Touch Sensitive Automation

The KEBA Active Contact Flange combines highly sensitive sensors, actuators, and control technologies for force sensitive positioning. The KEBA Active Contact Flange enables automatic, touch sensitive surface processing – independent of the robot or end of arm tooling device – through a combination of fast and targeted force regulation with detailed QC statistics automatically logged through common interfaces.

The combination of active pneumatics and sensing devices, along with KEBA’s closed-loop control platform, will streamline implementation processes of robotic positioning based on force, dramatically cutting implementation times, while increasing quality and productivity. The reaction time of this product eliminates typical delayed response times when compared to existing technologies, which allow for unparalleled touch sensitive positioning of the tooling.

The KEBA Active Contact Flange offers several key benefits including:

• Universal Application Capability which can be used to simplify and improve many processes, including surface treatment procedures, force sensitive, and complex assembly applications. The touch sensitive handling of the workpiece is vital in automating sanding, polishing, buffing, stripping, cleaning, and deburring procedures, since the device automatically compensates for position and force control.
• Simplified Robotic Integration allows for robotic path programming to be greatly simplified since the flange independently and automatically compensates for positioning to maintain a constant force on the work surface regardless of its contour – within the 100mm stroke envelope of the flange.
• Versatile Implementation Techniques allows the KEBA Active Contact Flange to be used as a stand-alone product solution, or it can be a part of a total KEBA solution for the turnkey control of the complete application. As a stand-alone product, the KEBA Flange package can be employed immediately in a variety of applications. The program logic can be quickly and simply extended in the IEC program language.
• Collision Damage Protection is an added feature that allows the KEBA Active Contact Flange to minimize the risk of workpiece damage due to tool collisions in a highly effective manner. In the case of sudden interference, the system reacts at a great speed and gives way.

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Keba Corp.
Troy, MI
keba.com