Machining system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorYoshihide MAEDA
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Abstract
This machining system includes: an automatic warehouse which receives a workpiece type to be moved to a predetermined supply position, and by which the workpiece of the received workpiece type moves to the supply position; a machine tool; a robot that transfers the workpiece moved to the supply position by the automatic warehouse, to a machine tool side, in order for the workpiece to be machined by the machine tool; and a robot control device that controls the robot, wherein the automatic warehouse stores a hand, the automatic warehouse receives a request for a type of hand to be moved to the supply position and moves the hand corresponding to the received request to the supply position, and the robot control device controls the robot to attach thereto the hand supplied to the supply position.
Claims6
A machining system comprising:
- an automatic warehouse that stores workpieces and moves the stored workpieces to a supply position;
- a warehouse control device that receives a workpiece type to be moved to the supply position, and controls the automatic warehouse to move the workpiece corresponding to the received workpiece type to the supply position;
- a machine tool that machines the workpieces;
- a robot that transfers the workpieces, which are moved to the supply position by the automatic warehouse, to a machine tool side, in order for the workpiece to be machined by the machine tool;
- a control device that controls the robot, wherein
- the automatic warehouse stores a robot fixture which is a tool, a hand, or a hand claw to be attached to a tip of the robot,
- the warehouse control device receives a request for a robot fixture to be moved to the supply position, and controls the automatic warehouse to move the robot fixture corresponding to the received request to the supply position, and
- the control device controls the robot to attach thereto the robot fixture supplied to the supply position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.