Mechanical Technology

Mechanical Technology — September 2016

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Automation, mechatronics and electro-mechanical systems

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outh Africa is one of 39 coun-

tries globally to benefit from

Omron’s April 2016 worldwide

launch of 49 new best-in-

class robots. The robots are integrated

with Omron’s family of sensors, safety

components and award-winning NX/NJ-

series machine automation controllers to

simplify the implementation of robotic

automation in production environments.

These flexible and agile new solutions

are ideally suited to the local food and

beverage, automotive and high technology

industries. Evert Janse van Vuuren elabo-

rates: “The programming software used

for the Adept Robots – Adept Ace – has an

integrated setup wizard, guiding the user

through the configuration setup, allowing

fast, easy and user-friendly configuration

for pick-and-place sequences for many

of the application scenarios pertaining to

the South African market, including: pick-

and-place applications from stationary

OMRON has launched a new series of industrial robots, including

49 best-in-class robots from three robot families: Delta (Quattro);

SCARA (eCobra); and Articulated (Viper).

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Omron has released 49 new best-in-class robots, includ-

ing models from three robot families, from left: Delta

(Quattro); SCARA (eCobra); and Articulated (Viper).

Omron’s automation control environment (ACE Emulator)

is an intelligent virtual software program with powerful

3D emulation and validation tools. It contains application-

oriented wizards to significantly minimise the amount of

programming code required.

Integrated industrial robots solutions

launched in SA

platforms; belt camera part picking: fixed

camera part picking; and static pick-and-

place applications. In many applications

relating to pick-and-place, with or without

cameras or belt tracking, no complex cod-

ing is necessary, due to the setup wizard’s

automatic code generator.”

He adds that a major benefit of this

launch is that it provides industrial robot

models that achieve high-speed perfor-

mance and reliability. “The release of the

three robot families – SCARA, Delta and

Articulated – brings both high-speed per-

formance and reliability to the mechani-

cal side of the Omron solution. All the

robots can be controlled by a common

integrated development environment,

which enables flexible use of robot types

in line with the required applications.”

Van Vuuren says it also enables com-

prehensive linkage with control products,

such as PLCs, “as Omron industrial robot

solutions seamlessly link all robots with

the machine control environment man-

aged by the Sysmac automation plat-

form,” concludes Van Vuuren.