Raise Robotics
Building the Future: How cobots are revolutionizing the construction industry
Kort fortalt
Raumland GmbH, en tredje generations familieejet virksomhed, analyserer, filtrerer, etiketterer, flasker og sender vine til flere vinproducenter. Med over fem millioner flasker og 2.500 forskellige vine, der forarbejdes årligt, håndterer Raumland en enorm mangfoldighed i sin aftapning. For at fokusere på produktkvalitet, øge effektiviteten og reducere medarbejdernes arbejdsbyrde er familievirksomheden afhængig af en samarbejdende robot. UR20 palleterer vinkartoner for enden af aftapningslinjen, hvilket sikrer jævn drift.
Udfordring
Ikke længere manuelt palletering for enden af tappelinjen havde længe været et ønske for Raumland. I løbet af en enkelt 8-timers vagt skulle medarbejderne flytte en samlet pakkevægt på op til 40 tons. Med et bredt udvalg af vine og betydelige krav til forskellige emballager har traditionel automatisering nået sine grænser. "Hver løsningsudbyder havde altid en eller anden form for ulempe, uanset om det var fleksibilitet, systemets størrelse eller prisen," forklarer administrerende direktør Sebastian Raumland.
Raumland GmbH
Industri Mad og drikkevarer
Land Tyskland
Antal medarbejdere 10-25
Cobot brugt UR20
Nøgleværdidrivere:
Øget effektivitet og reduceret restance end-of-line Hurtig tilpasning til forskellige kartontyper og palleteringsmønstre
Opgaver løst af samarbejdende robotter:
Palletering af vinkartoner for enden af aftapningslinjen
Løst automatiseringsudfordringer:
Aflastning for arbejdsstyrken, der ikke længere behøver at stable tunge vinkartoner
How they did it
Safety always first in mind
In this compromised position, workers need to accurately align, drill, and torque brackets in place to precise specifications. Not only is the job dangerous, unergonomic, and repetitive for the worker, there is also significant chance for injury if a tool or bracket falls to the ground below, where other workers may be.
Don Birmingham, general superintendent for Harmon, says, “Safety is always first in mind. If you can efficiently do a job and take all the safety risks out of it, I think any contractor would sign up for that. As far as the workers, I think they'd much rather be inside the handrail operating a robot than hanging off the edge of the building.”
Construction robot provides labor multiplier, with ROI in just one project
For façade brackets, the manual process typically requires two to four workers. In comparison, the Raise robot requires only one person to manage the robot per installation location.
“It's a 3X multiplier on traditional labor,” says Conley Oster, co-founder of Raise Robotics. That multiplier provides fast ROI for the robot, typically providing breakeven for the robot at about 13 floors based on monthly lease and amortizing the robot across the number of installations on each floor.
UR20 robots meet stringent demands for onsite construction robot
Raise mounts two UR20 robot arms on a mobile robot base for each of its construction robots. The small footprint and control boxes of the UR20 make them easy to integrate into a mobile application. Raise co-founder Gary Chen explains, “Because Universal Robots has done a great job of making their arms very power efficient, as well as making it easy to integrate into a DC power solution, we can directly connect our arms to the battery and have our robots operating fully, wirelessly on a construction site.”
IP65 rating allows robots to take on tough tasks in extreme conditions
The UR20’s IP65 rating unlocks potential and provides confidence for Raise and its customers in using the robots even in inclement environments including dust and rain, as well as extreme temperatures. Raise Robotics has run the robot successfully from 20°F below zero up to 120°F.
UR support helps drive start-up success
To develop its system, Raise used a wide variety of resources from UR, from online technical documentation, to support via myUR, as well as the forums on both the Universal Robots website as well as their GitHub.
“Support from UR has been fantastic,” says Oster. “Any issues that we ran into or any questions that we had early on, we had a dedicated applications engineer from UR that was able to help us. The UR community and forums were extremely helpful to us as well. We were always able to come up with a solution in a timely manner.”
Don Birmingham, general superintendent, HarmonI believe if there were more robots on the job site, there'd be less risk of any injuries
Improved quality and consistency
One of the biggest challenges on construction sites is making sure that parts are installed correctly every single time, over hundreds of thousands of installations.
Adding to the safety advantages of the robot is its ability to install fasteners accurately, precisely, and consistently.
Oster says, “In manual installs, around 30% of all fasteners typically aren't installed in the right spot. Using a robot like ours in conjunction with total stations allows us to accurately place fasteners on the building's edge or within the building's core. We can install within plus or minus three sixteenths of an inch, which is far superior to what we've seen in manual installations.”
The Raise Robotics system also includes software that provides immediate insight and historical logs of on-site data. This gives exact torque values and alignment for every bracket in real time, as opposed to random quality inspections that are typically done a few times on each floor. Harmon had “as built” data, which allowed the team to adjust anchor positioning before the glass walls were installed. Birmingham says, “I think the most benefit we got was the reports of where the anchors were installed. The sooner we found any deviations beyond specs, the easier it was to eliminate them going forward.”
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