Case|A "two-way rush" between auto parts and collaborative robots

background

Today we want to talk about Elite customers in East China, the customer is a professional engaged in the development and production of automotive air conditioning actuators, automotive mirror actuators, automotive LED lighting equipment and other auto parts of small and medium-sized enterprises, its business scope covers the world, its main customers are: United States General Motors, Shanghai General Motors, Beijing Hyundai, FAW, Mercedes-Benz, Dongfeng Nissan, etc.

Case|A "two-way rush" between auto parts and collaborative robots

With the expansion of business and the change of industry trends, the company began to undertake more orders in small batches and varieties, and production problems followed. In recent years, the demographic dividend has disappeared, the company has also not avoided the problem of difficult recruitment, and once it comes to the process of precision assembly, the change of personnel, the working status of workers, the methods of novices and masters, etc., will make the product produce certain differences, resulting in the consistency of the product can not be well guaranteed. As a result, the company began to consider using robots to replace manual work.

pain point

The company's workshop environment was relatively complex and the space was relatively saturated, and it was clear that it would not be wise to use an industrial robot that required a safety fence, so the customer quickly set its sights on a cobot that was easy to integrate and did not require a safety fence. In the early days, cobot manufacturers were generally foreign companies, and customers had also purchased several cobots to integrate into the production line. However, due to the high price of imported collaborative robots, although the use effect is good, it has to be shelved due to the high production cost. In recent years, collaborative robots have gradually emerged, and domestic manufacturers have laid out the collaborative robot industry, which has allowed more domestic small and medium-sized enterprises similar to the enterprise to see the opportunity for transformation and upgrading.

solution

In the end, the customer chose to cooperate with Elite Robot, which focuses on the collaborative robot track, and the final solution was set as: using Elite EC63 collaborative robot, with a load of 3kg, a working radius of 624mm, and a repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.03mm. The front lamp actuator on the station is assembled with a pneumatic gripper, and the gripper picks up the pinion from the loading area and installs it inside the headlamp actuator at a certain angle. It requires very stable and high-precision gripping and placement, and Elite cobots do just that!

In addition, collaborative robots can also be capable of flexible production, and can also be quickly deployed in the face of customers' small batches and multi-variety orders. As long as the program is preset, when the product batch is replaced, the new program can be quickly called to debug the robot and then put into the new task, which greatly shortens the changeover time. As a domestic brand, Elite also has a high cost performance, which lowers the threshold for automation for customers, and the return on investment cycle is only 8-12 months.

The customer used the progressive automation mode recommended by Elite, and the company's workshop gradually deepened its understanding of the application characteristics of collaborative robots in the process of advancement, and gradually replaced the workers on the production line with collaborative robots during this period. It is believed that the advantages of "safe, easy-to-use, flexible and efficient" of Elite collaborative robots will provide better automation application solutions for more small and medium-sized enterprises and promote the transformation and upgrading of automation in various industries.

Case|A "two-way rush" between auto parts and collaborative robots

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