Sepro partners with St?ubli to deliver 5- and 6-axis robots for injection moulding

Plastics processors with applications requiring fast, precise multi-axis parts manipulation, now can choose 5- and 6-axis robots that have been configured specifically injection moulding. One product line is the 5X Line featuring a 3-axis Cartesian beam robot equipped with a Staubli 2-axis wrist. Another line is the 6X Visual Line of articulated-arm robots manufactured by Staubli for Sepro. Both units will be controlled by the powerful Visual 3 control from Sepro, which was developed especially for injection moulding and well-known for its simplicity of operation and user-friendliness.  

These new products are made possible through the partnership forged by these two companies to bring improved automation solutions to plastic processors. “For years, injection moulders with complex automation requirements have had to make a difficult choice,” explains Jean-Michel Renaudeau, Managing Director of the company, which is headquartered in La Roche sur Yon, France. “They could choose Cartesian beam robots that were designed for their applications but usually limited to 3 primary axes of motion, or they could select a 6-axis polyarticulated robot designed for general industrial applications. Now, thanks to our partnership with Staubli, they can have the best of both worlds: high-quality multi-axis solutions created with the needs of injection moulders in mind.”  

Sepro and Staubli have been cooperating successfully since 2006, with Sepro integrating the Staubli multi-axis robots when those capabilities were required. Now they have taken that relationship a step further.  The 5X Line features Sepro 3-axis Cartesian beam robots with 2-axis Staubli wrists and the Sepro Visual 3 control. The 5X robots are available in three sizes for injection-moulding machines from 30 to 800 tonnes.  

The 6X Visual Line of robots combines a St?ubli multi-axis robot with the Sepro Visual 3 control to deliver a general-purpose automation solution in five models to serve injection moulding machines from 20 to 4000 tonnes. 

With Visual 3, Sepro’s proprietary and very adaptable control, it is very simple to program a multi-axis robot on an injection-molding machine. Visual controls make it simple and intuitive to create almost any program, even complex cycles requiring path tracking, flaming, part outlining, and so on. Processors who are already familiar with the Visual control platform will find that very little additional training is required to become proficient at programming multi-axis robots for injection moulding. Air Jordan VI 6 Shoes