Smart Molding International 2-2020

38 smart_molding international 2/2020 robots C ampetella Robotics Calling! Trade visitors and media representa - tives visited the 45-day open house "Campetella Robotics Calling", which started on October 1, 2020. At the Campetella Robotic Center Srl facilities in Montecassiano, Italy, two special applications attracted the inter - est of trade visitors, also because they are Industry 4.0 compliant. Cup Championship An X-Series Mini-MODULA compact side-entry robot from Campetella is used for IML (In-Mould-Labelling) of plastic yoghurt cups made of polypro - pylene (PP). The robot is equipped with a quick and compact horizontal arm, responsible for very fast label insert - ing and product take-out operations. A tilting axis guarantees a hygienic process which ends with the cups be - ing stacked upside down with their openings on the conveyor belt. An ad - ditional advantage of the Mini-MODU - LA is its extremely small footprint. As if that was not enough, it cooperates with the new X-Series CO1 Cartesian robot. Its electric servo axis is the right hand to move the stacks of cups from the conveyor to a storage box. An Om - ron AMR (autonomous mobile robot) takes care of transporting the boxes to the finished goods warehouse. Full to the warehouse ... empty back to the belt! The entire system is a four-cavity application with a total cycle time of no more than 2.0 seconds. The IMM interlock time is 0.6 seconds only. The two Campetella robots work hand in hand, thereby serving an Arburg All - rounder 570 H hybrid injection mould - ing machine (an IMM with a clamping force of 1800 kN) and the inherent four-cavity mould from Simon, France, An expert of the scene once said: "When times aren't easy, robotizing is safer, no matter the circumstances!” With a certain amount of interpretation this would mean: people should keep their hands off some critical applications - leave them to robots - in the fields of food, electronics, medical device and pharmaceutical technologies, aerospace, etc. Whenever it is hygienically indispensable, dangerous or complicated. Today and in the future, robots are the only workers who handle, complete and finish products more safely, reliably, persistently, sustainably, economically and quickly. Requirements: sensible use and precise programming. Campetella intensifies IML performance with latest robot generation and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) support