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Electrolux has been able to achieve substantial energy savings of up to 15 percent when compared to the old production line process by using ABB robots.
ABB has revealed its smallest ever multipurpose industrial robot, the compact and lightweight six-axis IRB 120, weighing only 25kg.
The topic of safety has been bandied around a lot lately due to the economic crisis. Some companies are investing in safety systems to avoid the overhead of expensive occupational health and safety (OHS) law suits, while others aren’t factoring it into their lowering budgets, preferring to see it
After having difficulty finding qualified and skilled staff for his spray painting facility, Hilustre Coatings Pty Ltd general manager, Peter Harrison, investigated the possibility of using robots to replace humans, and realised a 40 per cent increase in productivity.
As an addition to its range of top-end DC Servo motors, maxon motor has launched the RE 50, which the company claims is an extremely high density 200W power pack, wrapped into bare minimum dimensions.
ABB’s new IRB 4600 robot – which has been described as the fastest, most accurate, low-weight, medium-sized robot ever with a 20 kg to 60 kg payload – will be revealed to the industry at National Manufacturing Week (NMW) 2009 in May in Melbourne.
When Australian cannery SPC Ardmona switched its palletising system, it found other advantages other than just packing more pallets. The new system also opened up opportunities for new business.
ABB has developed an exciting automation robot that can perform random bin-picking tasks, locating jumbled materials from bins, which is designed for various applications including materials handling tasks.