Comau has been showcased a brand new robotic work cell that it says can manoeuvre and machine massive elements. The answer known as SmartReach and it was debuted at a current BI-MU commerce present in Italy.

As automotive producers look to extend sustainability and price effectiveness, there’s a rising demand for big structural parts fabricated from light-weight metals that may ship higher gasoline effectivity, battery energy vary and better cost-effectiveness.

That’s the reason, Comau says, the corporate has “enriched its next-generation machining portfolio” with SmartReach Comau.

SmartReach is described by Comau as “a brand new paradigm in enhanced machining productiveness, designed particularly for efficient and environment friendly machining of huge dimension light-weight parts comparable to underbodies, and battery trays made by mega casting or stamping applied sciences”.

It provides that the answer’s distinctive mixture of flexibility, dynamics, stiffness and accuracy, the applying of SmartReach Comau caters to the automotive, aerospace, power, and different industries, the place the 5-axis versatile machining answer of outsized mild materials parts is broadly required.

SmartReach Comau shouldn’t be a standard robotic machining unit, however born as a CNC (Laptop Numerical Management), with its linear X axis, strengthened rotary axes with double encoders and different particularly designed configuration, it is ready to ship high-end CNC degree efficiency which implies the mixture of dynamics, stiffness and precision.

In a single half clamping posture of the half, the agile high-speed spindle can simply attain compound angles and entry any aspect of huge or multifaceted elements with out frequent recourse to angular heads.

On this manner, it’s straightforward to appreciate one-set up machining, the important thing to megacasting and enormous light-weight elements machining (clamping the elements too many occasions will trigger half deformation and lack of tolerance).

In a machining line, by together with all of the machining operations into one station, multi-machine parallel machining can scale back line cease threat resulting from one machine failure.

With its modular construction, the machine may be simply reconfigured into mono, twin spindle or multi spindle configuration, with one body to multi-frame (body extendable with out restrict), to work with completely different configurations of turntable (A axis, B axis single, double tables).

The usual configuration with one body has the stroke of 3000x1890x1000mm, and with this flexibility the machine can adapt to completely different half sizes and completely different manufacturing wants.

Actual 5-axis steady machining with CAD CAM and Programming G Code for machining programing and CT simulation, straightforward for quick mannequin change.

Moreover, the modular construction ensures simpler reconfigurability and easy entry to the put in machine, leading to shorter imply time to restore (MTTR) in comparison with market requirements, thus saving time, cash and sources.

Most upkeep actions may be accomplished at floor degree for main operation security and enhanced ergonomics.

Through the use of MQL or dry machining, SmartReach Comau saves coolant and reduces waste, which helps shield the surroundings.

Due to its particular machine structure, developed in full compliance with Comau’s ESG technique, there’s a lot much less power consumption throughout machining operation, in comparison with conventional vertical or horizontal CNC machines. On this manner the power saving can attain as much as 40 p.c.

Stefania Ferrero, chief advertising and marketing and options portfolio officer at Comanu, says: “SmartReach Comau, which displays our rising give attention to diversification, will enable us to handle necessary markets for which excessive flexibility and excessive precision are non-negotiable.

“Backed by our longstanding historical past of high-end dependable machining answer suppliers, we’ve innovatively advanced each our know-how path and our useful resource competencies to handle what we imagine will turn into a big marketplace for Comau within the subsequent a number of years.”