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Robot for fast palletising
With its 2091mm reach, a new fast and flexible medium-payload (40kg) palletising robot from Kuka Automation + Robotics suits a range of manual, time-consuming applications such as order picking and assembly. The four-axis KR40PA robot is lightweight and quick, thanks to its aluminium body and carbon fibre-reinforced plastic main arm. This, coupled with the otpimised dynamic motion from Kuka’s PC-based controller, gives the robot class-leading cycle time capability for typical pick cycles. It can easily be integrated into an existing production line as it is equipped with its own integral power supply harness. It also has working-range monitoring through Kuka’s ‘safe robot’ functionality.
Kuka has also launched two intuitive software programs — PalletTech and DePalletTech — that have been developed to make programming and operator control easy. “This new palletising robot and Pallet-Tech software were developed in conjunction with Kuka’s Robogistics team, a group of robotics experts dedicated to producing the best automated solutions for the logistics and packaging sectors,” said Kuka general sales manager Brett Green. “The new KR40 PA demonstrates how the combination of leading edge robot technology and intuitive software can transform almost any arduous manual task into a high-performance operation.”