Xiangjing (Shanghai) M&E Technology Co., Ltd Cases

Key Takeaway: Enhancing Spray Painting Quality. AUBO robots offer excellent repeatability and precise spray painting trajectories, ensuring consistent spraying speed and uniform coating thickness. They can initiate the spray gun without any deviation, guaranteeing the desired spray thickness.Improving Spray Painting Efficiency with EoAT robots, there is an increase in product yield and better consistency, reducing the need for manual touch-ups and allowing for on-the-fly modifications of spray parameters without production line stoppages. EoAT robots exhibit high reliability, stable operation, and low failure rates, enabling continuous operation according to production requirements.   Spray painting is a crucial process in product manufacturing as it directly affects the appearance quality and represents a significant component of product value. The spray painting industry is facing a severe labor shortage due to challenging work environments and health hazards to human workers. As a result, more and more manufacturers are adopting robotic automated spray painting systems.   Industry Pain Points Time-consuming and costly: The drawbacks of manual spray painting, such as low efficiency, coating performance, and paint utilization, have become increasingly apparent. With rising labor costs, relying on manual spray painting cannot keep up with the pace of economic development for businesses. High technical barriers leading to labor shortage: Hiring a skilled spray painter requires paying high wages, but the high-risk work environment makes recruitment even more challenging. The spray painting industry is facing a labor shortage, which makes the introduction of automated spray painting a trend. Health hazards in a high-risk environment: Spray paints typically contain hazardous chemicals such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. Volatile organic compounds and dust in the paint significantly impact workers' health, making them susceptible to occupational diseases like pneumoconiosis when exposed to such working environments for extended periods.   AUBO + Eco-partners Collaborative empowerment for industry development AUBO collaborates with eco-partners, integrating industry resources to provide automated spray painting solutions for different industries and customers. These solutions effectively improve coating quality, spray painting efficiency, paint utilization, and reduce labor costs. Enhanced spray painting quality: AUBO robots exhibit excellent trajectory repeatability, precise trajectories, consistent spray painting speed, and uniform coating thickness. They can initiate spray gun operation without deviation, ensuring the specified spray thickness. Improved spray painting efficiency: The yield of quality products increases with good consistency, reducing the need for manual touch-ups. Spray painting parameters can be modified without production stoppages. AUBO robots boast high reliability, stable operation, and low failure rates, enabling continuous operation to meet production demands. Reduced labor and paint costs: Using AUBO robots for spray painting minimizes paint and spray wastage. Compared to traditional spray painting methods, this approach saves on labor assistance, reduces technical requirements, and conserves labor costs.   "Military-grade" explosion-proof protection High safety level with IP65 rating Spray painting work environments are harsh, with paint compositions consisting of chemical substances. Paint mist and other volatile gases produced during spraying are flammable and explosive, making the spray painting site as hazardous as a gas station. As robots require electrical control, improper protection can lead to fires and explosions. Therefore, explosion-proof considerations are paramount when using spray painting robots in enclosed spaces. Generally, robots used in special work environments should have an IP rating of at least 54. However, AUBO's explosion-proof collaborative robots boast a high IP65 protection level, effectively reducing safety risks. To minimize external influences and extend their lifespan, the robots are typically equipped with waterproof and dustproof covers during actual production, ensuring stability and safety during spray painting operations.     "Drag-and-Drop" Operation Lowering the learning curve for fast production How to quickly master the skills of using robots and achieve rapid production is a primary consideration for companies when choosing robot-assisted production. With AUBO robots, users can generate motion paths and intuitively teach spray painting tasks through drag-and-drop programming. By manually guiding the robot to specific positions or moving it along specific trajectories, users can easily teach the robot how to perform spray painting tasks. Additionally, EoAT, in collaboration with eco-partners, provides spray painting application packages, allowing users to control all spray painting parameters and flexibly operate them based on actual application requirements.     Spray painting poses significant hazards, and many factories allocate dedicated work areas for spray painting. These areas usually have limited space, requiring robots to possess high flexibility and freedom of movement while maintaining a compact size. In a spray painting application at a water pump company, manual spray painting resulted in uneven coatings and high defect rates. By using the AUBO i5 collaborative robot for water pump spray painting, the application was quickly set up through drag-and-drop programming. The robot ensured a stable paint output and achieved uniform spraying on all angles and surfaces. Compared to manual spray painting, the defect rate of the products could be close to zero. The robot can adapt to different types of water pumps, improve production efficiency, and automate the process of water pump spray painting.     Increased Production and Efficiency Higher Flexibility and Versatility Spray painting involves significant hazards, leading many factories to allocate dedicated work areas for this process. These areas often have limited space, requiring robots to possess high flexibility and freedom of movement while maintaining a compact size. AUBO collaborative robots occupy only 1m² of space and offer exceptional flexibility. The i-series collaborative robots have different payload capacities ranging from 3kg to 20kg. Each joint supports a ±360° rotation, simulating human hands and enabling spray painting from various angles. They can even handle the precise internal surface spray painting of intricate workpieces. Additionally, the robots can be installed in different ways, such as inverted or side-mounted, to meet diverse customer application demands. In a case study at a plastic product manufacturing company, the harsh working environment and the inefficiency of manual spray painting posed challenges for the business. The company introduced the AUBO i5 collaborative robot, which held the powder spray gun. Utilizing a grid sensor, the robot achieved uniform powder spraying on the products, leading to nearly 100% utilization of the powder coating. With a repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.02mm, the robot accurately positioned and sprayed powder on the components of the workpieces, ensuring higher precision.     Compared to manual powder spraying, automated spraying achieves a rate of over 90%, resulting in a 30% increase in production efficiency and a 30% improvement in product quality. Labor costs are reduced by 50% as one person in this workstation is completely replaced by the robot, achieving the goal of human-robot substitution. Of course, in addition to the mentioned applications, AUBO, in collaboration with its eco-partners, is continuously exploring new application scenarios. With technological advancements, more and more jobs will be replaced by automated equipment, freeing workers from strenuous and harsh work environments. This optimization of production efficiency reduces occupational hazards and provides a more friendly and safe working environment.    

Key Takeaway: Collaborative robots equipped with intelligent cameras are used to capture images for precise positioning, guiding the robotic arms in the assembly and screw locking processes of the back panel. Additionally, before the products are packed, AUBO collaborative robots are employed to install a visual inspection system, ensuring comprehensive quality checks on surface printing and assembly quality. This enables defect-free products to be delivered. AUBO collaborative robots can replace repetitive manual operations, reducing product non-conformance rates and helping elevate the digital and intelligent level in the home appliance industry.   China is the world's largest production base for white goods. With the rising manufacturing costs and increased market competition in the home appliance industry, improving the level of informatization, digitization, and automation in home appliance process equipment and achieving lean production management have become the current focus of the industry.   Customer Pain Points As a leading enterprise in the home appliance industry, our customer faces challenges with a complete washing machine production line, which can require more than a hundred employees for a single shift. Specifically, in the assembly and screw locking processes of the washing machine back panel, there are up to 9 different steps involved. The workstations at these processes have high intensity, repetitive and monotonous tasks, and limited working space. This has led to difficulties in recruitment, increasing labor costs, frequent workforce turnover, and ultimately rising production costs. It also results in issues like incorrect or missed screw tightening, compromising the product quality. Furthermore, with the accelerated pace of product updates and replacements in recent years, there is an increasing demand for small batches, personalization, and customization in home appliances. This leads to a wide variety of product models and short changeover cycles, with mixed production on each line. Ensuring product quality control becomes a significant challenge. To improve production efficiency and facilitate the customer's transition from standardized production to flexible manufacturing, adopting Aibo collaborative robots to create efficient, flexible, and reliable production lines is the perfect solution.   Solution On-site, AUBO collaborative robots equipped with intelligent cameras are used to capture and locate images, guiding the robotic arms for precise positioning in back panel assembly and screw locking tasks. Additionally, before the products are packed, AUBO collaborative robots are employed to install a visual inspection system, ensuring comprehensive quality checks on surface printing and assembly quality. This enables defect-free products to be delivered. AUBO collaborative robots can replace repetitive manual operations, reduce product non-conformance rates, and help elevate the digital and intelligent level in the home appliance industry.     Human-Robot Collaboration Creating Higher Value Together AUBO collaborative robots support level 10 collision detection and sensor safety checks, eliminating the need for safety fences. With a footprint of less than 1 square meter, they can become close 'partners' to employees, working side by side. The collaborative robots handle the back panel assembly and screw locking tasks that require strict adherence to process specifications, while human workers assist in tasks such as reinforcing iron, connecting and disconnecting water pipes, and organizing wires. This achieves true human-robot collaboration. Aibo collaborative robots are safe, reliable, compact, and flexible, saving more floor space in the factory. They can be quickly deployed on existing production lines, saving time and effort. After the deployment of Aibo collaborative robots on-site, continuous production can be achieved 24 hours a day, reducing the workforce by 50% and increasing production capacity by 30%.   Flexible and Diverse Meeting Different Application Needs There are various types of screws used in washing machine back panels, and each workstation has different requirements for torque and reach. The AUBO i-Series collaborative robots have different load capacities ranging from 3kg to 20kg, meeting diverse application needs. Multiple sets of AUBO i5 (5kg payload, 886.5mm working radius) and i10 (10kg payload, 1350mm working radius) collaborative robots are deployed on-site to meet different screw tightening requirements. Moreover, the home appliance industry demands high production efficiency, with higher tempo requirements compared to other industries. The 15-second cycle time of AUBO collaborative robots at each workstation perfectly meets the customer's production requirements.     Ensuring Stable Performance Technological Advancements Enhancing Product Performance By equipping AUBO collaborative robots with vision cameras at the end effectors, it is possible to address positional deviations caused by previous steps in the installation of the washing machine back panel. The robots can reposition the screw holes and achieve precise screw locking. AUBO collaborative robots offer a repeatable positioning accuracy of up to ±0.02mm, ensuring consistent and stable screw locking actions according to unified standards. This guarantees product consistency, with a screw locking success rate of up to 99.8%, effectively resolving issues related to human errors such as missed or incorrect tightening.     The robotics industry is a major breakthrough in China's intelligent manufacturing and an essential path for the future transformation and upgrading of various industries. The white goods industry, characterized by intense competition, typically pursues economies of scale, striving to lower production costs through expanding their operations. Robots serve as enablers in this regard, driving the home appliance industry towards automation, labor-saving processes, unmanned operations, and improved efficiency. By utilizing robotic automation in production, higher output value can be achieved, ultimately enhancing the overall competitiveness of the home appliance manufacturing sector.    

Faced with the ultimate pursuit of efficiency in the warehousing and logistics industry, KUKA China has developed a 3D vision-based robot mixed palletizing and depalletizing application unit.   In today's rapidly developing e-commerce and retail industries, every link in the logistics industry is facing more severe challenges. At the same time, the manual picking and sorting process in large distribution centers faces problems of high labor intensity and low efficiency.   In response to the industry's ultimate pursuit of efficiency and commitment to promoting the ubiquitous existence of industrial robots, KUKA China has developed a 3D vision-based robot mixed palletizing and depalletizing application unit. As different sizes of cartons are transported to the palletizing station by conveyor belts, the robot recognizes and grabs each type of carton, and according to the mixed palletizing requirements, places them on the pallets.     This unit provides an intelligent upgrade solution for the inbound and outbound processes of distribution centers. It integrates industrial robots and 3D industrial cameras, and uses artificial intelligence and 3D vision technology to demonstrate single depalletizing, mixed depalletizing, mixed palletizing, and pallet continuation applications. The upgraded solution has the following advantages:   1 Realized a highly flexible picking process by replacing manual labor with robots as the carrier; 2 Has higher work efficiency compared to manual labor, accelerating the pace of inbound and outbound processes; 3 All points are generated by vision, eliminating the need for manual teaching, and the entire system can be quickly put into operation.         In addition, the solution also supports both online and offline mixed palletizing.   Online mixed palletizing supports mixed palletizing of any incoming order and box size. In the case where the carton specifications and incoming order cannot be obtained in advance, the robot can recognize the position and size of the carton, generate real-time optimal stacking position and motion path, and grab each carton and place it on the pallet.   Offline mixed palletizing calculates the optimal stacking pattern and placement sequence based on principles such as larger boxes first, heavier boxes first, ensuring stacking stability, and fully utilizing pallet space. Users can also set their own stacking calculation conditions. The system will transport the cartons according to the placement sequence, and the robot will complete the palletizing according to the optimal stacking pattern.     This solution is suitable for typical scenarios such as loading of express delivery cages and inbound and outbound processes of logistics warehouses, and has been widely used in industries such as e-commerce, express delivery, and food and beverage. MechaMan's independently developed intelligent mixed palletizing algorithm, together with industrial-grade 3D cameras and industrial robots provided by KUKA, has contributed to improving the efficiency of the logistics industry and reducing labor costs.   Mech-Eye Industrial 3D Camera   MechaMan's high-performance industrial 3D cameras can output high-quality 3D data of many types of objects and are the "soul component" of this robot mixed palletizing and depalletizing application. The diverse camera models are sufficient to meet various needs in different scenarios such as anti-environmental light, high precision, and small volume. The Mech-Eye LSR L and Mech-Eye DEEP cameras selected for this application use lasers to produce structured light, which is suitable for scenes with high requirements for anti-environmental light performance. They have high accuracy, wide field of view, and a maximum working distance of up to 3.5m.   The Robot Multi-tasker: KUKA KR Quantec   If artificial intelligence and 3D cameras are the soul and eyes of the entire solution, then the industrial robot is the most reliable hands and best executor of the solution. The KUKA KR Quantec robot used in the application is not only a strong and stable hand but also a "multi-tasker" in the industrial robot family. The diverse arm spans of KR Quantec models range from 2.7m to 3.5m, covering a payload range from 120kg to 300kg.     In addition to being used for depalletizing and palletizing in the logistics industry, KR Quantec can also be used in scenarios such as mechanical processing, installation, handling, welding, and more. Moreover, when faced with higher protection requirements and harsh environments such as high temperatures and low temperatures, KR Quantec still performs with ease.