Alfa Acciai in Brescia has renewed AlCs trust for rolling mill train TB1 modernization. The installation of a new advanced solution, a robotic island for tagging bundles in the unloading area, designed by Automazioni Industriali Capitanio, will replace the existing manual tagging system. This new supply will be the fourth robotic island application for Alfa Acciai Group, both for bars and coils.The new layout configuration will be equipped with⦁ Anthropomorphous Comau Robot ceiling-mounted⦁ Rockwell control unit for axis and mobile view⦁ End-Effector consists of pneumatic pliers (to pick up the nail) and the welder machine (to weld the nail to the bundle).⦁ Safety access control box and robot control with the Safety PLC⦁ 3D camera vision sensor⦁ QR code reader for readability check and backup⦁ Printer bench equipped with two thermal transfer ZEBRA printers up to 10000 tags⦁ Area protective fencesThe robotic tagging island, and mostly the 3D vision system with state-of-art technology installed on the robot, will drive an advanced and effective identification for the labelling process, reconstructing the scanning area in 1.2 seconds.It is even a crucial step forward in allowing the steelmaker to identify any collisions with protruding or misaligned bars. Moreover, it will be able to detect automatically the best spot on the billet head where the tag support will be welded.In addition, due to its higher flexibility, the welding machine through the appropriate data exchange with the PLC can recall up to 40 different processes for the optimization of the welding current and the melting arc time.
Alfa Acciai in Brescia has renewed AlCs trust for rolling mill train TB1 modernization. The installation of a new advanced solution, a robotic island for tagging bundles in the unloading area, designed by Automazioni Industriali Capitanio, will replace the existing manual tagging system. This new supply will be the fourth robotic island application for Alfa Acciai Group, both for bars and coils.The new layout configuration will be equipped with⦁ Anthropomorphous Comau Robot ceiling-mounted⦁ Rockwell control unit for axis and mobile view⦁ End-Effector consists of pneumatic pliers (to pick up the nail) and the welder machine (to weld the nail to the bundle).⦁ Safety access control box and robot control with the Safety PLC⦁ 3D camera vision sensor⦁ QR code reader for readability check and backup⦁ Printer bench equipped with two thermal transfer ZEBRA printers up to 10000 tags⦁ Area protective fencesThe robotic tagging island, and mostly the 3D vision system with state-of-art technology installed on the robot, will drive an advanced and effective identification for the labelling process, reconstructing the scanning area in 1.2 seconds.It is even a crucial step forward in allowing the steelmaker to identify any collisions with protruding or misaligned bars. Moreover, it will be able to detect automatically the best spot on the billet head where the tag support will be welded.In addition, due to its higher flexibility, the welding machine through the appropriate data exchange with the PLC can recall up to 40 different processes for the optimization of the welding current and the melting arc time.
