Robot Picker The Kastopick robot separates steel semi-finished products of all kinds

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The Kastopick bar is a robotic singulation system from Kasto that safely practices its craft over nine million measurement points. It handles flat, square and round steel profiles.

Sheets that are neatly stacked on load carriers have long been able to be singled out with a manipulator like the Kastopick sheet. With a chaotic long good cassette, one soon reaches the limits, so says Kasto. Handling unoriented objects is not trivial because their position and orientation are difficult to predict. It requires complex detection and adjustment to be able to grip and place them correctly. Kastp therefore now offers a smart singling system for this task - the Kastopick bar. This robot optimizes the removal of magnetic blank and black material, which works in the new warehouse as well as in existing warehouse systems.

This is how long goods handling works without a teaching process

With this, users can manlessly remove and manipulate different bars from storage cassettes in 3-shift operation. In addition to flat, square and round bars, the system also recognizes and grips round and profile tubes, as already mentioned above. This allows steel processors to comfortably perform several production steps, as Kasto promises. Kastopick bar solves two tasks! First, it picks the long goods and prepares bundles for shipping. Second, it provides single bars for further processing on the sawing machine. The beauty of it is that the system does not require any teach-in from the user.

First, Kastopick bar moves a 3D sensor measuring head over the storage cassette, which can be up to six meters long. This scan generates a 3D point cloud, which an algorithm developed by Kasto processes, according to the further explanation. The software analyzes the data thus obtained and locates the bars as well as possible gripping points for the robots. Only points that would enable the machines to deposit the workpiece without collision would be considered. This means that neither the robots would collide due to the "intelligent" path calculation, nor could the component hit an obstacle on its path. For this, the software predicts the planned movement and optimizes the route to the target position, it says. After that, the process starts over with the next scan.

The robot serves as a link from the warehouse to the saw

The gripping system separates and moves, as mentioned, many different steel formats. The flat, round, and profile materials can also be coated or labelled. In addition, Kastopick bar communicates with the ERP system, as well as the upstream and downstream machines, in order to provide the right workpiece at the right time in the right place, Kasto further explains. It thus links the storage system, the saws, or the strapping units. Additionally, the software optimizes the stack image through single bar manipulation based on the dimensions and scope of the order. Kastopick bar can, for instance, position square material so that it is ideally suited for bundling. In standard execution, the system grips bars of up to 500 kilograms in weight, higher loads are possible on request. Many different grippers are available for individually adapted solutions - depending on the shape of the objects to be moved. Kastopick bar automatically selects the gripper most suitable for the respective task in order to separate and transport the material gently and safely.