Palletiser robot is faster, lighter and more compact
Designed specifically for palletising, Kawasaki Robotic’s RD080N is faster, more compact and lighter than its predecessor and maintains its rigid construction. Duty cycle tests illustrate its high speed by performing 2,800 cycles, with 80kg payloads, of 75mm vertical and 900mm horizontal an average individual cycle time of 1.28 seconds.
For multi-robot environments, typical in busy end of line areas, the RD080N provides a less-crowded solution. Its width at 584mm is claimed by Kawasaki to be class leading while its reach of 2.1m and palletising height up to 3.31m comfortably meets conventional palletising demands.
Although a conventional 4-axis palletiser, the RD080N does have a 5th axis compensation joint which maintains a parallel wrist face. This joint allows ±10° of movement and can be usefully utilised to allow placement of layer cards/separators or tighter packing of products such as ready meals into open containers.
Smoother lines of the new Kawasaki robot further assist the palletising process. All electrics and pneumatics for end of arm tooling are plumbed into the arm reducing the risk of snagging and helping to speed up programming.
Further helping to make the RD080N faster, smoother and easier to integrate is Kawasaki’s latest E-Controller. The E-Controller range offers faster processing, increased memory, higher resolution encoding, increased communications options and additional teach pendant functionality.
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