As part of a drive to
maximise productivity, a
leading paper manufacturer
has deployed industrial
robots for label application to
its finished products.

However, when the
company’s Flintshire-based
paper mill faced serious
problems with one of the
robots on site, it turned to
KUKA Robots for a solution.

Mark Fisher, project
engineer at KUKA Robotics,
commented: “Being cost
competitive was an obvious
key factor in winning the
contract, but we also offered
better overall value for the
customer together with
excellent customer support
throughout the project”.

KUKA Robots employed
a 3G router solution and
made sure that remote robot
diagnostics are possible via
LogMeIn (a remote control
desktop website). According
to Fisher, the most challen –
ging part of the project was
calculating the arc the robot
had to take relative to the roll
diameter and width sent over
the bus by the PLC.

Optima Control Solutions
was approached by KUKA
Robots and tasked with
program ming, installing and
commissioning the robot.

Stephen Carradice,
Optima’s system design
engineer, says his main tasks
were to engineer and
commission the robot control
software and to arrange
integration between the
existing Siemens S7 PLC and
the new robot controls using
a ProfiBus communications
interface. He had just 12
hours to complete the
installation and successfully
met his deadline.