Sepro Molding Demo at Plastec West 2020 -Demonstrates Robot/Human Collaboration

Sepro America is demonstrating the potential for collaboration between human workers and robots in Booth 3965 at Plastec West 2020, which is taking place Feb. 11 – 13 at the Convention Center in Anaheim, CA.

The simulated plastics injection-molding cell involves a Sepro Success 11 Cartesian beam robot and a UR5e collaborative robot (cobot) from Universal Robots. The 3-axis industrial Success robot operates in a protective enclosure, where it removes a ‘part’ (actually a USB stick) from a simulated mold. Then it traverses to a small opening in the side of the enclosure where it positions the stick for pick-up by the UR5e running outside the protected area. The cobot then turns and places the stick in a magazine where it can be picked up by human visitors to the booth.

“Cobots are perfectly suited to peripheral operations that require human-machine interactions,” says Jim Healy, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Sepro America, “and these capabilities are increasingly in demand in the plastics industry. By combining Sepro’s experience in plastics molding with the collaborative technologies of Universal Robots we can offer our customers even greater flexibility and performance in these systems.”