ABB Robotics launches new Extremely Accuracy characteristic

ABB Robotics, a number one developer of robotic arm know-how, has launched Extremely Accuracy, a brand new characteristic for its GoFa cobot household that delivers the very best degree of precision obtainable in cobots – enabling over 10 instances larger path accuracy in comparison with different cobots in the marketplace.

“As industries look to automation to boost product high quality and obtain tighter tolerances – repeatedly lowering the utmost allowable deviation from the usual in high quality management – there’s a rising want for robots that may carry out duties with distinctive precision. By combining ultra-accurate path efficiency with GoFa’s inherent simplicity, security, and suppleness, ABB’s new Extremely Accuracy characteristic opens a variety of prospects for the usage of cobots in companies together with electronics, automotive, aerospace, and steel fabrication,” mentioned Andrea Cassoni, World Head of Collaborative Robots for ABB Robotics.

With its superior efficiency, Extremely Accuracy meets the calls for of functions the place actual positioning is essential for sustaining product high quality and operational effectivity. Functions embrace gluing and sealing in client electronics manufacturing, laser welding of automobile components, composite materials layers in aerospace manufacturing, and precision laser slicing in steel fabrication processes. It may also be used for precisely positioning additive layers in constructing prototypes in 3D printing, and for performing precision high quality checking in metrology functions.

Further advantages embrace the mix of precision with pace and a full vary of movement. In contrast to typical 2D gantry programs historically utilized in electronics manufacturing, GoFa cobots supply full 6D movement throughout their whole workspace – upon supply – with out requiring extra calibration work, offering the flexibleness and mobility to deal with a broader vary of duties.

GoFa’s compact and moveable design ensures that it may be simply built-in into present manufacturing strains with out the necessity for costly customization, providing a definite benefit over gantry-based programs. GoFa, with the Extremely Accuracy characteristic, might be launched into manufacturing with minimal set up and deployment time, because the calibration is finished within the manufacturing unit previous to supply.

The highly effective mixture of Extremely Accuracy and RobotStudio permits the programming of functions offline, with a 99% match between the simulation and actuality – eliminating the necessity for touch-ups and guaranteeing exact and environment friendly implementation. The Extremely Accuracy characteristic is out there for brand new GoFas and as a retrofit choice for present GoFa cobots.