Robots come with small floor space, but large machining areas. Force-torque controls even allow to cover manual processes such as edge finishing or polishing.
Our solution
Create workflow with the help of industrial robots
Develop individual solutions to substitute manual processes
Add-on systems or special kinematics (e. g. Flexmatik)
Your benefits
Drastic reduction of costs and floor space
More flexible processes thanks to "feeling and seeing" robots
Substitution of manual work such as polishing molds without path planning thanks to force-torque sensor technology
Your Contact
Philipp Burgdorf
Research Assistant Manufacturing Technologies department
By using a mobile robot, material, products and even production tools and parts can be transported. In addition, an AGV enables the loading of machines.
Our solution
Develop mechatronic safety concepts and prototypes
Robot control and integration for tasks with contact to humans and work environment
Use mobile robots as driverless vehicles for complex tasks
Your benefits
Flexible production and cost reduction
Innovative processes for handling intermediate products
Simple automation for repetitive processes or tasks with high loads
In order to accurately replicate high-precision components, the entire process chain from the component for injection molding and the development and manufacturing of high-precision injection molds up to replication must be optimized.
Our solution
Complete development of injection molded parts
Component design and tooling
Determine process parameters
Sampling
Your benefits
Mapping of all development steps for injection molding of high-precision and micro parts – from sample part to series process
Some advantages of micro injection molding: high precision, high quality, environmental friendliness, cost efficiency and all that for smallest dimensions
There is potential in the process parameters specified by machine manufacturers that can be tapped through process understanding, experimental evaluation and process optimization.
Our solution
Analysis of relevant process parameters and their influences on the respective target parameters
For each application, process engineering potentials are exhausted
Identification of significant potentials for optimizing the specific process
Your benefits
Machining time reduced by 80 percent
No negative influence on machining quality
Application to milling, turning, grinding, and electrical discharge machining
Ultra-precision machining of ductile materials is possible by using cryogenic machining processes. The technology is also suitable for medical products.
Our solution
Component is cooled to below -50 °C
Process environment is actively controlled for good machinability of the material
Machining is performed with conventional tools and process parameters
Your benefits
Thermal shrinkage of the workpiece is known and can be compensated
Accuracy can be increased by optimized chip formation
Existing machine technology can be easily retrofitted
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology