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Food and drink manufacturing: packaging and bottling equipment
News Release from: TM Robotics (Europe) | Subject: Model TH650 SCARA robots
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2006
Robots pack foodstuffs reliably,
unmanned
Robotic pack line is a fully functional robotic production and packing line designed to demonstrate how foodstuffs may be rapidly processed and packed hygienically and reliably.
TM Robotics, the company with European responsibility for Toshiba Machine's Industrial Robots, is contributing the machines to complete key robotic handling sequences for the Robotic Pack Line at this year's Hanover Messe, Hannover, Germany Two of the company's versatile Model TH650 SCARA robots take sealed plastics boxes of sausages and place them onto preformed cardboard boxes that are then automatically sealed
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Situated within the Robotics World section in Hall 17 at Hanover, the Robotic Pack Line is a fully functional robotic production and packing line designed to demonstrate how foodstuffs may be rapidly processed and packed hygienically and reliably without human contact.
It includes separate metering, packing, sealing and marking systems, coordinated sequentially and culminating in a ready-packed pallet secured for further transport.
Designed to achieve fast cycle times and accurate placements, the TH650 is a high precision 5-axis SCARA robot that will reduce assembly and packing time of small components within high-speed production environments.
Maximum arm length is 650mm (300 + 350mm) and it can carry payloads of up to 10kg, placing them with a repeatable accuracy of +/-0.15mm.
The TH650's user-friendly TS2100 controller allows simultaneous five-axis control, using a built-in PLC.
It has a storage capacity of 6400 points and 12800 steps across up to 256 programs, with up to 70 I/O.
It uses the proprietary Toshiba Machine SCOL programming language (similar to BASIC) and this can be used across the complete Toshiba SCARA and Cartesian robot range. Request a free brochure from TM Robotics (Europe) ...
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