Mobile robot application for small and medium-sized enterprises

LMZ specializes in the construction of special-purpose machines and machining technology. LMZ supports its customers from the automotive, plastics and hygiene industries with robot-based automation. “Robotics is a topic that preoccupies many small and medium-sized enterprises. They would like to automate larger parts of their production using robots. Up to now, however, corresponding solutions have not been flexible and versatile enough,” says Dennis Lenkering, Managing Director of LMZ. This is why Lenkering and his team developed a cost-effective, versatile mobile robot application.

The mobile robot application offers numerous advantages: On the one hand, it is mobile and can be moved quickly from one workstation to the next. On the other hand, the KR AGILUS can be easily converted for various tasks without great effort. For handling various tools, the robot application is equipped with the KUKA software packages KUKA.LoadDataDetermination and KUKA.Gripper&SpotTech. “The various fields of activity reduce downtimes. As a result, there is a very fast return on investment,” explains Lenkering. The flexible robot application takes over pick & place activities as well as the assembly of components. Beyond this, the flexible robot-based application is designed for cooperation with machine tools.

“Production is becoming ever faster and more flexible. With our solution, we are sure that we have provided a suitable answer to this challenge,” says Dennis Lenkering, who, together with his company LMZ, has been a long-standing partner in the item pluspartner expert network. The enormous time savings, in particular, are a key unique selling point of the new development. In a minimum of time, it is possible to convert the flexible robot application for a different product. This enables the robot to be used more frequently and for customers to benefit from higher quality and process reliability. As a result, the robot rarely takes up valuable floor space.