Appliances
- Industry: Appliances, HVAC, Metal Fabrication
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
There were a wide variety of panel sizes, weights and configurations. Panel variations include flat sheets that could only be p-icked up with a vacuum end-effector and panels with large round holes that could only be picked up with a gripper end-effector.
- Industry: Appliances, Electronics, HVAC
- Challenge: Electric/White Goods Handling
Placing electric panels in the cabinets was labor intensive, requiring 2 or 3 people to place and secure the panels into the cabinets.
- Industry: Appliances, Food and Beverage, Furniture, Paper
- Challenge: Cardboard Box, Lifting
The end-effector must be mounted above the boxes, but thin enough to fit between an overhead obstruction and the top of the highest box. The operator needs to reach the controls on the end-effector when they are positioning the first bottom layer and top layer.