If you are buying a new robot then you won't need or want to use LCNC to control it. There is a big difference in robot controls. Look carefully.
As mentioned most robot companies will do a simulation for you and make recommendations. If this is for a production machine you need to consider service. We had a brand new Yaskawa robot die after being powered up for about 30 days. The CPU board died. The customer was onsite when it died as we were doing the run off. Within 5 hours we had a Yaskawa tech onsite and he swapped some boards and the robot was back up and running within 6 hours of our call. Not everyone can provide that level of service. You may be able to do all of this with a simple and relatively cheap gantry cartesian robot/pick and place. Buying a 6 axis robot to do what you want may be an overkill, especially if the parts are already orientated in an indexable carousel. Look at lathe part loaders etc. You typically do not need a 6 axis robot for that kind of thing. That is pick and place territory. You may be able to do everything with pneumatic cylinders and actuators. Much cheaper than a 6 axis robot. Check out Festo and SMC for actuators. PHD makes some nice grippers. However if you are going to run different parts then a 6 axis robot might make more sense. Load a different program, or re teach it, change grippers and go. Dave On 3/16/2017 10:40 AM, Andy Evans wrote: > Folks, I really appreciate the replies I've gotten here. You've helped > me gain a much better picture of what will be involved. Our forecasts > and budget analysis leads me to believe that we could seriously use this > robot within the next year, based on what it will take to put into place. > > To state what we will want this robot to do: > > Grip a part from a magazine (Think 35mm slide carousel) > load into fixture, get out of the way > (Machine tool runs) > pick part from fixture > index part 180 degrees (wrist rotate) > put part back into fixture, get out of the way > (Machine tool runs) > pick part from fixture > reload into magazine > perform move that manually indexes magazine > repeat > > The environment is moist but do not anticipate that this unit would get > wet. We would have it within the machine cabinet. > > We are thinking that we need a small industrial robot (Mitsubishi, > Fanuc) with .002" or so accuracy. The fixture will do some > self-aligning of the part as it is clamped. Does anyone have any > recommendations and sources for a suitable robot? > > Thanks again! > Andy > > ------------------------------ > > Andy Evans > Evans Precision Tooling Incorporated > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
