To increase production output and improve profits per part, forward-thinking manufacturers are transforming their laser marking operations with advanced robotic machine tending.
FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving works with Flexxbotics and Universal Robots to help companies achieve the highest throughput and optimal marking quality.
In August, the three companies will host an event to provide insights into the practical applications of robot-assisted laser marking.
Laser marking and engraving is important for unique part identification (UID), compliance, and branding, but capacity constraints and labor shortages can pose serious challenges to throughput.
To increase production output and improve profits per part, forward-thinking manufacturers are transforming their laser marking operations with advanced robotic machine tending.
FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving works with Flexxbotics and Universal Robots to help companies achieve the highest throughput and optimal marking quality.
In August, the three companies will host an event to provide insights into the practical applications of robot-assisted laser marking.
Laser marking is a critical stage in the product value stream in many manufacturing processes. Bottlenecks can cause serious delivery issues and mistakes can make a product unsalable.
By implementing collaborative robotic automation based on lean manufacturing principles, you can improve your laser marking process to maximize throughput, ensure quality and reduce waste.
“Connecting robotic machine tending with FOBA laser marking solutions using Flexxbotics further increases your return on investment,” said Jeffrey A. Kniptash, FOBA sales manager, Americas.
“Flexxbotics robotics-driven manufacturing is enabled with our FOBA laser marking and engraving equipment, enabling autonomous process control to eliminate bottlenecks and ensure continuous operations.”
By utilizing Universal Robots’ collaborative robots equipped with Flexxbotics’ digitization technology, companies operating FOBA’s laser marking and engraving machines can increase the machine-to-human ratio to more than 10:1 and operate safely “unmanned,” the companies said.
The benefits therefore include increased production capacity, highest precision, optimum marking quality and increased profit margins.
Flexxbotics includes communication with FOBA’s integrated camera system, providing vision-based inspection to provide closed-loop feedback to the robot for autonomous process control.
FOBA’s three-stage laser marking process, HELP (Holistic Enhanced Laser Process), includes pre-marking part inspection, automatic mark adjustment and subsequent marking verification, and is coordinated with the robot’s movements.
Flexxbotics uses either the Intelligent Mark Positioning (IMP) or Point and Shoot (P&S) capabilities of its FOBA equipment to precisely align the laser marker on customers’ products, enabling a vision-assisted workflow for unparalleled accuracy.
“The combination of FOBA and Flexxbotics is especially valuable in industries with strict regulatory compliance requirements that demand the highest levels of repeatability, such as medical devices and surgical products, and aerospace, defense and space,” said Tyler Bouchard, co-founder and CEO of Flexxbotics.
“It also offers significant benefits in environments that require fast and accurate processing, such as semiconductor and electronic device manufacturing processes.
“The combination of Flexxbotics and FOBA enables customers to optimize cycle times, expand production capacity and increase profits per part.”
