Application examples robotic, assembly and material flow

 
 
Robots are becoming ever more important in the drive to optimise production and distribution. New modular concepts and a progressive standardisation mean they can be used in a wide and flexible range of applications.

Sensors are the "senses" of the robot. The growing selection of small yet powerful sensor designs from ifm can solve demanding applications.

Shorter product cycles and higher quality are required from assembly machines. At the same time more and more quality and functional features of the product to be assembled are checked, monitored and documented in process.

Innovative sensors and fixing components from ifm reliably solve applications where space is restricted.

Logistics and production are growing closer together. Material and product handling in the production process increasingly requires cycle and time-oriented material flow.

Due to ifm's vast product and service range the monitoring and control of material flow becomes more efficient, faster and reliable.
Robotics Assembly Material flow
Robotics Assembly Material flow


Robotics
Robot cell to assemble a structural component for a mass-produced vehicle.
Rotary indexing table for the assembly of cable harness plugs.
Zeroing a robot.

Assembly


Fitting a cover onto a plug-in module.
Monitoring of several positions of a gripper for removing plastic parts.
Position monitoring of pneumatic cylinders.
Monitoring the insertion depth.
Position monitoring of assembled parts in a rotary indexing table.
Position monitoring of a workpiece in an assembly line.

Material flow


Motor control in an assembly line.
Position monitoring of a workpiece carrier.
Control of pneumatic stoppers, shunts and cylinders.
Position monitoring for material supply