Hanover Fair 2018New products at the industrial trade fair
'Integrated Industry - Connect & Collaborate' - this is the motto of the world's most important industrial trade fair, Hannover Messe 2018. Computer&AUTOMATION shows an excerpt of the products that can be seen in Hanover in a picture gallery.
Universal Robots uses practical application examples to show how companies can successfully meet challenges such as increasing variant diversity and increasingly flexible batch sizes with the help of versatile, quickly integrated components. Most of the application accessories come from the "Universal Robots+" online ecosystem. This system provides access to grippers, sensors, software and other accessories that can be implemented via plug-and-play. Three UR3 robots will be on display at the trade fair stand, which work together to screw together flashlights, insert a battery and then label the flashlights using a laser. In another application with a UR5 and an ATI force-torque sensor, visitors can see the robot's "perceptive ability" for themselves: the robot arm moves along a line on a plate with a highly corrugated surface. This can be moved by the visitor and the robot continues to follow the specified contour along the uneven structure.