FREEFORM BLANK HANDLING
Pick blanks where they lie! Freeform Picking combines Kinemetrix Agile3D™ Robot Guidance and flexible end of arm tooling to pick steel blanks from stacks sitting on unregistered pallets. The Agile 3D Vision System used in this application is optimized for large area picking and is highly tolerant of variations in blank tilt, curve and surface finish.
The AgileArm™ robotic tool automatically reconfigures to match part size and shape. System changeover to a new part is accomplished while the next pallet moves into position.
Key benefits of this system include:
Anything-goes pallet handling accepts a wide variety of pallet types and stack configurations for both destacking and stacking
High throughput while maintaining single-piece flow
Double blank detection at the point of destack with automatic recovery
Destacks 2-piece blanks that arrive in tilted stacks
DESTACKING WITH 3D ROBOT GUIDANCE
Traditional blank feeding equipment runs great if you give it repeatable stacks. But it’s operationally expensive to create perfect stacks of blanks on dimensionally repeatable pallets with straight pins.
What if you didn’t have to?
Kinemetrix Agile3D Robot Guidance can be configured to image large areas. In this application, the system finds stacks of blanks in a 2m x 2m space. The system provides:
Verification of blank part number
Number of stacks
Location of each stack
Height of each stack
The result is a complete removal of the usual constraints.
Expensive precision pin pallets are no longer necessary
Locating a stack precisely on a pallet is not needed
No need to maintain identical stack heights on multi-stack operations
