Seamless automation with cobotic precision
Archytas Robotics then developed, in collaboration with CIR (Universal Robots distributor), a complete station based on a UR5e cobot - equipped with a Schunk gripper -, an Asyril power supply system supplied by Sysaxes, and a drawer system. This station received CE marking from the safety organization Socotec.
Since then, this cobotic solution, tailored to VCN Industries' needs, has operated as follows. The parts to be engraved are placed by the operator in the Asyril system's stainless steel hopper. The latter vibrates to drop some into a white platform, called the Asycube. A camera checks that the parts are present and compliant and, if necessary, requests a supply.
Once parts are detected in the Asycube, their coordinates are sent to the cobot, which can then retrieve one of them precisely using the Schunk gripper. It then recenters it on a pin—or mechanical centering device—and presents it to the laser marking machine.
Once the engraving is complete, the finished piece is placed in a blister pack. The process is then repeated for the following pieces until the blister pack is full.
To master the solution and record new recipes themselves, the operators received just one week of training from Archytas Robotics.
