Helps automate SIM card packaging
Real Digital International, a specialist in digital print communications and a service provider to sectors that include retail, telecommunications, finance and healthcare, has installed a Universal Robot UR10 at its Croydon facility to help with the packaging of mobile phone SIM cards.
As well as automating previously mundane manual operations, the robot, which was supplied by RARUK Automation (R A Rodriguez UK), has allowed the company to repurpose employees to more varied tasks.
Known as ‘co-bots’, lightweight UR robots can work side by side with human workers, safely and effectively. Integral force sensing, set at a pre-determined level, means the robot comes to a halt in the event of contacting a human. The UR10 offers a 10kg payload and reach of 1300mm.
Managing director David Laybourne said: “Installed in March 2016, our new UR10 robot is placing the lid on a completed box of packaged SIM cards, turning it 90° and offering it into the strapping machine where it receives a plastic heat seal security wrap. After exiting on a conveyor, the robot will pick and place the box in the correct place on the pallet."
