...Wei Xia; Sheng‐Rui Yu; Xiao‐Ping Liao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a paint deposition pattern model applied to robotic air spray painting in order to achieve the accuracy and uniformity of paint film thickness on free‐form surface. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...J. Norberto Pires; Heping Chen; Thomas Fuhlbrigge; Xiongzi Li Purpose Paint path planning for industrial robots is critical for uniform paint distribution, process cycle time and material waste, etc. However, paint path planning is still a costly and time‐consuming process. Currently paint path...

..., with emphasis on robots, their application in the plastics industry and end‐of‐arm‐tooling. Robotics Labelling Tool manufacturers Painting Richard Bloss can be contacted at: aa974@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Robots were an important component of the tri‐annual...

...Joe F. Engelberger; Christine Connolly Purpose To present the technical and subsequent commercial developments arising from a large European research project into robotic paint‐spraying of low‐volume, highly variant components. Design/methodology/approach Discusses the economic need for robots...

...Raymond C.W. Sung; Jonathan R. Corney; David P. Towers; Ian Black; Duncan P. Hand; Finlay McPherson; Doug E.R. Clark; Markus S. Gross Purpose Aims to develop a greyscale “painting system” by enabling the physical reproduction of digital texture maps on arbitrary 3D objects selectively exposing...

...Joe F. Engelberger; M. Omar; V. Viti; K. Saito; J. Liu Purpose Aims to introduce a self‐adjusting robotic painting process for automotive fuel containers, capable of predicting the required correction action to avoid further defect production. Design/methodology/approach Presents...

... the greater payload designs with quick exchange units to match the new higher load capacity. Robots Welding Machine loading Painting Assembly While the North America demand for robots may be soft, the enthusiasm of vendors to introduce new innovations could not be higher. The recent...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> ABB Painting Simulation ABB’S RobotStudio software enables cost savings in robot-programming Keywords: ABB, Painting, Simulation Programming costs reduced by up to 30 per cent Product introduction times halved ABB, has...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Painting Cleaning machine Metro Machine agrees to purchase UltraStrip robotic paint removal system Keywords: Painting, Cleaning machine UltraStrip Systems, Inc. has announced that Metro Machine Corporation of Norfolk, VA (“Metro”) has...

... is currently running a "double-day"shift and may soon extend to "round-the-clock" operation. The production line is also likely to be expanded with the addition of two more IRB 5002 paint robots. Additionally, ABB's Integrated Process System actively controls atomizing airflow, fan width and paint flow...

... information, along with a number of video clips illustrating their TouchSense® technology at work. Keywords: Robotics, Painting, Actuators, Internet http://www.immersion.com/ Immersion Corporation http://www.ai.mit.edu/ Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – MIT The Artificial...

...Heping Chen; Weihua Sheng; Ning Xi; Mumin Song; Yifan Chen Automatic trajectory generation for spray painting is highly desirable for today’s automotive manufacturing. Generating paint gun trajectories for free‐form surfaces to satisfy paint thickness requirements is still highly challenging due...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Robot Painting By optimising robot and paint parameters to meet customer application requirements before installation, significant benefits are accrued for the customer – such as a shorter time to production, reduced costs in both time, labour...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Robots Painting Metal coating application without masking Keywords: Robots, Painting AXO-SCINTEX in France launched a new production line for the manufacturing of the Peugeot 206 taillights. Since 1985, this company has been...

... to enhance press brake tending. Another introduction by ABB was the new economical paint robot, IRB 580. New slimmer robots were shown by DENSO. The VSE series six-axis robots are faster and more powerful than other robots in the same class. They feature a 5kg payload ability, reach of 650mm or 850mm...

...Brian Rooks Describes some of the new products at the Surface World exhibition held at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. Three of the mainstream robot vendors supplying painting systems were at the show and each launched a new product. They also displayed a trend to the growth in the coating of plastic...

...David Marshall “With the productivity, quality and paint saving gains we have achieved, coupled to an easy-to-learn programming language, robustness and reliability, I cannot praise ABB paint robots highly enough.” The Rosti plant at Larkhall offers a total moulding process capability to its...

.... “From linear modules and Cartesian robots to Scaras and now six‐axis robots, we offer customers the ability to leverage their expertise with our extensive product line.” © MCB UP Limited 2001 Motor industry Inspection Painting Lasers Welding Robotics The factory automation...

... © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> ABB Robots Painting ABB robots to "man" new Honda plant Keywords ABB, Robots, Painting Honda has specified ABB paint robots for its new European plant at Swindon. The contract is for the supply of 20 paint robots intended for primer...

.... For each patch, robot hand poses are determined to satisfy certain task constraints. In this paper, the approach is applied to two applications: vision sensor planning and spray painting gun path planning. It is our belief that more robot planning applications in manufacturing can benefit from this method...