Fanuc Corporation

Fujitsu Fanuc Limited

Shinsuke Sakakibara

Hajimu Inaba

Ryo Nihei

Kenichi Toyoda

Hajimu Kishi

Seiichiro Nakashima

Tatsuo Karakama

Haruyuki Ishikawa

Hiroji Nishi

Nobutoshi Torii

Masahiro Morioka

Satoshi Adachi

Takayuki Ito

Hideo Miyashita

Kazutaka Nakayama

Masao Kamiguchi

Kazunori Ban

Kunio Tanaka

Noriaki Neko

Yoshiharu Inaba

Ryuichi Hara

Shigemi Inagaki

Shouta Takizawa

Atsushi Watanabe

Hideo Naito

Kengo Kobayashi

Hatsumi Naruo

Mitsuo Hiraizumi

Seiichiro Nakajima

Tooru Mizuno

Yoshihisa Furukawa

Masao Kita

Yuuichi Kanda

A robotic gripping device includes a base part attached to a tip of a wrist of a robot; finger parts, at least one of which is movably supported on the base part so that the finger parts can move toward and away from each other; and a driving mechanism that drives the finger parts. In at least one of the finger parts, flexibility of at least a gripping surface is switchable.

Robotic gripping device

A production control apparatus includes a workpiece position detection unit, an ID generation unit, an ID notification unit, a data receiving unit, and a storage unit. The data receiving unit receives the unique IDs generated by the ID generation unit and the traceability data (actual production information) when the workpieces for which the unique IDs have been generated are processed, from the manufacturing machines to which the unique IDs have been notified by the ID notification unit. The storage unit records the unique IDs and the traceability data received by the data receiving unit in association with each other.

Production control apparatus for controlling actual production information in production line and production system

A manufacturing data processing system includes a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses, a plurality of data processing devices for processing manufacturing data associated with the plurality of manufacturing apparatuses, a plurality of communication channels for communicating the manufacturing data between the plurality of manufacturing apparatuses and the plurality of data processing devices, and a management device. The management device determines a combination of the data processing device that processes the manufacturing data associated with each of the plurality of manufacturing apparatuses and the communication channel that communicates the associated manufacturing data between each of the plurality of manufacturing apparatuses and the data processing device, based on the communication speed of the communication channel and the data processing capability of each of the plurality of data processing devices.

Manufacturing data processing system having a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses

A manufacturing system comprises plural types of manufacturing apparatuses driven by operation programs of which language specifications differ from each other. The manufacturing system comprises a cell control apparatus which generates the operation program to be executed in the manufacturing apparatus and communication apparatuses which send the operation programs generated by the cell control apparatus to the respective manufacturing apparatuses. A language specification common to the manufacturing apparatuses of which the types differ from each other is predetermined. The cell control apparatus includes a reading part which reads a common program generated based on the common language specification and a conversion part which converts the common program into the operation programs for the respective manufacturing apparatuses.

Manufacturing system for driving plural types of manufacturing apparatuses with program based on common language specification

A cell control system including a communication device for communicating with a manufacturing cell including a plurality of manufacturing machines configured to manufacture a product, an obtaining module for obtaining first manufacturing information in a manufacturing cell unit associated with the manufacture of the product, a first generation module for generating a plurality of pieces of second manufacturing information for the plurality of manufacturing machines, based on the first manufacturing information, a transmission module for transmitting the plurality of pieces of second manufacturing information to the plurality of manufacturing machines, a reception module for receiving manufacturing machine-specific, third manufacturing information corresponding to the second manufacturing information from the plurality of manufacturing machines, a second generation module for generating fourth manufacturing information in the manufacturing cell unit, based on the third manufacturing information from the plurality of manufacturing machines, and an output module for outputting the fourth manufacturing information.

Cell control system, manufacturing system, and control method which control manufacturing cell including plurality of manufacturing machines

A human-robot interactive system in which a robot and a human share an area for performing interactive work, the human-robot interactive system including a force sensor which is set at an end effector attached to a front end of the robot or which is set at the robot and, when a detected value of the force sensor exceeds a predetermined value, is configured to stop the robot or controlling operation of the robot so that a detected value of the force sensor becomes smaller, the system further including a limiter which limits a work area of said human so as to prevent contact by the human with the first robot portion of the robot that is positioned further from the human than a set position of the force sensor during operation even when the robot approaches the human.

Human robot interactive system

A production system in which a human and a robot may simultaneously perform a cooperative task in the same area while ensuring human's safety. A robot is positioned at one side of a working table, and an operator is positioned at the other side of the working table. The reachable area of the operator is limited by the working table. An area of the working table is divided into an area where only the operator may perform a task, an area where only the robot may perform a task, and an area where both the operator and the robot may enter. In a cooperation mode, the maximum movement speed of a component of the robot is limited lower than when the component of the robot is outside the cooperative task area, and, the motion of the robot is limited so that the robot does not enter a robot entry-prohibited area.

Production system having cooperating process area between human and robot

A force-controlling robot having a function of drawing a fitting part from a receiving part. A fitting part held by a robot hand is moved form an approach start position in a set approach direction under speed and force control. When the fitting part comes in contact with a receiving part and a reaction force thereof exceeds a set threshold value, the fitting part is moved under speed and force control with the set target speed and force and in the set inserting/fitting direction so as to perform fitting. If stoppage occurs before the fitting is completed, the fitting part is moved under speed and force control in the set drawing direction and with the set target drawing speed and drawing force, to draw the fitting part from the receiving part. As the drawing operation is automatically performed, restoration is automatically made without manual operation even if stoppage occurs in the fitting operation. Further, assembled parts can be automatically disassembled.

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Komae, Japan

Shinsuke Sakakibara