Increasingly shorter product life cycles, smaller batch sizes, many variants: there is no question that assembly automation is undergoing a change. The suppliers of systems and components are reacting with pioneering innovations to these changes, as AUTOMATICA will show from June 3 to 6. Leading manufacturers are exhibiting highly flexible, modular solutions at AUTOMATICA. These can be adapted flexibly to production needs, for example, in that linear transfer systems can be expanded to almost any extent, manual workstations replaced by automated ones, or upstream or downstream process steps automated.
"The creativity that manufacturers are putting into their assembly systems is impressive. As a result, users can start with low-cost automation solutions and adapt them step-by-step to increasing output rates if required. These "co-growing" assembly solutions are often the deciding factor for realizing especially innovative products, because they make production possible in the first place thanks to manageable investments," according to Patrick Schwarzkopf, Managing Director of VDMA Robotik + Automation.
Although traditional linear transfer systems are still the first choice when it is a question of optimum flexibility, completely automatic rotary transfers systems are the benchmark in matters of output. At AUTOMATICA, the latest systems of leading companies will break records and amaze trade visitors with capacities of 150 cycles per minute and more. Another novelty: Thanks to intelligent design, rotary transfer systems of the newest generation are considerably superior to their predecessor models not only in performance, but also with respect to flexibility.
