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Automated Material Handling for Precision Levelers — Vision Guided Loading & Unloading of Levelers

Parts handling from ARKU: the ideal connection between a precision leveler and automated loading and unloading of parts, sheets and plates. All thanks to our state-of-the-art vision robot for automated material handling.
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Various processing steps in the sheet metal and heavy plate industry have become faster and faster. Modern machines, for example, manage certain processes in just a few seconds. Thus, to increase your efficiency, the focus should be on ancillary processes. In general, companies often still rely on employees to load and unload precision levelers manually by hand. This kind of manual work is not only monotonous, but also time-consuming and costly. Furthermore, depending on the weight of the parts, also physically demanding. These qualified employees can be utilized more effectively for other tasks. This is where automated parts handling for loading and unloading can provide maximum efficiency.

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Our Vision Robot brings enables full automation for precision levelers. Equipped with a camera and artificial intelligence (AI), it autonomously recognizes the stacked parts, precisely positions them in the machine, and automates the process of removing and stacking. Dive deeper into its capabilities in our video!

Flexibility for changing Requirements

The required flexibility is one reason why medium-sized sheet metal processors are hesitating with the implementation of an automated parts handling solution. These sheet metal processors handle a wide range of products and part/sheet sizes are constantly changing. A large part of their time savings would be lost, if a robot had to be reprogrammed for every new part.

That is where cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) can be utilized. A vision robot, equipped with a camera, carries out the tasks much more autonomously: it is able to recognize the parts/sheets on the pallet and how they are positioned, select the correct gripper, and then feed the material into the machine.

How does automated parts handling work?

In automated parts handling, a robot takes over human tasks. Depending on the robot’s capabilities, it could take on simple loading or unloading of the machine. It can even handle more complex tasks, including parts position recognition and automatic gripper change, if required.

How do I stay flexible if the parts handling is automated?

The robotic system must be able to sense the surroundings and “think”, so that it is able to handle different parts. A camera is used to capture the surroundings, and for the ability to think, the robot uses artificial intelligence (AI). That lets it recognize the sheet metal parts and heavy plate correctly even if they are not impeccably stacked on the pallet, or if the pallet is not positioned precisely. Artificial intelligence also enables the robot to select the correct gripper for the current parts or sheets. This alleviates employees from programming the robot every time when there is a new material grade / dimensions - an important argument in view of the variety of parts in laser or flame-cut job shops.

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Automated Material Handling for Levelers

Advantages

With robots instead of operators, all steps of the sheet metal and heavy plate processing run fully automated

No complex reprogramming when changing to different parts/materials

All in one process means cutting overhead costs

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Flexibility for changing Requirements

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