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On the left, Okuma’s new ORL-R rotary cell robotic, and on the correct, its ORL-D drawer cell robotic. | Supply: Okuma America Corp.
Okuma America Corp. final week introduced the Okuma Robotic Chief, or ORL, collection of automation. It consists of three proprietary merchandise designed to load and unload workpieces from Okuma machines to extend productiveness and operator effectivity, mentioned the corporate.
“Our workforce is worked up to deliver the ORL collection to market and showcase its capabilities at IMTS 2024,” stated Wade Anderson, vp of engineering at Okuma America’s Manufacturing facility Automation Division. “With its compact footprint and straightforward integration course of, an ORL unit can rapidly make an impression for machine retailers of any dimension.”
The Charlotte, N.C.-based company is a division of Okuma Corp., a supplier of pc numeric management (CNC) machine instruments, controls, and automation techniques based in 1898 in Nagoya, Japan. It additionally manufactures CNC controls, drives, motors, encoders, and spindles.
As well as, the company launched the Okuma App Store in 2014, and it has a distribution network and a Partners in Technology (previously Companions in THINC) community for producers within the Americas.
Okuma to unveil three robots at IMTS
On the Worldwide Manufacturing Know-how Present (IMTS) subsequent month in Chicago, the Manufacturing facility Automation Division will present its new ORL product line:
- Okuma Robotic Loader – Drawer (ORL-D): This can be a drawer-style unit with a typical template that may retailer as much as 92 workpieces. The corporate additionally provides an elective template that holds as much as 180 smaller workpieces.
- Okuma Robotic Loader – Rotary (ORL-R): This rotary, disc-style workpiece storage unit has a wide range of template choices that may maintain as much as 166 workpieces.
- Okuma Robotic Loader – Machining Middle (ORL-MC): This storage unit can maintain as much as 288 workpieces. The corporate mentioned its patented MultiGrip workholding permits customers to automate a number of OP10, OP20, and OP30 half numbers in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing.
Okuma mentioned every ORL product has been strategically designed with a compact footprint, requiring solely between 8 and 9 sq. ft. (0.7 to 0.8 sq. m) of ground area. As well as, every product makes use of FANUC industrial robotic arms and grippers, which may maintain a payload of as much as 25 lb. (11.3 kg).
Elements dealing with to be demonstrated
Okuma mentioned it designed these machines to work alongside its present line of merchandise. For instance, it’ll demonstrate its ORL-R robotic with the MULTUS B300II multitasking machine to load and unload elements.
On the identical time, an accompanying collaborative robot will switch the elements from a cart moved by an autonomous cellular robotic (AMR) into one of many unit’s pallet drawers.
Additionally at IMTS, the corporate will pair the ORL-MC with a GENOS M560V0-5AX five-axis vertical machining middle plus an computerized instrument changer (ATC). The unit will load and unload demo elements from the machine onto the ORL pallets.
The ORL-MC may even swap the workholding within the machine based mostly on which reducing operation might be carried out on the half, mentioned Okuma.
