A smart robot for exponentially improving panel benders
With a compact and modular layout, perfect integration on both hardware and software sides, and easy robot programming P-Robot defines a new paradigm of the panel bender with robot configuration, maximizing its flexibility and productivity.
Robotization to the future
P-Robot is a new application combining a Salvagnini panel bender with a robot to produce kits, batches, and single parts autonomously. P-Robot is a smart solution: easy to program, easy to use, and able to exponentially improve the flexibility and productivity of Salvagnini panel benders.
Application overview
P-Robot can be applied indifferently to standard P1, PX, P2, or P4 panel benders. P-Robot can feature loading/unloading only, can be equipped with devices for automatic movement of the pallets, or can provide third-party integrations – for example with work centers for labeling, laser marking, riveting, welding, and corner forming.
The panel bender uses universal bending tools which automatically adapt in-cycle to the panel geometry, without machine down times or manual retooling, allowing batch-one or kit productions.
The MOVE software acquires the panel bending program, generating automatically the robot trajectories. The operator will simply need to confirm or, if necessary, modify a small number of checking positions to complete the programming of the robot.
P-Robot extends the flexibility and productivity of Salvagnini panel benders because it allows the best strategy to be chosen, based on the current production needs.
P-Robot naturally works in R2R (robot to robot) mode, loading, unloading and, if necessary, stacking the parts. But the same P-Robot can work in different modes, seamlessly and without re-tooling. In R2H (robot to human) mode, it is responsible solely for loading the flat part, whereas the operator is responsible for unloading the panel. In H2R (human to robot) mode, it is the operator who will load the flat part onto the working area, and the robot will unload the panel at the end of the cycle. The panel bender remains also available for any work managed completely by the operator.
RVS option
The RVS (Robot Vision System) option benefits from a unique 3D artificial vision system, the only one of its kind on the market, to further simplify the use of technology, optimize production flows by speeding up intermediate phases of recognition, handling, and programming, and maximize the value of the finished product through the quality control system of produced parts.
P-Robot extends the flexibility and productivity of Salvagnini panel benders because it allows the best strategy to be chosen, based on the current production needs. The same P-Robot can work in different modes, seamlessly and without re-tooling.
Software
Industry has changed: flexibility and efficiency are fundamental requirements for managing increasingly smaller batches or rapid item turnover rate. And developments in technology have in some way upset the balance between workloads, with increasingly fast systems which however need to be guided by more and more specific machine programs, the generation of which is increasingly time-consuming. This is why software is increasingly crucial to improving the efficiency of machinery.
OPS is the Salvagnini modular production management software which optimizes the entire production process, exchanging real-time information between the machinery and the factory ERP/MRP.
Salvagnini’s IoT solution, increases the global efficiency of the panel bender. LINKS allows real-time monitoring of the machine’s performance and independent analysis.