Fanuc gameboard manufacturing workcell
Author: Jamie Colby
Our Fanuc/conveyor workcell returns for a new project once again; this year the students chose to integrate the robots with the nearby CNC mill. The project’s goal was to manufacture, assemble, and package a portable checkers/chess gameboard set. Here’s the process: 1. The first robot de-palletizes a new gameboard blank and awaits the “done” signal from the CNC mill. 2. Once milling of the current part is complete, the robot swaps out the finished workpiece for the blank one, and the CNC proceeds to machine the new gameboard. 3. The milled board is deposited onto a conveyor shuttle where it passes under the gamepiece loading station. One pair of gamepiece packs are slid into the board’s cavities. 4. The conveyor shuttle is brought to the next robot, which then loads a laminated checkerboard sheet and Lexan cover onto the board, completing the assembly. 5. The final robot removes the assembled gameboard and inserts it inot a packing box. The shuttle is then sent onto the first robot to begin the cycle again. Although the manufacturing process is sequential, all three robots are overseen using a central PLC so their programs are run simultaneously. Theoretically multiple gameboards could be processed at once, if the cycle times weren’t a limit. Note that the actual CNC milling was omitted for the video, to keep the cycle time low for the viewers. The workcell was built around three Fanuc ArcMate 100i robots (aka Fanuc M-6i), Allen Bradley SLC 5/04 PLC, Allen Bradley …
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