For over 30 years, the team at Precise Automation has revolutionized the automation industry. Beginning with the development of the PUMA robot, continuing through the founding and growth of Adept Technology and now with the production of the first full line of industrial collaborative robots, motion controllers that can fit in the palm of your hand and vision software that is easy to use and to integrate, the Precise Automation team continues to develop technology that helps you Automate with Ease.
The PP100 is the world's only collaborative Cartesian robot. Its novel mechanical design offers a price below most collaborative robots and lowers the overall costs of table top applications. This lightweight robot is available with 2-axes (XZ) or 3-axes (XYZ) and an optional theta/servo gripper. If your application only requires simple X or Y or Z motions and collaborative operation is important, the PP100 is the perfect solution. The PF3400 is the world's first collaborative four-axis SCARA robot. Its inherently safe design allows the PF3400 to achieve speeds and accelerations much faster than any other collaborative robot while still limiting forces to ISO collaborative robot standards, making the PF3400 the world's fastest/safest robot. There are over 1,000 units of the PreciseFlex Industrial Collaborative family of robots currently operating safely in a variety of workcells all over the world without shielding. These applications include life science/laboratory automation, small parts handling and consumer electronics testing. In addition to the robot satisfying ISO standards, these cells have been evaluated by both internal end-user and OEM safety groups and have been judged to be safe to use without shielding.

HOW DO YOU DETERMINE IF YOUR ROBOT IS TRUELY SAFE?

Since the introduction of industrial robots, Category 3 has been the gold standard in safety. This standard typically requires that an operator not be in the workcell during normal operation and that the robot move very slowly when an operator is teaching the robot.  All Precise collaborative robots satisfy Category 3, but this is not sufficient to qualify them as collaborative robots.  Recently, the ISO/TS 15066 Standard on Collaborative Robots has been developed to define the robot’s maximum safe contact forces if it collides with a person in free space or pins a part of a person against a surface.  Precise collaborative robots were the first (and possibly still the only robots) that have been verified by TUV to exert forces that are within the 15066 guidelines. (Please note that your complete application must be evaluated for safety.) Precise has over 1,000 collaborative robots that have been evaluated by OEM and end user safety groups and have been approved for use without shielding in a variety of different applications including: small parts handling, PCB board testing, consumer electronics and life science.