Plastics Engineering, October 1st, 2007
ABB Robotics
Hall 11 Stand C39
Visitors will be able to literally lead an IRB140 robot by the hand and teach it ally moves they like. The 'lead by hand' technique "allows the user to hold the robot gripper--a command de-energises the robot and it goes limp--and then to move it by hand to demonstrate the required positions for a machine cycle or part processing. ABB will also introduce a unique new service for monitoring and fault finding in robot applications, whereby diagnostics and even predictive machine condition monitoring can be effected over the Internet. Robot controllers communica...
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