The injection molding industry features fast production cycles, high-temperature environments, and stringent requirements for product surface quality. Manual operation is not only inefficient but also poses safety risks. Gantry robots, with their superior performance of speed, accuracy, and stability, have become the standard configuration for automation in modern injection molding workshops.
Advantage of gantry robot in the injection molding industry:
High-Speed Response, Matching Injection Cycles:
Injection molding machines have limited mold opening time, requiring robots to quickly complete part retrieval. Gantry robots employ a low-inertia design and optimized dynamic model mechanical structure. Three-axis linkage achieves extremely high acceleration and deceleration performance, ensuring entry into the mold and removal of the product in the shortest possible time, perfectly matching or even shortening the injection cycle and maximizing production efficiency.
Precise Positioning, Protecting Molds and Products:
Molds are expensive, and even slight collisions can cause significant damage. Gantry robots have high repeatability (typically within ±0.1mm), enabling precise entry into narrow mold cavities, gentle removal of products, and precise insertion operations, placing metal parts or inserts into specific positions within the mold, effectively protecting both the mold and the product.
Coping with High Temperatures and Complex Motions:
Key components are designed with heat resistance to address the high-temperature environment near injection molding machines. Furthermore, its multi-degree-of-freedom capability (compatible with three-axis or four-axis configurations) allows it to perform not only simple part-picking actions but also complex motion sequences, such as mid-air flipping, vibration demolding, transfer between conveyor belts and cooling racks, and even sorting different products from multi-cavity molds.
Reliable Hardware and Easy Maintenance:
In dusty and high-temperature environments, the modular mechanical design of the gantry robot significantly reduces the failure rate, making daily maintenance simple and quick.
