PreciseFlex Scara Robots Offer a Space Saving Floor Design

Video Transcript:

Michael Norman

Hi, I am Michael Norman, also known as Stormin’ Norman. I am a Automation Controls Engineer with Scott Equipment Company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Today I have Darren Jacobs with Precise Automation (Now PreciseFlex). Welcome, Darren.

Darren Jacobs

Hey, pleasure to be here.

Michael Norman

Glad you can make it in man. All right, thanks. Hey, with all the robots going on in the world today and we know there is a ton of them out there. What sets Precise Automation SCARA robot apart from the six axis robots that people are accustomed to seeing in the industry today?

Darren Jacobs

Well, that is a great question. And I get asked this all the time, right, you can imagine. But traditional six axis robots are pictured here on the right. And then our SCARA design is down there at the left. Now what is different about our SCARA, which is collaborative, vs. industrial SCARA designs are the Z stroke, which is traditionally out in the front correct of a normal SCARA robot. it is only 200 millimeters, right? Twenty maximum. Okay, but as you can see, in the column, here, we have, we can have four hundred millimeters 750 or 1160 millimeters, you get a lot more of Z stroke. So, what that creates for us is what we call a cylindrical working envelope, right? Okay. And the six axis has a spherical working envelope.

So, as you can see right here in the picture, what does that mean? Well for a six-axis robot, it is going to have trouble reaching items at the top of the top the area of a pick. And it is going to have problems at the bottom, right. But if you could look at our setup here, we have the same exact range at the top and the bottom. Now, we are showing in a video here how easy it is to even increase on that and plug in a linear axis. So just plug and play and then tell the robot that it has this axis. But you can see that it can go same reach up and down. And then it can be up to two meters of rail travel. So, it really creates that cylindrical working envelope that a six axis could not even compete against. And that really, I think, is one of our key value propositions that we bring to the table.

Michael Norman

So, I can see where the Z stroke would set yourself apart by being able to go higher and lower

Darren Jacobs

It also adds to the compact footprint. You can see here, it is about 50% of what a traditional six axis would have, since they can kind of work well within that skinny area. That is a big also substantial savings for manufacturers when floorspace is a commodity.

Michael Norman

Floor space gets expensive. So, going with a precise collaborative robot would save floor space as well. And factories out there today are looking for that lean environment and that includes more floor space, it means you have the more room for manufacturing.

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