Collaborative robots in Plastics & Polymers
Injection and blow molding operations don’t make money unless the mold is closed. But loading and unloading machines is dull, repetitive, and injury-prone work that is challenging to staff. That makes it ideal for automation. UR robot arms are available in a range of reach and payload capabilities. They can be integrated into existing facilities with high-mix, low-volume production that can’t be cost-effectively automated with traditional, larger robots.
Flexible cobots can also be redeployed throughout a plastics manufacturing facility to automate many other processes. Those include secondary processes such as degating, grinding, sprue removal, and polishing, as well as applying labels or decals to plastic parts. Cobots can also handle assembly and packaging and palletizing processes, working safely alongside operators after a risk assessment.
