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With around 80 employees, Emerson Professional Tools has been developing, manufacturing and assembling pressing tools and pressing jaws for pressing fittings at its Swiss site in Sissach for decades. The company's high-quality products are primarily used for connecting sanitary, water and gas pipes in buildings.
Emerson Uses Space Saving Automation Through Collaborative FANUC Robot
As a leading manufacturer of press tools for building sanitary technology, Emerson Professional Tools AG must manufacture reliably and with process stability. For this reason - and due to the limited space available - the Cobot CRX-10𝑖A/L from FANUC has been used on a lathe since 2021. It has a compact design and increases machine availability to up to 96 percent.
In search of a suitable supplier, Stefan Rüdisühli, who is responsible for the management and further development of the site and therefore also for production, turned to the Swiss FANUC subsidiary. The reasons for this were, on the one hand, decades of good experience with FANUC controllers and, on the other hand, two FANUC robots that were already reliably in use.
As a collaborative robot, the FANUC CRX-10𝑖A/L does not require any elaborate safety devices, which ultimately has a positive effect on its footprint. Fully complying with the safety standards according to ISO 10218-1 its sensitive sensors trigger an immediate safety stop if it touches an obstacle. The anti-trap protection and the soft rubber skin that partially covers the cobot also ensure that the machine operators feel safe and can work in close contact with their robot colleague without fear.
The FANUC cobot unloads finished parts from the Nakamura WTS-150 and removes remnants from the bar feeder. It can even perform an unmanned ghost shift. Thanks to the high process stability, the daily availability of the lathe was increased to up to 96 percent.
Stefan Rüdisühli
Plant Director at Emerson
The installation of the cobot and the initial programming of the tasks to be performed were carried out by experienced technicians from Wick AG. The system house from Küssnacht in Switzerland has been developing automation solutions for small and medium-sized companies for around 20 years.
Guido Lüönd, CTO of Wick AG, is particularly enthusiastic about the ease of installation of the new CRX series: "Thanks to its lightweight, compact design, the FANUC CRX-10𝑖A/L can be easily integrated into any work area or existing systems. We don't need a crane or any other lifting device." The new, particularly compact R-30𝑖B Mini Plus controller also fits in perfectly.
The automation expert is also impressed by the convenient programming options: "The FANUC CRX-10𝑖A/L enables Manual Guided Teaching. This means that the robot can easily be guided by hand to the desired positions, which can be saved on the tablet using the drag & drop function. This way, a new application is programmed in just a few minutes.”
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