First Orbital Sanding and Plasma Cutting Capabilities Extended to the new e-Series at FABTECH 2018

Danish collaborative robot (cobot) expert Universal Robots, diagrammatic by RARUK within the UK, is to unveil a series of developments at the Fabtech exhibition held in Houston, Texas, next week.These take in plug-and-play integration with Dynabrade orbital sanders, ARC Specialties? SnapCut and seventh-axis capabilities from Vention.SnapCut (a partner of ESAB) permits traditional metal fabricators with no previous robotic or programming information to simply cut shapes in three-dimensional steel elements. SnapCut employs Universal Robots? UR10e cobot to control a Hypertherm cutting torch to desired positions round the cutting path. enclosed within the SnapCut software package integrated directly on the robot?s teach pendant are normal shapes like squares, rectangles, circles or C-channels which will be hand-picked for constant quantity programming. The operator can merely move the cutting torch to some locations on the cutting surface, hit run and watch the sparks fly.Another manual task currently addressed by cobots is sanding. FABTECH is the official launch pad for Dynabrade?s (https://dynashop.co.uk) new robotic sander kit that simply received UR+ certification. The kit includes pneumatic sanders, robot mount and a solenoid enabling robotic operation via the ur teach pendant. We are finding that many of our customers have an interest in mounting our tools on robots,? says Frank Lehman, Dynabrade?s head of engineering, emphasising the benefit of providing Dynabrade users with a turn-key resolution sanctionative them to mount the sanders on cooperative robots. ?Cobots are terribly reasonable and easy, permitting our finish users to bring automation into their workplace while not the expense and learning curve of ancient robots. With city being the leader within the cobot business, it was obvious to bring our sanders to the UR+ platform.?The physical reach of city robot arms is currently improved through Vention's new seventh-axis range extender, designed for all 3 city models and shortly to be featured within the UR+ panopticon, too. ?We?re proud to contribute to the UR+ ecosystem with fast style and commissioning of automaton cells,? says Saint Patrick Halde, vice president of sales and business development with Vention (http://www.vention.io). ?Our new seventh-axis resolution are often controlled with Vention?s MachineMotion controller directly through the ur cobot?s touch-screen, permitting users to assemble and self-commission in hours.?