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Han­dling and pack­ag­ing by strong robot arms 

Pro­gram robots robustly for han­dling & pack­ag­ing tasks

Solve all your han­dling and pack­ag­ing appli­ca­tions with a sin­gle soft­ware. Our ver­sa­tile pro­gram­ming tem­plates enable your robot to han­dle flex­i­ble mate­ri­als, such as card­boards, iden­tify and local­ize parts using vision sys­tems or pick up parts from stacks, blis­ters or any kind of work piece carriers.

Opti­mize your goods han­dling with the soft­ware ArtiMinds RPS. Using spe­cial pro­gram mod­ules, your robot can han­dle flex­i­ble mate­ri­als such as card­board or card­board boxes, align itself visu­ally or pick up goods from stacks, blis­ters or any work piece car­ri­ers and boxes (bin picking).

In logis­tics appli­ca­tions in par­tic­u­lar, there are often process vari­a­tions and prod­uct tol­er­ances, which have to be com­pen­sated by the robot (i.e. pal­letiz­ing tasks) With the pre­de­fined tem­plates of ArtiMinds RPS, such force-adap­tive robot move­ments can be robustly pro­grammed with­out hav­ing to write a sin­gle line of robot code your­self. In this way, tasks such as tight pal­letiz­ing can be eas­ily auto­mated with robots. If you would like to inte­grate vision sys­tems to detect objects, the vision tem­plates sim­plify programming.

ArtiMinds Robotics - Pick and place with ArtiMinds RPS

You need sup­port in automat­ing an elec­tron­ics assem­bly process? At ArtiMinds you get soft­ware & project sup­port from a sin­gle source!

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Appli­ca­tion exam­ple: Pal­letiz­ing of card­board boxes

Pal­letiz­ing is a com­mon task in logis­tics and mate­r­ial sup­ply. In most cases, the parts that have to be pal­letized are unsorted with­out a defined posi­tion, e.g. in lat­tice boxes. This makes it dif­fi­cult to auto­mate such Pick & Place tasks.

With ArtiMinds +Vision the posi­tion of an object can be cap­tured by a cam­era. Thanks to the inte­grated inter­faces, ArtiMinds RPS processes this data auto­mat­i­cally so that the robot can grip the card­board cor­rectly and precisely.

If the card­boards are trans­ported on a con­veyor belt, for exam­ple, the robot must wait for the cor­re­spond­ing PLC sig­nal before the grip­ping process. Since ArtiMinds RPS sup­ports var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols, this appli­ca­tion can also be eas­ily solved with the software.

Which mod­ules were used to pro­gram this application?

>> ArtiMinds RPS Basic Mod­ule |more

>> ArtiMinds RPS +Vision Mod­ule |more

ArtiMinds Robotics - Robustly Program Robots for Handling & Packaging tasks

Fur­ther appli­ca­tion examples:

  • Machine load­ing
  • Force-con­trolled stacking
  • Tight pal­letiz­ing
  • Unfold­ing of pack­ag­ing material
  • Bin Pick­ing
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You want more? We sup­port you in the robot-based automa­tion of your bin pick­ing application

You want more? We sup­port you in the robot-based automa­tion of your bin pick­ing application

You want to inte­grate new and flex­i­ble automa­tion processes into your work­flows and need e.g. sup­port in the pal­letiz­ing of card­board boxes or grip­ping of unsorted work­pieces? Our Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing team of engi­neers and robotics experts will be happy to advise you and take over tasks such as the pro­to­typ­ing.

ArtiMinds is a leader in the devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive and sophis­ti­cated robot automa­tion solu­tions, whether as a par­tial or over­all con­cept. Our experts will be happy to pro­vide you with advice and sup­port from con­cep­tual design to implementation.
Get in touch – our spe­cial­ists will pro­vide you with com­pre­hen­sive advice and develop an ini­tial con­cept or carry out a fea­si­bil­ity study in close coop­er­a­tion with you.

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Indus­trial exam­ples – short videos of real cus­tomer applications

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Pre­cise Bin Pick­ing Appli­ca­tion using ArtiMinds +Vision Module

ARTIMINDS – YOUR HOLIS­TIC ROBOTICS PARTNER
OUR OFFERING:

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ROBOTICS SOFT­WARE

  • ArtiMinds RPS & LAR: online/offline pro­gram­ming & analysis

  • Broad hard­ware sup­port (robots & peripherals)

  • > 1000 installations

  • Sen­sor Pack­age for force & vision

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ROBOTICS ENGI­NEER­ING

  • Process devel­op­ment, fea­si­bil­ity studies/PoCs and prototyping

  • Project sup­port & engineering

  • Pro­gram­ming

  • Sup­port dur­ing commissioning

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Why ArtiMinds Robotics?

Even in appli­ca­tions with cobots, which are inher­ently eas­ier to pro­gram, the pro­gram logic can quickly become com­plex as soon as sen­sors are inte­grated. Save time, money and human resources with ArtiMinds RPS by also being able to imple­ment sen­sor-based robot appli­ca­tions inde­pen­dently, e.g. to auto­mate the man­ual load­ing of machines.

>>READ THIS CASE STORY OF MANN+HUMMEL: Robot takes over machine loading

High­lights of ArtiMinds RPS for han­dling & packaging:

  • Cus­tom pick & place patterns
  • Easy inte­gra­tion of vision systems
  • Suit­able for rigid and flex­i­ble materials

Decide for a robust, flex­i­ble and afford­able automa­tion solu­tion – choose ArtiMinds. We would be happy to show you the pos­si­bil­i­ties in a short online demo!

ArtiMinds Robotics - Automation solutions for Pick & Place with ArtiMinds RPS
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>>THAT´S WHAT OUR CUS­TOMERS SAY<<

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Kunde ZF

“After the first talks and pre­sen­ta­tions , I knew : This is exactly what we need . The Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite enables us to do uni­ver­sal robot pro­gram­ming at a qual­i­ta­tively higher level.”

ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany

Handling &amp; Packaging

“ArtiMinds has been a great addi­tion to my robotic pro­gram­ming capa­bil­i­ties. I’ve been able to per­form force con­trolled checks and move­ments that I would not have ever been able to with­out the software.”

LIN­COLN ELEC­TRIC, USA

Kunde BSH

“The ArtiMinds tech­nol­ogy itself inte­grates eas­ily into exist­ing work­flows because the gen­er­ated code runs on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot”

B/S/H, Spain

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Despite very flex­i­ble and dif­fer­ent prod­uct vari­ants and quan­ti­ties, Mann+Hummel man­aged to imple­ment a cost-effi­cient automa­tion solu­tion for their 2D Bin Pick­ing appli­ca­tion with ArtiMinds RPS.

Watch the case story video of Mann+Hummel

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Just get in touch. Our appli­ca­tion experts will be happy to advise you on your indi­vid­ual auto­mated robot appli­ca­tion. Make an appoint­ment right now for an online demo and learn how ArtiMinds can help you to imple­ment a flex­i­ble robotic automa­tion project.

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In just a few min­utes, we will show you how to plan, pro­gram, oper­ate, ana­lyze and opti­mize robot appli­ca­tions cost-effi­ciently, intu­itively and eas­ily with ArtiMinds RPS.

The non-bind­ing free online demo is the per­fect way to get a first impres­sion of the soft­ware, the appli­ca­tion port­fo­lio and if it suits your needs.

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