Factory Tour of ADDE – Nov 2021

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Factory Tour of ADDE – Nov 2021

We have a range of interesting projects all coming to completion in our factory. COVID makes it difficult to invite visitors so we made this virtual tour to show you some of the cool projects on our floor. The projects include an automated tray handling system, a complete end of line packing system including case packers and a central palletiser, a donut dough sorting machine, a small footprint case packer, our Zero Footprint (ZFP) Palletiser, and a bin picking system with PickIt Software and Zivid camera.

Solar chip sorting with a UR3e

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Solar chip sorting with a UR3e

This collaborative robot cell is picking high efficiency (triple junction) solar cells from the wafer format and sorting them into trays for the next assembly process. Read more

UR5 robot loading parts

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UR5 robot loading parts

UR5 collaborative robot loading parts onto a conveyor. A great application where a collaborative robot is the ideal solution. Read more

AGVs for pallet movements

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AGVs for pallet movements

ADDE designed and built a central palletiser for AstraZeneca in Sydney that uses autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) for all pallet movements.

A mezzanine was installed to allow the UR10 robots upstairs to palletise while the pallets are finished downstairs.

The system palletises onto cardboard Euro Pallets that are moved on customised tables. It uses Swisslog CarryPick vehicles which lift the tables with their integrated lifting system.

The vehicles navigate using markers on the floor around a fixed path. The system is not ‘people safe’, mainly because of the large industrial robots downstairs, so these marker following vehicle are fit for purpose in this application.

The system has 2 vehicles on the mezzanine and 3 downstairs in the pallet finishing operations all under the control of the master fleet management system.

Palletising with UR10s

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Palletising with UR10s

This central palletiser at AstraZeneca in Sydney uses 7 Universal Robot UR10 robots to palletise products from 12 production lines onto cardboard euro pallets. Read more