Robots and safety: the discussion never gets old. Safety will always come first in a production environment as our human capital is the most valuable of all.
You canโt imagine todayโs manufacturing shopfloor without picturing at least one or two robots working alongside the operators. Robots have been around for decades already and they take away many heavy burdens such as repetitive tasks or handling heavy parts. But we do need to ensure that operators arenโt harmed by their robotic colleagues.
As the global market leader in CNC Automation, RoboJob has invested significantly in the safety of operators. Some of our safety features are even unique for an industrial robot/cobot. Let's take our DIY cobot Coby CNC for example:
๐ Cobyโs accuracy enables a very small margin of max 2,5 mm between the gripper finger and the workpiece. Grippers have to be set as predefined by our software. No room for fingers here.
๐ฆพ Should someone stick a finger in a closing gripper, he or she will have enough time to retract it as the opening and closing of the gripper is slowed down. On top of that the grippers only have a limited stroke, so no harm can be done to an unattended operator.
๐๏ธThe chuck is a topic that millions of operators are familiar with for the past century. Chuck suppliers have successfully minimized this risk by keeping the stroke as tiny as possible. But we provide something extra so please continue reading.
โ๏ธ Nowadays you can completely robotize the placing of a workpiece into a chuck. The latter only starts its closing process once the workpiece is positioned perfectly inside the chuck. Should one intervene for some reason or touch the cobot, it instantly freezes - as demonstrated in the video below.
๐ชThe door of any machine should be automated with an internal or external safety mechanism. Examples are a safety edge detection system on the door rail or a servo-driven door with implemented crush control.
๐ We dedicate plenty of time to safety during the design of our products. You can educate yourself on our website or in the safety manual that comes along with every Coby.
๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ, ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐. ๐ช๐ฒโ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐.
