Industrial Robot: Volume 1 Issue 4

Elminating the HumanTouch

B.R.A. Buckley, J.D. Smith, D.B. Welbourn

Lapping blind bores has until recently defied automation. It has depended on operators deriving information about the process through their fingertips and using the information to…

Performance of a High and Low Level Gate Feed Track Level Controller

A.H. Redford

In the light engineering industries there is an increasing requirement for automatic feeding of parts to automatic machines. These machines are, typically, counting and batching…

Three Million Hours of Robot Field Experience

J.F. Engelberger

Unimate Industrial Robots have accumulated over 3,000,000 hours of operation on the job in a broad range of factory installations. After touching on the kinds of work experience…

The Festo System 1000 Programmable Card Control for a Kaufeldt Robot

B. Jones, W. Klink

The concept of modular standardised control system units is not new. The technique is well established in the solid state electronics field, where it is accepted that ease of…

Industrial Robot Feeds Numerical Controlled MachineTools

B.H. Auer

The industrial robot when associated with a workpiece magazine or conveyor system loading and unloading one or more numerical controlled machine tools opens a new way for…