Reliability is key

Northern Ireland-based Ryobi Aluminium Casting has built up a significant population of Kawasaki robots over recent years with reliability being key to its continued investment.

Investment in Kawasaki robots began around 2008 with five ZX165U robots handling an automotive engine and transmission aluminium diecasting through the machining process. The 16kg payload robots pick a casting from a buffer conveyor to load and unload seven identical CNC machining centres that process a throughput of 300,000 units per year.

Suited to machine loading applications, the Z Series robot has a horizontal reach of 2.65m and a payload of 165kg.  This reach and capacity has proved to be the optimum for Ryobi’s throughput, allowing it to source the same specification robot for all current and planned future requirements.

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