Large, Complex Automation Systems

Macron Dynamics, an manufacturer of linear actuators and provider of automated motion system engineering designed an automated system for a high volume mail order warehouse. The automated systems uses 9 large gantries to pick orders quickly and accurately to keep product moving out the door. Trays travel around a conveyor loop and the gantries pick and place product in them before sending them off to packaging.

The second systems is used for automotive manufacturing automation. The system moves a 2800 pound robot which manufactures camshafts. Linear actuators move the robot along a length of 48 feet with a repeatability of 1/1000th of an inch.

In another automated sorting systems for a mail order pharmacy, prescriptions are sorted into mailbags for routing and delivery throughout the country.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• mechanics
• automation
• engineering
• linear
• actuators
• gantries
• gantry
• cranes