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On the left, Okuma’s new ORL-R rotary cell robotic, and on the proper, its ORL-D drawer cell robotic. | Supply: Okuma America Corp.
Okuma America Corp. final week introduced the Okuma Robotic Chief, or ORL, sequence of automation. It consists of three proprietary merchandise designed to load and unload workpieces from Okuma machines to extend productiveness and operator effectivity, stated the corporate.
“Our crew is worked up to carry the ORL sequence to market and showcase its capabilities at IMTS 2024,” said Wade Anderson, vice chairman of engineering at Okuma America’s Manufacturing facility Automation Division. “With its compact footprint and simple integration course of, an ORL unit can rapidly make an impression for machine retailers of any dimension.”
The Charlotte, N.C.-based firm is a division of Okuma Corp., a supplier of pc numeric management (CNC) machine instruments, controls, and automation programs based in 1898 in Nagoya, Japan. It additionally manufactures CNC controls, drives, motors, encoders, and spindles.
As well as, the firm launched the Okuma App Retailer in 2014, and it has a distribution community and a Companions in Know-how (beforehand Companions in THINC) community for producers within the Americas.
Okuma to unveil three robots at IMTS
On the Worldwide Manufacturing Know-how Present (IMTS) subsequent month in Chicago, the Manufacturing facility Automation Division will present its new ORL product line:
- Okuma Robotic Loader – Drawer (ORL-D): It is a drawer-style unit with a regular template that may retailer as much as 92 workpieces. The corporate additionally gives an elective template that holds as much as 180 smaller workpieces.
- Okuma Robotic Loader – Rotary (ORL-R): This rotary, disc-style workpiece storage unit has quite a lot of template choices that may maintain as much as 166 workpieces.
- Okuma Robotic Loader – Machining Heart (ORL-MC): This storage unit can maintain as much as 288 workpieces. The corporate stated its patented MultiGrip workholding permits customers to automate a number of OP10, OP20, and OP30 half numbers in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing.
Okuma stated every ORL product has been strategically designed with a compact footprint, requiring solely between 8 and 9 sq. ft. (0.7 to 0.8 sq. m) of flooring house. As well as, every product makes use of FANUC industrial robotic arms and grippers, which might maintain a payload of as much as 25 lb. (11.3 kg).
Elements dealing with to be demonstrated
Okuma stated it designed these machines to work alongside its current line of merchandise. For instance, it is going to show its ORL-R robotic with the MULTUS B300II multitasking machine to load and unload components.
On the identical time, an accompanying collaborative robotic will switch the components from a cart moved by an autonomous cell robotic (AMR) into one of many unit’s pallet drawers.
Additionally at IMTS, the corporate will pair the ORL-MC with a GENOS M560V0-5AX five-axis vertical machining middle plus an computerized device changer (ATC). The unit will load and unload demo components from the machine onto the ORL pallets.
The ORL-MC may also swap the workholding within the machine primarily based on which slicing operation will likely be carried out on the half, stated Okuma.
