As a partner of end customers, system integrators and machine builders, SCHUNK offers the broadest product spectrum with more than 300 mechatronic standard components for robot and handling solutions – products that are designed to communicate in a network, therefore making them Industry 4.0 compatible. More than 12,000 custom solutions implemented with mechatronic gripping systems impressively emphasize SCHUNK’s pioneering claim in this field. This Industry 4.0 cell demonstrates how a base housing with a pinion and a retaining plat are assembled to create a module.
The Industry 4.0 assembly cell, which has been designed by SCHUNK, together with the software specialist ORBIS, the plant builder Erhardt + Abt, Plusdrei Engineering team, and SIM Automation, impressively shows how Pick & Place units, 3-axis room gantries, robots, and mobile platforms autonomous cooperate during assembly, control, packaging, and transportation, and therefore allow smart production. With every new component, and every priorized order, the cell newly invents the matching choreography. Every individual process step is in detail monitored by sensors, and is reported to the handling system or even the plant control unit and the ERP. The SCHUNK assembly units and handling components and even the system control unit are connected with each other by fieldbus or Ethernet, and build a cyber-physical system. Smart, intelligent SCHUNK grippers, lightweight arms, Pick & Place units, and direct drive linear axis allow a decentralized control on the components level, making a dynamic and flexible process. "The intelligence of handling components is a decisive key on the way to building a smart factory," Dr. Markus Klaiber, TCO of SCHUNK said.
The intelligence of handling components is a decisive key on the way to building a smart factory
SCHUNK offers the broadest product spectrum with more than 300 mechatronic standard components for robot and handling solutions - products that are designed to communicate in a network.
