Abb Ag

Abb France

Renault Automation

Abb Preciflex Systems

Gérard Pinchon

Bernard Negre

Kuno Hug

Wolfgang Waldi

Daniel Bidaud

Sven Soetebier

Gregor Stengel

Pascal Vaumoron

Christian Fontaine

Christian Brachais

Exemplary embodiments are directed to a tooling device which for connecting to a manipulator. The device includes a base unit and at least two manipulator modules each with a first and a second end. At least one degree of freedom in movement is provided between both ends of each manipulator module. The first end is connected with the base unit and a tool interface is provided at the second end. The tool interfaces are each moveable independently of the other relative to the base unit. At least one manipulator module is linearly moveable on its first end relative to the base unit.

Tooling device

The invention concerns a method for handling at least one part in a station for fixing two parts one on the other, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: positioning the parts in a station using a support (); starting the fixing operation; replacing the support with a gripping robot () when the fixing operation has progressed sufficiently to lock the relative positioning of the two parts; mounting new parts in the support when the replacement has been made; and after the parts have been fixed, removing the thus fixed parts from the station using the gripping robot.

Method of handling a workpiece in a workstation

Assembly workshop, in particular for assembling together sheet metal

Process for assembling bodies, particularly for vehicle production lines, of the type adapted to a plurality of models of vehicles and their variants, in which a perfect geometry of a body at a work station is assured by means of a machine module and a structure module; a complete work cycle incorporates a feeding of a body, a distribution and a presentation of geometry tools, an intervention of robots or operators, and an evacuation of the assembled body.

Process and assembly device intended particularly for body production

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Acheres, France

Gérard Pinchon