Robotic Machining System for Milling Small Engine Cylinder Heads

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FANUC America’s Automated Systems Group designs, builds, and programs fully automated turn key systems for a number of FANUC’s customers. This talented group integrates robots, machine tools, lifts and conveyor systems into factories and manufacturing facilities every day. The following system was engineered and built to machine cylinder heads for small engines.
The cylinder head machining system includes three FANUC five-axis ROBODRILL CNC milling machines, two washer units, a press and a CNC all tended by two FANUC M-20iA robots mounted to an overhead rail gantry. This was accomplished in under 30 weeks within a small footprint on the customers manufacturing floor. The FANUC ROBODRILL is a very cost effective machine that produces parts at a very high rate of speed and is smaller than most other machines resulting in reduced floor space. When coupled with load/unload automation using FANUC robots the throughput increases due to faster cycles and the elimination of the inefficiencies inherent in manual machine tending. The system’s process starts as the FANUC robot picks a cylinder head from an infeed shuttle. The robot loads and unloads parts to three FANUC ROBODRILLs, each with a different operation. The robot then loads and unloads the OP40 washer, OP50 guide press, OP60 Machine, OP70 washer, and finally the robot places finished parts to an outfeed conveyor.
A QC drawer is used to periodically check parts from the various operations without shutting the line down. A KMM defined inspection frequency will be entered into the HMI for each operation. When the production count reaches the selected value for a particular operation, the robot will pick the finished part from the machine and place it into the QC drawer. When the operator has finished the inspection, he will close the drawer and indicate via the HMI that the part is within specification and ready to go to the next operation. The robot will pick up the inspected part and deliver it to the next operation.
When combined with FANUC’s world-renowned quality, service and support, several ease-of-use features including FANUC Collision Guard, SoftFloat and Dual Check Safety, make this an ideal solution for modular machine tending. Please visit www.fanucameri... today to learn more about FANUC America’s full range of robotic machine tending solutions.

[@agstechnicalsupport]

Especially for US and other Western hemisphere cylinder head machining companies as well as others all over the Word, automation will be critical for competing against their competitors. The cheap labor in Southeast Asia can be rivaled with good automation. Also for safety of workers, robots should be used on high risk tasks. FANUC is definitely a premier manufacturer of such automated smart systems. You can watch more instructive videos as this one clicking on our logo on the left. Thank you for posting !

[@chaddanylak8706]

welcome to the 21s century where peploe complain that robot steal our job, and also complain that their product cost to much,

[@shakeandbake35]

The human inspection component is probably a year from being eliminated by 3D scanners and laser measurements. Honestly, it's probably already been figured out.

[@KeithStrang]

Curious, is there a purpose to the stops and pauses between moves? It seems to be on purpose. Our Fanuc robots never stop!

[@sebastiangeppert7506]

I'd be curious to hear the reasons as well. I could be due to multiple machines working together, one waiting for a response from the other. Even the little fixtures they had to hold the part so the robot grapple could reposition itself looks like it had a sensor. Granted, I have never programmed anything as fancy as this but I think the robot still needs to go to its exact specified position before it runs the next line of code of reading the part position sensor.

[@jordanloveless8647]

They're probably safety stops that are used only for filming purposes. Once the camera went off I'm sure they block deleted(or whatever terminology you prefer) those moves and put that back to full-speed.

[@KeithStrang]

I don’t think they are waiting for sensors. We do that and you can’t even see it unless the sensor hasn’t switched states yet. It has to be for filming purposes. There might even be a paean that turns all positions into fines with pauses, used for demos or vetting out a system. The other possibility is that they have a PLC calling code segments. I think I’ve heard this can happen.

[@CarlsLawl]

it's sequential programming, there are stops because communicating all those devices + security measures (with robotic arms usually are the highest) takes "time". And yes, the signal from the sensor is almost instantaneous but to send it trough all the necessary devices and, for this, reading, "analizing", "acting"... and finally answer that signal. this time is necessary because every movement must be supervised (specially with robotic arms) otherwise awful accidents may happen

[@junkdubious]

It's looks like it machines from cast or previous operations we're done, so it would only be partially machine to complete. If that is so this has been around for a long time.

[@ClickLikeAndSubscribe]

That would depend on acceptable tolerances and types of QC

[@junkdubious]

@@ClickLikeAndSubscribe Sub .001" geometric tolerancing has been around for a long time, and QC/QA has been around since WW2. See Edward Demming's seminal book on statistical controls.

[@ClickLikeAndSubscribe]

@@junkdubious perhaps it would be more convincing with a citation of a modern source that offers post-WW2 level QC by a robot.

[@junkdubious]

@@ClickLikeAndSubscribe Do you really need proof that a robot can perform a quantitative measurement? Grasping and work holding repeatably to an nth degree is what these robots do. So do you think one couldn't make a simple fixture of plug gauges and sensors, but they can make robots? Do you even know what you're talking about?

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@@junkdubious confidence abound. Knowledge not so much. I will just say one thing and leave it at that: cost.

[@weiaungweiaung]

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[@thinhtruongngoc8995]

Who can help me? How can I connect robot fanuc with cnc machine ( Cc link, In out or ...)