Revolutionizing Production Lines with OIYA Robotic Systems

Materials Handling

Materials Handling typically refers to the automation of manufacturing lines where a mass produced product is manufactured.

Traditionally the product is picked by an operator and placed on a pallet or stack ready for shipping to the client as the finished product.

As a manual task, the labour required and the inherent WHS risks associated with it make this task attractive to automate. As a robot system integrator this task presents an attractive opportunity to be replaced by an automated system. Firstly it increases the safety of the client’s manufacturing as well as freeing up labour units to be redeployed within the factory to complete other manual tasks.

The dual robot system shown here was setup in our factory to complete the simulated offline testing where we picked and placed the client’s product. This approach avoided any downtime at the client’s site where we were able to quickly install and transition to automation without negatively impacting production.

Screw Pier Tube Processing System

The system is to prepare the tube ready for installation as a screw pier for the construction industry.

Tubes arrive in packs and are processed as follows:

Cut to length – from 1m to 5m
Picked and inserted into the swage machine if used as an extension piece. the swage reduces the outside diameter to allow the tube to be inserted into a another tube
Picked and placed into the drill station. the holes are drilled in both ends of the tube for connection to the excavators hydraulic auger driver, connection of the auger tip or connection to an extension tube
Picked and packed onto a trolley ready for manual strapping

Sizes ranging from 1m to 5m in length and 76mm to 114mm in diameter

Less than 1 minute cycle time per pipe

Automated screw fastening system

As part of a larger system the screw fastening system automatically loads and fastens screw into two pieces of metal

The screwdriver is attached to a 2 axis servo motor controlled linear drive system that positions the screwdriver inline with the hole and then fastens as the two pieces of material together

The screws are automatically fed to the screwdriver by a bowl feeder.

The cycle time to fasten on screw is approximately 3 seconds. Improvements are in progress to reduce this time further.

The bowl feeders and screwdriver are customised off the shelf items manufactured by a German engineering company.

Machinery Upgrade

Upgrade imported pharmaceutical blister pack machine

The machine was imported from Asia however did not conform to local requirements

The machine was upgraded to conform as well as improving the performance and adding additional validation of barcode scanning the leaflets to ensure the correct leaflet is inserted into the carton

Gantry Robot

The gantry robot is part of a steel processing line. The gantry robot picks a beam up off of one chain conveyor and places onto one of two roller conveyors.

The robot comprises of: