Plug and Play Robotics: Reduce design and machining time with Modular Assembly

Special equipment can often take a lot of assembly and machining just to get it out the door. With Modular Assembly, machine tools can be easily built from the ground up, from the end of arm tooling to the machine base. This greatly reduces machine design time and removes the tedious work of creating transition plates and centering sleeves.

Often, when linear slides and grippers arrive at your doorstep, they are far from completion. To make a complete system requires machining time for transition plates, locating pins, centering bars and a tooling base to mount to. This can add days to your build time which may impair your ship time. You also need to allocate engineering time to design the components. Now imagine if there were a system that required no custom engineering, and no custom parts.

This system would easily connect like building blocks everything from the tool base, all the way to the end of arm tooling. All the Modular Assembly systems would use pre-manufactured transition plates, locating pins, and centering bars. This means less custom work, to greatly reduce engineering time. It would also cut back the time needed to get your machine from you to your customer.

With the Gemotec system from Schunk, this is more than possible, it’s a reality. The Modular Assembly system not only provides all the components from the tooling base to the end of arm tooling, it also provides software that performs all the engineering calculations for you, and tells you the component utilization for a particular load. After selecting your individual components, you can combine the components together to find out what transition plates and centering bars are needed for your particular configuration. These tools make it easy for you to design a system from the ground up that has all the components needed for a high tolerance system.