Lantek announces collaboration with Euromac
The ongoing pandemic situation has caused severe disruption in the supply chain across nations. However, manufacturing is backbone of the economy and is restarting worldwide. With shortage of labour due to social distancing measures, it is expected that automation, robotics, digitalisation and artificial intelligence will find its way to avoid future disruptions in manufacturing.
Recently, Lantek - specialist in digital transformation of sheet metal and fabrication, has announced a collaboration agreement with the Italian company, Euromac, which is a global supplier of machines for working with sheet metal, including CNC punches, benders and automated sheet metal systems.
The agreement enables control of the sorting cell programmed with the Kuka KR 10, one of the most cutting-edge robots on the market. It uses two punching solutions from Lantek – Lantek Expert PUNCH-PLUS and Lantek Stackmaster, automating the unloading line for parts and their subsequent palletisation and storage.
The Lantek software solutions are responsible for the whole process, which starts with programming the CNC punch. During the punching process, the machine ejects/unloads the parts through a hatch. The parts then pass along a conveyer belt to an AI vision table where a camera detects the orientation of the fallen part.
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