Deburring of plastic toboggans with a KUKA Robot

A user produces toboggans and child seats made of plastic. After the blow molding process, while the plastic is cooling and shrinking, apertures have to be cut in the toboggans and the backrests of the child seats, and the edges have to be deburred. Using a robot with burr spindles and milling cutters here would have generated toxic fumes, as well as large amounts of dust and dirt. Similarly, a solution using non-rotating cutters was previously not possible, because robots carry out exactly the path motions they were programmed for, without being able to adjust for the variable progress of the shrinking process. The desired automated process therefore had to have a completely new tool.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• KUKA
• Robotics
• Industrial
• Robots
• Plastic
• Toboggans