The mix of collaborative robotics and in-process digital metrology represents a strategic convergence for the manufacturing trade and factories of the longer term.
On the one hand, collaborative robots make it attainable to automate dealing with and meeting duties flexibly and safely with out the necessity for bodily obstacles and, then again, digital metrology built-in into the method signifies that elements may be measured and checked straight within the manufacturing line with excessive precision.
On this context, Spain’s Tekniker technology centre, member of the Basque Analysis and Expertise Alliance (BRTA) partnership, with intensive experience on this set of applied sciences, will current an answer that brings collectively automation, high-precision measurement and digitalisation in industrial environments on the subsequent version of the Biennial International Machine Tool Exhibition (BIEMH).
The demonstrator, developed in collaboration with Zeiss, Kuka and Schunk, will encompass a robotic system able to mechanically figuring out, amassing, positioning and measuring components with nearly an identical geometries. This robotic measurement permits for high quality management of the components and classification in line with their reference and conformity.
Gorka Kortaberria, director of commercial metrology at Tekniker, says: “The principle differential factor is the mix of a versatile element feed with advances in digital metrology that enable totally automated high quality management, integrating visualisation, dealing with, measurement and classification right into a single system. This method shouldn’t be frequent in industrial environments and is an progressive and superior resolution.”
The answer is especially geared toward superior manufacturing functions in sectors corresponding to automotive, aeronautics, power or precision element manufacturing.
Consolidated applied sciences
The prototype developed by Tekniker combines consolidated industrial applied sciences with in-house developments in integration, robotics, management and machine imaginative and prescient.
To the answer, Zeiss provides its DuraMax measuring system, which is particularly designed for demanding manufacturing environments and gives excessive precision, even in changeable circumstances.
For its half, Kuka brings a 7-axis collaborative robotic arm designed for exact and protected dealing with in environments shared with individuals. And Schunk features a collection of programs that enable components to be secured and dealt with reliably through the measurement course of.
This technological mixture is accomplished with Tekniker’s Good Selecting asset, which makes it attainable to find and manipulate components in unstructured environments.
“Our utility permits the system to find out the place and orientation of components from info obtained by machine imaginative and prescient, after which information the robotic in the direction of the components it must deal with”, provides Eneko Ugalde, director of Clever Autonomous Methods at Tekniker.
Lastly, the centre additionally incorporates its capabilities in plant and course of digitisation by its Good Manufacturing facility Hub software program, highlighting the administration of important knowledge from manufacturing operations and with the ability to be taught from them for subsequent decision-making.
The answer will likely be on show from the 2nd to the sixth of March on the BIEMH 2026 Tekniker stand, situated in pavilion 1, aisle E24.
