiring Robot Application Ideas A MH3 Robot folding a ribbon around a box of chocolates.

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• Grinding | Polishing

  Abrasive Surface Finishing (Grinding, Polishing, Sanding) with Motoman GP Series Robots In many companies, sanding and polishing is a tough manual job, and people often do not get the idea to automate their polishing process. Workers have to wear protective safety clothing and are exposed to chemicals all the day - robots withstand all these challenges easily. Many polishing automation jobs are pretty straight forward and simple to automate - with the right reliable Motoman Robot providing the requested stability, speed and IP protection.

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• Human-Robot Collaboration

  Human-Robot-Collaboration with Motoman Cobots (HC Series) The term Human-Robot-Collaboration refers to using a type of robot which is designed to work in close proximity to humans, possibly even directly controlled by human workers through touch and guidance. This type of robot is different from traditional industrial robotic arms which are faster, heavier and more powerful, but too dangerous for humans to work with directly, and are caged off in factories and wherever else they are used. Basically, the application range of collaborative robots (Cobots) is similar to classical Industrial Robots, including Assembly, Machine Tending, Palletizing, Quality Inspection, Arc Welding, Glueing, Bonding, Polishing, Deburring. The differentiation point is that the realisation of a collaborative application should include elements of Human-Robot Coexistence, Cooperation and Collaboration. With collaborative robots, you basically sacrifice speed for the chance of fenceless installations and the benefits of real human-robot interaction. The growth in global collaborative robot sales has been phenomenal, but mainly not because they are allowing safe cooperation with humans, but because configuration, commissioning and operating is so easy. This allows small- and medium-sized companies to step into automation ef existing work environments at affordable investments. YASKAWA are offering our HC Series Robot models for safe & direct Human-Robot-Collaboration. But - good news - easy-to use concepts are also available for classical GP Series handling robots as well, like the innovative Smart Pendant. Brochure Robot Assistants_Collaborative Applications Material Handling Applications with Motoman Cobots Collaborative Material Handling makes sense when avoiding to fence the robot in, for example in case of public traffic passing by, or if you just want to relief workers from annoying, error-prone or repetitive labour.

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• Pumps & Compressors

  Under pressure we do our best Compressed air and vacuum play an important role in many industrial processes. Whether for driving pneumatic tools or for surface coating. Speedcontrolled systems combine top performance with maximum energy efficiency. Download the Brochuere

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