This month’s blog post focuses on our Powered Roller Conveyors. These plug-and-play conveyors transport containers, totes, and boxes with precision and efficiency in straight, curved and 90-degree directions and are ideal for zero-pressure accumulation. You can also control each zone separately.
There are several options to choose from:
Topics: Industrial Automation, Aluminum Extrusion, Robotunits, Conveyors
Let's explore the details and benefits of the Belt Conveyors. This system comes with your choice of belt types, drive options, position, speed and more. Each conveyor also can include a stand, flexible side guides and other accessories as needed. You can also integrate these conveyors into our Modular Automation System, saving you cost and valuable design and assembly time. Let’s take a look at some of the other features of our Belt Conveyors, including the ways this customizable series can benefit your conveying application.
A Just-in-Time Conveyor System
If you need to get a conveying system up and running quickly, then our Belt Conveyors will get the job done. This series comes with a wide selection of dimensions, belt features, belt speed and drive options, making it easy to configure a system according to your unique application requirements. Choose from frame heights of 40, 50 and 80 millimeters, as well as frame widths of 40 to 1,200 millimeters. Depending on the model you select, our Belt Conveyors can also handle loads up to 800 kilograms, with additional lengths, widths and payload capacity available upon request.
Topics: Aluminum Extrusion, Robotunits, Conveyors
Karakuri ningyo (からくり人形) are traditional Japanese automated puppets with origins dating back to the 7th century. Eventually, they gained widespread popularity around 17th century Edo period in Japan, when a theater opened in Osaka with Karakuri puppets on stage. These dolls relied solely on mechanical components such as springs or cams and clever engineering techniques to produce life-like movements, such as a tea serving doll or an archer doll which loads an arrow in his bow and shoots them one by one. Fast forward to present day 2020, and we live in an age where programmable logic controllers enable precise control sequences in millisecond increments, and 6-axis robots configure a completely automated production line. We now integrate sophisticated electronic controls to fulfill our industrial automation requirements.
However, there are still industrial automation processes that can be done by a fully mechanical, “Karakuri” type system. These systems would require no electricity, which could help achieve a green manufacturing target that may be required in a plant. Having no electronic controls also means lower cost, making integration of this type of automation affordable in situations where cost is a key
Topics: Industrial Automation, Aluminum Extrusion, Robotunits, Conveyors
The Powered Roller Conveyor System from Robotunits is a multi-faceted system that handles product transportation suited to your individual needs. It is designed for immediate use with any orientation or application, and can be combined with all products of the Robotunits Modular Automation System.
Special highlight: The integrated guarding block for Poly-V belts is an integrated part of the roller design and can be assembled without tools.
| Facts | Benefits |
| Fully integrated control units | Plug & Play installation |
| Fully compatible in the Modular Automation System | Accessible T-slots for attachments |
| Power transmission with Poly-V belts | No additional guarding needed |
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Topics: Industrial Automation, Aluminum Extrusion, Robotunits, Conveyors
In previous posts, we’ve discussed the strength and efficiency of extruded aluminum framing for mounting robots and other manufacturing equipment. We noted its strength when it came to bearing weight, but there’s another aspect to consider as well.
Several months ago we were at a trade show and saw a Robotunits aluminum frame in use. Representatives from ABB had set up a demonstration of their FlexPicker robot on the exhibition floor, and they relied on a Robotunits aluminum frame for the display. See the video we shot below:
Topics: Industrial Automation, Aluminum Extrusion
