Today, there is a lot of high-tech in really good scaffolding. At Peri, one of the market and quality leaders in the industry, a total of 18 Yaskawa robots therefore weld and assemble so-called horizontal transoms fully automatically.
For over 50 years, the company has stood for cutting-edge technology, innovative strength and customer proximity in the construction industry. Most recently, the company set up the new “Leitwerk Gerüst” in Günzburg, Bavaria-Swabia, and bundled the entire production for the Peri-up scaffolding technology at this location. More than 100 Motoman robots from Yaskawa have been working reliably in a wide variety of systems at the plant since 2016.
Recently, another 18 new Yaskawa robots were added to a fully automated handling and welding system. The system produces horizontal bars of various lengths fully automatically, from the raw to the finished component, including optical quality/seam control and final palletizing for onward transport. By using several welding stations in parallel, the system can produce more than a thousand bars per shift. The design of the system followed the Peri specifications with optimum use of space.
A total of 18 robots work “hand in hand” in the new system at Peri: six high-precision Motoman MH5LS welding robots, each with a load capacity of 5 kg, and a further twelve MH robots in the daily load range up to 180 kg. The latter take on the various tasks involved in feeding and handling, two of which carry the camera systems for automatic component inspection. The entire system was planned and realized by Yaskawa. It is therefore representative of welding systems of all sizes, as Yaskawa has been producing in Allershausen near Munich for around four decades. The Allershausen site has recently been expanded to include a further hall for system construction with around 10,000 square meters of floor space.
About Yaskawa
With annual sales of 479 billion yen (around 3.7 billion euros at the end of the financial year on February 28, 2022), Yaskawa is a global technology supplier in the fields of robotics, drive and control technology and energy solutions. Founded in Japan in 1915, Yaskawa has remained true to the principle of providing the highest quality products for over 100 years, earning it a world-leading position.
In the process, Yaskawa has evolved from a motor manufacturer first to an automation provider and finally to a solution provider via the Industry 4.0 concept i3-Mechatronics. Yaskawa’s business activities consist of Drives (GA700 frequency inverters), Motion Control (Sigma-7 servo drives and servo motors, machine controls), Robotics (Motoman industrial robots, robot systems), System Engineering (generators and converters) and Information Technology (software-based products). Since 2012, the Yaskawa portfolio has also included control technology, visualization systems and chip solutions from the former VIPA GmbH in Herzogenaurach.
The merger was legally completed in October 2019. The Profichip brand has since been continued at Yaskawa as a separate product division “Profichip Embedded Solutions”. In October 2014, Yaskawa also acquired The Switch Engineering Ltd, a company active in wind, marine and turbo/industrial applications. This makes Yaskawa one of the few companies in the world that can offer components and solutions for almost all industries from a single source. With extensive investment in research and development, the company has produced a large number of inventions, patents and innovations. This technological ambition has led the divisions to a significant market position in various industries, including: Mechanical and plant engineering (packaging machines, pumps/compressors, textile machines, digital printing machines, manufacture of cranes and hoists, systems for semiconductor and electronics production, machines for the extraction and processing of wood, glass, metal, stone/earth) as well as in the elevator industry, in vehicle construction and in assembly and handling technology.
Motoman industrial robots are used, for example, in robot-based welding, laboratory automation, packaging and handling as well as automated painting. Yaskawa Europe GmbH, based in Hattersheim near Frankfurt, is divided into the business units Drives Motion Controls (automation, drive and control technology), Robotics (industrial robots, systems) and Environmental Energy (environmental technology) and serves the markets of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.
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