The manipulator is called the earliest industrial robot, which can imitate some of the action functions of the hand and arm, and is used to grab, carry objects or operate tools according to a fixed procedure. In industrial production, it can replace people's heavy labor to realize the mechanization and automation of production, and can operate in a harmful environment to protect personal safety, so we can also call it the "right arm" of the automation industry "!

In the modern production process, the manipulator is widely used in the automatic production line, the development and production of the robot has become a new technology developed rapidly in the high-tech neighborhood, for which a large number of manipulator manufacturing enterprises have grown up. Here's an inventory of the top ten manipulator brands in the world.

Weimeng Manipulator WITTMANN

Since the establishment of WITTMANN Weimeng Group in 1976, in just 30 years, Weimeng Group has become one of the largest suppliers of manipulators and automation systems in the global plastics industry. Wittmann Weimeng Group is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with 10 production bases and more than 40 branches worldwide.

As early as 1985, Wittmann introduced the world's first CNC-controlled manipulator. At the K exhibition in 1992, Wittmann introduced the revolutionary CAN-Bus control technology of manipulator. Five years ago, Wittmann's plastic processing peripheral equipment was complete. In addition to manipulators and automation systems, Weimeng also provides a variety of products such as material drying and conveying systems, mold temperature machines and shredders. Among them, water drainage, manipulators and mold temperature machines all accounted for the first sales rate in European and American markets last year.

At present, Wittmann Weimeng China has a plant area of 5,000 square meters and is located in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. The factory is equipped with CNC large-scale CNC milling machines, machining centers, laser cutting machines, and plasma cutting machines to process the core components of the equipment on site. The parts produced will be completely based on European standards and will ensure first-class quality through quality inspection and testing. It has also set up an automation system department, and automation experts from Austria have provided long-term automation solutions for Chinese customers, such as fixtures, fully automatic component embedding equipment, packing and placing systems, etc.

KUKA manipulator KUKA

KUKA Robotics Co., Ltd. was established in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany in 1995 and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial robots. KUKA Robotics has more than 20 subsidiaries worldwide, most of which are sales and service centers, including: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India and most European countries. The company's name, KUKA, is a combination of the four initials of KellerundKnappichAugsburg and is a registered trademark of all KUKA products.

KUKA was first established in Augsburg in 1898 by JohannJosefKeller and JakobKnappich. Initially focused on indoor and urban lighting. But soon the company was involved in other areas (welding tools and equipment, large containers), and in 1966 the company became the market leader in European municipal vehicles. In 1973 the company developed its first industrial robot called FAMULUS. At that time, KUKA was part of the Quandt Group, and the Quandt family withdrew in 1980. The company becomes a public company. In 1995, Kuka Robotics was established independently from Kuka Welding and Robotics Co., Ltd., which, together with Kuka Welding Equipment Co., Ltd. (later Kuka Systems Co., Ltd.), belongs to Kuka Branch (formerly IWKA Group). Today KUKA is focused on providing advanced automation solutions for industrial processes.

Yushin, a letter-writing manipulator

Youxin Manipulator is affiliated to Japan Youxin Precision Machinery Co., Ltd., which was established in 1973 to promote the rationalization of FA-based machinery and system development, manufacturing and sales of plastic injection molding workshops with manipulators as the center. Its main products are plastic injection molding products take out manipulator, automatic storage device and labor-saving automatic machines. In 1978, on the occasion of the company's fifth anniversary, the first "plastic product removal machine" was successfully launched.

Youxin Machinery has 12 branches in the world, among which the branches in China are Youxin International Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. (China/Taiwan), Youxin Precision Machinery Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (China/Shanghai, Tianjin), Youxin Precision Machinery Trading (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (China/Shenzhen), and a production base in Guangzhou-Guangzhou Youxin Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. (China/Guangzhou).

In 1978, Youxin's first oblique arm type take-out machine was sold; in 1982, the packing storage system "ACS" was sold (since then "ACS" became the general name of the letter storage system) and the oblique arm type take-out machine "HOP series" were sold; in 1983, the servo type take-out machine "YK series" was sold, etc, many new technologies such as the introduction of servo motors and the development of ultra-high-speed take-out machines have been developed. "To create a new price of technological innovation-InnovationNext" as the password, there is a letter precision machine will continue to pursue the evolution of plastic injection molding workshop.

HARMO Manipulator

HARMO Japan is located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, mainly produces high-precision mechanical transmission products, such as mechanical arms. Japan HARMO manipulator is the authoritative brand in the field of automation in Japan, and the industry is also called high-precision servo/step slide. Its mechanical part is relatively simple, the same by the slide rail and the slider, but its body after assembly has a high degree of parallelism and verticality, it can have repeated positioning accuracy of-/ 0.01mm important reason. The control part is the use of closed-loop control, the traditional open-loop control completely subversion, so that the control of the manipulator more humane, higher precision. The mechanical body is equipped with a photoelectric encoder to feed back the movement of the manipulator slider to the controller in real time, and the controller corrects the position of the slider according to the given and received signals, so as to obtain high movement accuracy.

The controller of the manipulator is a programmable logic controller, which Kowey understood as a simplified PLC. It has part of the PLC function, has its own special program interface and programming language, programming language is based on VB language developed by IAI company. So it not only has the programming language is easy to learn, but also can directly control the other electronic control components on the machine.

And the control mode of the manipulator is mainly divided into three kinds, namely, program control, position control and serial communication control. Users can write programs directly in IAI software to achieve the actions you want, or they can move the point position directly by writing the position point, and they can also control the action and position through serial communication with PLC.

The use of the cylinder is not limited to the precise movement of multiple points, but it Kowey very good to complete the precise movement of continuous points, lines, and surfaces, of course, including arc curves, which cannot be achieved by the cylinder. For example, dispensing equipment: use three drive shafts to form a X-Y-ZTABLE to realize the action of points, lines and surfaces in spatial positions. In addition, it can also draw arcs and take curves. It is characterized by fast speed, high precision, and no maintenance of the machine.

Compared with domestic sliding table, the manipulator has more humanized control and lower early development cost. Domestic products generally separate the power part and the control part completely, and realize the position movement through PLC control of the motor. Moreover, when the production needs to be replaced, its shortcomings are exposed. However, the controller of the Harbin-mold manipulator can store 64 different programs (6000-step instructions) to complete the position movement of more than 3000 points. In addition, there is a matching hand-held programmer, which is convenient to modify the position points at any time in production, and can expand the I/O of the controller according to the needs of the whole machine. This is difficult for domestic products.

Star Tower Manipulator STAR

Japan's star tower (STAR) precision machine since its inception in 1964 has a history of more than 40 years, with the purpose of forming automation, labor-saving, in the "extrusion molding automation machine" field to obtain a high market share. Since entering the 21st century, Japan's manufacturing industry has ushered in a more severe era. Major enterprises have gradually expanded their overseas production markets with China as their manufacturing center, and small and medium-sized parts manufacturers are facing corresponding problems such as internationalization of production and international division of labor. To this end, Star Tower Precision Machinery takes Japanese corporate activities as the center, actively establishes an overseas production and sales system, strives to improve the quality of the company's products, and provides motivation and support for major small and medium-sized enterprises.

In 1999, Star Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong) was established. In 2001, Shenzhen Baoan District Shajing Star Precision Machinery Factory was established and Star Precision Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established. In 2006, Xingta Machinery (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. was established. The company is a Japanese manipulator company specializing in the production of take-out manipulator, injection molding machine manipulator and servo manipulator.

Star tower manipulator according to the fixed program to grab, carry objects or handle tools to complete some specific operations. Manipulator can replace people engaged in monotonous, repetitive or heavy manual labor, realize the mechanization and automation of production, instead of manual operation in harmful environment, improve working conditions and ensure personal safety. Its main product series include SP series (rotating side series), CY series (single-axis servo motor cylinder), CS series (upgraded to CZ series), Ix series (five-axis servo motor), Gx series (five-axis servo motor), Zx series (five-axis servo motor), Ux series (five-axis servo motor), Tw series (three-axis servo motor), CZ series (five-axis servo motor), etc.. In addition to Japan's Panasonic YAMAHA manipulator is also more famous.

Elite manipulator APEX

Taiwan Elite Group is a world-class factory of industrial robots, specializing in the production of planetary gear reducers for high-precision servo and industrial robots widely praised by high-tech factories. In addition to nearly 40 agents around the world, it accepts OEM (OEM) to supply 13 industrial robot products of well-known European and American brands. It has become the only professional manufacturer of world-class plastic molding special manipulator that represents Taiwan and European, American and Japanese brands, and has become one of the three largest manipulator suppliers in the world.

Taiwan Elite Technology is a world-class leading manufacturer of industrial robots, planetary gears and reducers for plastic injection machines. It has established a professional reducer production company with accumulated years of industrial management experience and high quality manufacturing technology.

Taiwan's elite technology specializes in producing high-precision planetary gear reducers for servo applications. Its product technical capability has kept pace with that of leading manufacturers in the United States and Germany. It can also support key components needed in aerospace industry, semiconductor equipment, machine tools, automation industry, industrial robots, medical inspection, precision testing instruments and other fields at home and abroad, indirectly raising the domestic industrial standard and pushing Taiwan's high quality precision mechanical component products to the international market. Due to the completion of the new plant, there will be more space and potential for the development of more precision machinery key components for the automation industry in the future.

Tianxing Manipulator alfa-robot

Tianhang Automation Machinery Co., Ltd. was established in Taiwan in 1988, specializing in the production of injection molding special mechanical arms and peripheral automation equipment. It is a large-scale high-tech enterprise integrating product design, manufacturing, sales and service, with an annual sales volume of 15000 mechanical arms.

Since 1994, when the company entered Shenzhen, mainland China, to set up a business office and open the window of the world, in 2001, Dongguan Alfa Automation Machinery Co., Ltd. was built and put into operation in Dalang Town, Dongguan, with a capital of HK $40 million so far. In 2004, Alfa (Suzhou) Automation Technology Co., Ltd. was built and put into operation in Weitang Town of Suzhou, with a capital of US $15 million so far. The two factories mainly produce automatic mechanical arms and related equipment for injection molding machines. They are equipped with complete systems of development, machining, assembly, service and sales, and both have advanced production equipment.

Today, Tianxing has five branches: Taiwan company: Tianxing Automation Machinery Co., Ltd. (registered capital: NT $90 million), Dongguan company: Dongguan Alfa Automation Machinery Co., Ltd. (registered capital: HK $40 million) and Dongguan Jiama Numerical Control Technology Co., Ltd. (registered capital: US $5 million), Suzhou company: Alfa (Suzhou) Automation Technology Co., Ltd. (registered capital: US $15 million) and Suzhou Jiamai Automation Technology Co., Ltd. (registered capital US $15 million).

sepro manipulator

SEPRO Group is a French company with 8 subsidiaries and 40 distributors in Asia, North America, South America and Europe. Its only corporate culture is customer first.

Our 550 employees from 23 countries have a thorough understanding of our customers, automakers, global equipment manufacturers, and regional and local game changers.

Since entering China in 2005, Sepro aims to provide support for international and global major customers, and provide excellent after-sales and training services for our customers. Based in Shanghai, the group has established a perfect customer service system in Asia, including management personnel, regional sales representatives and a technical team composed of several technical support personnel. Sepro China is also the headquarters of Sepro's manipulator in Southeast Asia. Sepro has been present in Asia since 1997 and provides exceptional service to clients in Southeast Asia through its operations center in Malaysia.