Toolcraft, a machine shop in Monroe, Washington, was immediately impressed by the 30 µm repeatability and built-in force/torque sensing in Universal Robots' new flagship line of collaborative robots. The company needed to automate a challenging, three-operation machine tending task inside its CNC machine and has saved 23% on production costs and increased throughput 43% by using the UR5e cobot.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2019-12-02
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/news/cobot-handles-multiple-operation-machining-task-medical-device/
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