Measurement Production Line Upgrade | Robot Automatic Loading and Unloading

With the continuous integration of informatization and industrialization, and the continuous development of the intelligent manufacturing industry, the intelligent industry represented by robot arm is booming. The emergence of industrial robot arms solved the difficult recruitment problems caused by the harsh working environment and high labor intensity.

Using a robot arm instead of an operator can automatically complete various loading and unloading tasks such as measuring piece grasping, loading, and unloading during the automatic piece measurement process, which can greatly save labor costs and improve production efficiency.

Especially for the measurement of large quantities and small parts, human factors have a great influence on the measurement efficiency. Using one robot arm with multiple sets of measuring machines, one operator can control multiple sets of measuring machines at the same time, realizing less humanization of quality control, thereby reducing production costs, improving work efficiency and product quality, and improving the economic benefits of the company.

To realize the automatic loading and unloading of the robot arm, it must first obtain the information of the loading and unloading signal sent by the measuring machine. After the information is processed by the control system, it outputs a control signal to control the actuator to complete the corresponding action.

How to solve the effective and reliable information transmission between the measuring machine and the robotic arm is particularly important to realize the automatic loading and unloading of the robotic arm.

The following is a case of our Micro-Vu automatic vision measuring machine Excel 500 and Vertex equipped with robotic arm for automatic loading and unloading:

The robot arm clamps the measuring piece from the raw material tray and sends it to the measuring stage of the measuring machine. It completes the measurement of the piece according to the pre-set measurement program. After the measurement is completed, the piece is judged as NG or OK according to the measurement result, then it is placed on the designated position.

One robot arm can be equipped with multiple sets of measuring machines to realize automatic operation of loading and unloading, product quality management and intelligent discrimination and classification.

During the whole process, the piece clamping on the raw material tray, the placement on the measurement stage, and the start of the measurement program all need to accurately receive the command signal from the robotic arm. At the same time, information such as whether the measurement of the measuring machine is wrong or not needs to be accurately transmitted to the robotic arm to ensure the smooth progress of the entire process.