Customer: lighting manufacturer with a plant in Lemgo.
Robot: IRB 4600-45Kg.
Application: handling of several different parts between feed conveyor, machine, unload conveyor and, depending on the part, XZY palletizing and depalletizing with intermediate layer handling.
Highlights:
Part position detection by a robot-mounted Sensopart camera communicating with the robot via a PC interface.
Search moves during depalletizing to find parts and detect pallet stack height.
Insertion of the part onto two centering pins in the machine within a tolerance of <1.5mm.
Customer scope:
Complete 3D CAD simulation.
Offline programming.
Initial on-site setup.
Full camera commissioning.
Profinet configuration for PLC and gripper.
On-site commissioning at the customer.
Attendorn, Germany
FANUC Robotics Project
Schipmann Automation
Client: welding systems manufacturer in Attendorn.
Customer: automotive supplier in Attendorn.
Robots: 2x R2000 on a shared R30iB controller.
Application: spot welding using welding tongs as grippers for various parts on two sides of a rotary table, each side featuring a rotatable tool as a part holder.
Highlights: configuring and parameterizing both robots, the rotary table, both rotatable part holders, and both welding tongs (17 axes in total) via the robot controller, as well as motion programming.
Customer scope:
Programming for changeover of the system to new parts.
Process optimizations for cap milling and cap changing.
Dillingen, Germany
KUKA Robotics Project
Schipmann Automation
Client: automation engineer from Hüfingen.
Customer: steel mill in Dillingen.
Robot: KR 60 L30-4 KS-F as KRC4.
Application: handling of various parts between two drawer inlays (XY palletizing and depalletizing), DMC code camera, Keyence shadow camera, C-frame laser sensor, DMC code laser, alignment station, fixture for calibrated sample part, NIO scrap drawer, and a lathe.
Highlights:
Defining parts of different shapes and lengths by measurement and feeding them into a lathe.
Over 25,000 lines of code.
Project duration over nine months.
Measurement accuracy <1mm.
Measurements performed solely by robot logic.
Customer scope:
Full configuration and commissioning of the robot and all related tasks.
After on-site commissioning, write documentation and conduct a one-week customer training.
Bielefeld, Germany
Siemens TIA SPS Project
Schipmann Automation
Client + Customer: Bielefeld-based production company for acoustic solutions in the automotive industry.
Control system: Siemens S7-1500 and ET200S.
Application: converting a press with conveyor for mask production during the COVID pandemic with the highest possible automation level.
Highlight: short-notice project with high time pressure.
Customer scope:
Designing and programming a robot cell for the press.
Reprogramming the Siemens controller and integrating the robot, ET200S, and all actuators.