Machine Tending Solution

A cheaper standard solution can often be offered when you have a digital interface on your machine, offering the robot full control of the loading and unloading of the chuck, and control of the door. 

Where we need to work with older machines, or where you have additional requirements to manage the infeed/outfeed, removal of swarf, post-inspection of parts, or hand-offs to another machine, then we can offer a more bespoke solution.

We use a range of off the shelf grippers to pick up your parts. Where space allows inside the machine, we recommend using a dual gripper to exchange the finished part with the next part whilst the robot is inside the machine. Olympus designs bespoke grippers where an off the shelf solution doesn’t exist.  

With our extensive experience, we are able to create a single machine tending program that accommodates a range of parts (parameter-based programming). The parameters can either be passed from an HMI, or entered as you start a batch of products. This removes the need to write a new program for every product you wish to automate.