Mechanical Technology September 2016

⎪ Automation, mechatronics and electro-mechanical systems ⎪

Integrated industrial robots solutions launched in SA

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).

S 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

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

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.

the machine control environment man- aged by the Sysmac automation plat- form,” concludes Van Vuuren. q

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