Automobile manufacture, packaging, furniture, medical engineering, civil engineering, telecommunications, food industry – the plastics industry develops and produces optimized plastic materials for every conceivable use. With our unique range of shelf- and floor-mounted robots and robot systems, covering all payload categories and robot types, KUKA has long become established on the plastics market: even lighter, even more flexible, even more compact – and specially adapted to the requirements of injection molding, blow molding
or PET processes. And with the KUKA JET series, a system with extremely large and flexible workspaces, automated machine tending and material handling can be performed in the most diverse manufacturing processes.

Whether plastic presses, extruders, or foaming machines, in standard environments or in special situations such as cleanrooms or harsh ambient conditions, KUKA offers you robot models for every task. And integrative customized processes and complete system solutions for every application. Our robots stand out because of their variable mounting options: on the floor, wall or ceiling, or directly on a machine or linear unit. Any offer you a
particular advantage: machine synchronization, with the position sensing system of the machine being continuously coordinated with the robot position, guarantees optimal cycles, reducing wear on the robot arm, and preventing collisions between the mold and the end-effector.

High payload capacities and interaction with other automation processes are standardized properties of KUKA robots. They can be used as cleanroom robots in the manufacture
of medical products and equally well as precision robots in potentially explosive atmospheres or high-accuracy applications.

Talk to our industry specialists at Automatica 2008.