Pick and place: putting packages in a tight corner
When Simmatic was approached by motion control specialist CR Solutions with a request to develop a vacuum pick-up head for a robot-based pick-and-place machine, the application sounded straightforward. The head, mounted on the end of the robot arm, simply had to pick up five small boxes at a time from an infeed conveyor and then, after the arm had moved to the appropriate location, deposit them within a shipping carton. As is so often the case, however, the devil was in the detail, and Simmatic had to overcome multiple challenges on the way to devising a successful solution.
