{"id":2185,"date":"2024-09-04T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mag2go.de\/schunk-de\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:57:22","slug":"automate-but-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/01-24\/automate-but-done-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto\u00admate \u2013 but done right!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A spindle runtime of up to 8,000 hours a year? What many people have only dreamed of until now is currently just within our reach with clever automa\u00adtion. Only Machine Tending makes it possible to fully exploit their poten\u00adtial and opti\u00admize upstream and down\u00adstream processes. It is impor\u00adtant that the automa\u00adtion solu\u00adtion matches the produc\u00adtion envi\u00adron\u00adment. And this is where Markus Michel\u00adberger, Head of Sales Clamping Tech\u00adnology at SCHUNK Mengen, and his colleagues come into play: \u201cWe can offer the right compo\u00adnents for all types of machine tool automa\u00adtion, we are very familiar with appli\u00adca\u00adtions, and we know how produc\u00adtion works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe can offer the right compo\u00adnents and under\u00adstand our customers\u2019 appli\u00adca\u00adtions. This is why they receive compo\u00adnents and exper\u00adtise from a single source.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nMarkus Michel\u00adberger, Head of Sales Clamping Tech\u00adnology at the SCHUNK loca\u00adtion in Mengen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The shortage of skilled workers and increasing times of absence, small batch sizes with high part vari\u00adance and increasing quality require\u00adments as well as time and cost pres\u00adsure are not just recent chal\u00adlenges that contract manu\u00adfac\u00adturers have to face. SCHUNK there\u00adfore began years ago to make its prod\u00aducts fit for the require\u00adments of auto\u00admated machine tool loading and unloading. \u201cTo be successful in the highly compet\u00adi\u00adtive market, customers not only have to make their produc\u00adtion more effec\u00adtive and cost-effi\u00adcient, they also have to create an attrac\u00adtive and healthy working envi\u00adron\u00adment due to the labor market situ\u00ada\u00adtion in order to attract and retain employees in the long term. Automa\u00adtion is the key to this.\u201d Depending on the work\u00adpiece, batch size, produc\u00adtion process and machine, SCHUNK offers five types of automa\u00adtion. \u201cCustomers who decide to auto\u00admate their produc\u00adtion have already taken the most impor\u00adtant step,\u201d explains Markus Michel\u00adberger. \u201cAs your partner for produc\u00adtivity, we support and advise you in putting the possible indi\u00advidual parts together to form a coherent whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work\u00adpiece and pallet automa\u00adtion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The R\u2011C2 from SCHUNK combines the advan\u00adtages of work\u00adpiece and pallet automa\u00adtion. The work\u00adpiece lying in the storage rack is gripped with the R\u2011C2 and is clamped at the same time. The clamping force block with the clamped work\u00adpiece is then loaded into the quick-change pallet system of the machine like a pallet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lean automa\u00adtion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lean automa\u00adtion describes a flex\u00adible and afford\u00adable method of auto\u00admated machine loading by using already avail\u00adable func\u00adtions of the machine tool intel\u00adli\u00adgently. The raw and finished parts tray is located within the travel area of the machine. With the help of a gripper with spindle inter\u00adface, work\u00adpiece handling can thus take place within the machine work\u00adspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pallet automa\u00adtion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pallet automa\u00adtion concept is the right choice for clamping heavy and complex work\u00adpieces and for ensuring high clamping accu\u00adracy require\u00adments. Here, work\u00adpieces are set up on pallets outside the machine and then loaded into the system as a complete package. High clamping force and preci\u00adsion combined with a compact design \u2013 these are the char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtics of the TANDEM3 clamping force blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With work\u00adpiece automa\u00adtion, a machine can be loaded even with raw parts from an external storage system, when unat\u00adtended. After machining, the finished or semi-finished part can be removed from the clamping device and deposited in the storage unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Flex\u00adible Manu\u00adfac\u00adturing System (FMS)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Flex\u00adible manu\u00adfac\u00adturing systems are multi-machine systems for machining work\u00adpieces. The indi\u00advidual machine tools are connected to one another via a connected trans\u00adport and storage system to enable an auto\u00admated mate\u00adrial flow. Tomb\u00adstones from SCHUNK and the versa\u00adtile port\u00adfolio of clamping tools are compo\u00adnents of complete solu\u00adtions that offer perfect machine utiliza\u00adtion with high flex\u00adi\u00adbility.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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More produc\u00adtivity, flex\u00adi\u00adbility and inde\u00adpen\u00addence: Those who rely on automa\u00adtion can gain advan\u00adtages. Machine Tending in partic\u00adular brings momentum to produc\u00adtion. SCHUNK offers not only the neces\u00adsary compo\u00adnents, but also the appli\u00adca\u00adtion exper\u00adtise to inte\u00adgrate them opti\u00admally into any manu\u00adfac\u00adturing processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-01-24","category-trending-topic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluejournal.schunk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}