With the increasingly widespread use of industrial robots, the trend of China's manufacturing industry to a higher degree of automation has been bright, and the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry is on the way. The emergence of collaborative robots means that more intelligent robots will become an important driving force for China's production enterprises to occupy the strategic location of intelligent production in the future.
As a new type of industrial robot, compared with traditional industrial robots, collaborative robots are more completely free from the shackles of protective fences, and are favored by many industry users such as electronics, 3C, car manufacturing, and electrical appliances with their significant advantages of being more intelligent, more anthropomorphic, and collaboratively completing messy operations.
HRC (Human-robotcollaboration) not only completes the human-robot sharing work space and gets rid of the constraints of the original operation, but also the safety of its use cannot be ignored.
From cooperation to collaboration, safety norms and requirements
Whether it is a traditional industrial robot or a collaborative robot, safety considerations must be based on specifications and requirements. However, whether it is an industrial robot or a collaborative robot, the requirements of the relevant safety regulations, directives and specifications are constantly being revised and advanced.
Safety sensing technology builds a safer HRC
Whether used in industrial robots or cobots, safety sensor technology has always played a crucial role – the combination of intelligent, robust and robust sensor technology and safe control systems enables workers to safely engage robot systems and reduce downtime in production.
From touchless safety switches, safety light curtains/light curtains, safety laser scanners, to vision-based 3D safety cameras...... With the continuous development of safety sensor technology, how is the status quo of safety automation in the field of HRC application undergoing changes?
How to build a good HRC security application?
The safe use of robots is actually a system engineering, and corresponding methods need to be adopted at all stages of the robot life cycle. In the meantime, risk analysis is a very crucial step, and it is the source of the safety of the use of advanced robots. In order to complete the safe use of robots, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive risk analysis and risk review from the source. On the basis of risk evaluation, the safety concept is formulated, the system integration plan is developed, and the previous links are re-recognized through safety verification.
In the application of HRC, from risk evaluation, safety concept to the selection of appropriate safety sensors and controllers, so that they meet the requirements of relevant regulations, and reduce the occurrence of accidents as much as possible, this is the perfect innovative value that safety expert Pilz brings to the safe use of HRC.
Pilz has always advocated that "there is no absolutely safe robot, only safe robot use".
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