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Article: Robot crash protection.(Power Transmission And Motion Control)(robot crash sensor reduces manufacturing down time)
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Robot end-of-arm tooling is often costly and easily damaged by minor crashes that take place during setup of a new job or during actual production. During the training phase of robotic applications, when the robot arm is walked through its operations to map out the desired path and function, it can run into obstructions outside its normal work pattern. In production, robots may perform assembly operations on parts that are manually loaded and not always in the ideal position.
Guide Corp. of Monroe, La., which supplies automobile headlights, uses industrial robots to perform adhesive trace operations on its assembly lines. Lighting subassemblies are manually loaded ...