South Africa is one of 39 countries to benefit from Omron’s worldwide launch of 49 new best-in-class robots in April 2016. The robots are integrated with Omron’s family of sensors, safety components and award-winning NX/NJ series machine automation controllers to simplify the implementation of robots in a production environment.
These flexible and agile new solutions are ideally suited to the local food, beverage, automotive, and high technology industries. Evert Janse Van Vuuren elaborates: “The programming software used for the Adept Robots, Adept Ace, has an integrated setup wizard, to guide the user through the configuration setup. This allows fast, easy and user-friendly configuration for pick and place sequences for many of the application scenarios pertaining to the South African market, including pick and place applications from stationary platforms, belt camera part picking, fixed camera part picking and static pick and place applications. In many applications relating to pick and place, with or without camera or belt tracking, no complex coding is necessary, due to the setup wizard automatic code generator.”
A major benefit of this launch is that it provides industrial robot models that achieve both high-speed performance and reliability. The release of the three robot families – Scara, Delta and Articulated – brings the benefits of the Omron solution to the South African market. All the robots can be controlled by a common integrated development environment, which enables flexible use of robot types in line with required applications.
It also enables comprehensive linkage with control products, such as PLCs, as Omron industrial robot solutions seamlessly link all robots with the machine control environment managed by the Sysmac automation platform. This improves the total throughput of the most demanding production lines, overtaking the limitations of the traditional framework that uses conventional robots.
Omron’s unique combination of software and control architectures addresses problematic factory automation challenges. The common controls, integrated software architecture and development environment meet current and future needs for ease of process design, flexible operation and predictable maintenance. This global launch demonstrates Omron’s ongoing focus on innovative solutions that advance manufacturing and productivity through integration of robots with sensing, control, motion and safety capabilities.
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