KUKA Italy opens new application center and showroom

With the new application center in the direct vicinity of its headquarters, KUKA Roboter Italia SpA has opened completely new premises where KUKA can offer customers numerous different robot cells for training purposes, information and advanced technical training.

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The demo cells cover areas of application from the most varied of sectors – from consumer goods and machine control on to programming with Siemens Sinumerik and KUKA Motion Control for non-anthropomorphic kinematic systems and robot-controlled welding.

The opening ceremony in March also presented an opportunity for inaugurating the new KUKA showroom – a facility that provides that extra something for seminars and conferences.

DEMO CELL – LBR IIWA

In this cell, the LBR iiwa robot carries out the assembly of metal and plastic components, thus demonstrating its “adaptive” properties through the use of its integrated sensors in the robot arm and the force feedback signals. The cell is also used to demonstrate how safe interaction between operator and robot can be achieved in a shared workspace – with particular emphasis placed on the extremely high sensitivity of the robot in response to potential collisions.

DEMO CELL – MXAUTOMATION / SIEMENS RUNMYROBOT

In this cell, the KR AGILUS Waterproof small robot demonstrates the handling of workpieces and simulates the loading and unloading of a machine tool. The special feature of this cell is that the robot is programmed directly via the Siemens 840d control module: with the RunMyRobot option, this module makes it possible for operators of the machine to program the robot themselves – without any knowledge of the specific programming language – using intuitively designed operator control elements. In this manner, even KUKA newcomers are immediately comfortable with the system.

DEMO CELL – SAFEOPERATION

In this cell, the KR 90 R3100 EXTRA from the KR QUANTEC family demonstrates the capabilities of theKUKA.SafeOperation option using a 3D laser scanner from SICK. Thanks to the laser scanner, the robot cell can be operated without any safeguard and can be awarded a Category 3 safety certificate. Beyond this, the cell provides a view of the various safety level settings, taking into account the proximity of the operator.

DEMO CELL – KUKA MOTION CONTROL / CONTINUOS KINEMATICS

This cell shows how the KUKA robot controller can also control other motion sequences, including, for example, a station for handling and palletizing objects. Customers even have the option of standardizing the controller and the user interface of the robot so that these can be used not only for KUKA robots but also for any other external kinematic systems.

DEMO CELL – CONSUMER INDUSTRY

This cell is, above all, oriented towards products for the consumer goods sector. Applications in this sector require high-performance robots for Pick&Place tasks as well for palletizing objects. These tasks are all coordinated with a high-speed conveyor and image processing systems for the localization and control of products.

A KR 40 PA robot – a particularly compact, high-performance palletizing robot with four axes – can be directly synchronized with a conveyor using the ConveyorTech option. The robot also features theKUKA VisionTech image processing system, which allows images to be displayed directly on the user interface of the SmartPad and/or on an external monitor as well.