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News Release from: Sandretto UK | Subject: Dal Maschio 3E 2500 Gold Robot
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 June 2003
Robots purpose-built to serve injection
moulders
Purpose-built for plastics injection moulding machines with locking forces of 8200 -18000kN, a robot offers a high level of positional repeatability with minimal vibration.
Leading supplier of injection moulding machinery, Sandretto UK, has added a new top-of-the-range linear robot to its portfolio of plastics ancillary and automation equipment The Dal Maschio-manufactured 3E 2500 Gold Robot is purpose-built for plastics injection moulding machines with locking forces of 820 -1800 tonne
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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'The chief requirement for many of our processing customers is simplicity of programming and operation,' says Chris Whitlam, who heads up Sandretto UK ancillary and automation sales.
'The new Gold robot fulfils that brief exactly.' In constructing the new equipment, Dal Maschio has deployed its proven aluminum extrusion vertical arm.
This offers a high level of rigidity with minimal mass in order to ensure speed and acceleration are not compromised.
The robot comes supplied with pre-set sequences that ensure the most inexperienced operative can program it with minimal training.
Once programmed the robot cycle can be optimised while the robot is in production hence ensuring maximum productivity is achieved.
The robot control system maintenance page has the routine maintenance schedule built in and automatically notifies the technicians when the maintenance is due.
Unique pass words can be set for each operator so that different levels of access can be set and entries made to system by the operator recorded for future reference.
A remote pendant allows the operator to step the robot through the active sequence to a safe place if stopped, due to a fault mid cycle or to check the sequence prior to it being run automatically.
The 3E 2500 Gold Robot now joins the Sandretto UK family of automation and ancillary products.
Sandretto UK has achieved substantial growth in this area over the past two years and continue to grow at an increasing rate.
'It's a distinct advantage,' says Whitlam, 'being able to offer a full suite of automation and ancillary equipment together with the main injection moulding machine.' The Sandretto UK automation and ancillary business is divided fairly evenly between new business and the large constituency of existing Sandretto moulding machine users.
Many of these have come to add a variety of Sandretto UK ancillaries to an existing moulding machine purchase.
Export orders for automation and ancillaries have also been created on the strength of Sandretto UK's one-stop-shop supply.
The list of Sandretto ancillary supplies also includes; conveyors; granulators; hopper loaders; dehumidifying driers; central materials handling; masterbatch dosing units, mould temperature controllers, chillers and airblast cooling systems.
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