FANUC SHOWCASES AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE SOLUTIONS AT PROMAT 2023

FANUC America will demonstrate its latest robots, cobots and industrial automation designed for warehousing and logistics at Promat, March 20-23 in Chicago, booth #N7520.

CRX Cobot Demonstrations
FANUC’s expanded series of CRX collaborative robots are extremely robust and can run for eight years without maintenance. Easy-to-use interactive programming enables users to teach points using hand guidance or a Tablet TP with drag-and-drop icons.

The latest CRX cobots complement FANUC’s existing lines of CR and CRX cobots that now total 11 model variations able to handle products from 4 to 35kg.

The cobots will demonstrate various tasks such as order fulfilment, bin transfer and shelving; as well as palletizing and packing.

High-Speed, Vision-Guided Induction/Singulation
A FANUC M-10iD/12 robot equipped with an iRVision 3DV/1600 sensor identifies and picks random packages coming down a chute onto a conveyor and places each item onto an outbound conveyor. Double picks are identified by an iRVision 3DV/600 sensor, and the robot returns duplicate packages to the pick conveyor. Once a single package is on the outbound conveyor it is recirculated and the cycle repeats. This cell demonstrates how automation can effectively induct and singulate products for downstream sortation.

FANUC LR-10iA/10 Robot: Vision-Guided Each Picking
A FANUC LR-10iA/10 robot guided by several 3DV/400 vision sensors mounted over the workcell will pick various combinations of products from four separate totes to demonstrate order fulfilment. When the order tote is completed, it moves to the opposite side of the cell, where an LR Mate 200iD robot picks and places each item back onto the conveyor, sorting them by colour to refill the pick totes.

FANUC M-410iC/110 Palletizing/Depalletizing
The M-410iC/110 robot equipped with FANUC’s PalletTool Turbo software will pick cases from two conveyors and palletize a mixed layer unit load, and then use HandlingTool for depalletizing the product from the pallet back to the two conveyors. The unit loads were created with FANUC’s PalletPRO simulation software and then downloaded directly to the robot via ethernet.