• Demo highlights include versatile industrial and collaborative robots, software advancements that reduce programming complexity, and a selection of interactive robotic educational systems and training programs.
• ABB has developed over 30 new robot, software digital and educational products and educational tools in the last year, designed to help industrial manufacturers of all sizes increase their operational performance and gain better access to a well-trained workforce.
• ABB helps businesses of all sizes embrace the flexibility afforded by robotics to efficiently adapt production to satisfy their customer’s most pressing needs, especially as reshoring becomes a prominent means to address ongoing supply chain backlogs.
In response to global trade disruptions, supply chain issues and widespread labor shortages, American manufacturers are increasingly turning to automation and robotics to achieve greater flexibility and relocate production closer to home. The role of automation in reshoring and improving productivity in the US also depends on bridging the skills gap in robotics education and better educating and upskilling workers.
Against this dynamic backdrop, ABB has developed over 30 new robot, software, digital and educational products in the last year designed to help industrial manufacturers of all sizes increase their operational performance and gain ready access to a well-trained workforce.
在9月12日至17日在IMTS 2022在芝加哥的麦考密克广场（McCormick Place），ABB将提供北厅最近的机器人创新（展位＃236520），包括多功能工业和协作机器人，以及减少节目和操作复杂性的软件进步。ABB还将在Smartforce学生峰会（North Building，Booth＃215110）上展示各种互动机器人教育工具和培训计划。
“ABB has continually developed cutting-edge products and support programs to help a wide variety of manufacturers and their employees become more productive, resilient, and adaptable. Our IMTS exhibit will showcase a number of these innovations, many of which have opened up robotic automation to a broad group of first-time users,” said Joe Chudy, US General Manager, ABB Robotics. “Now, more than ever, businesses of all sizes need to embrace robotics to efficiently adapt production to satisfy their customer’s most pressing needs. While investment in automation plays a key role in flexibility in operations, equally important is investment in education and vocational training.”
Highlights of ABB’s IMTS exhibit include a GoFa™ collaborative robot equipped for welding; a live 3D printing demo featuring ABB’s 3D Printing PowerPac for ABB’s RobotStudio® simulation and offline programming software; the MiniMAC robotic grinding cell from ABB Value Provider MESH Automation; a vision guided FlexLoader™ machine tool tending cell; and the Cobot FlexTrainer education cell for interactive classroom training.
有关ABB的IMTS 2022展览的更多详细信息：
Main Booth North Hall (#236520)
GoFa Collaborative Robot Welding Cell: Designed to safely work directly and continuously alongside humans and to be very easy to install and use, GoFa helps businesses automate processes involving heavier loads and longer reaches to assist workers with repetitive and ergonomically challenging tasks.
- GOFA将执行互动，实时电弧焊接演示。展位的访问者将能够使用ABB的可自定义的两键直通式编程功能来钉和焊接小零件。通过在所需的焊接路径中移动机器人，游客将创建自己的焊接程序，并观看Gofa在实时焊接中复制该路径。
Additive Manufacturing Cell with the 3D Printing PowerPac: A live 3D printing demo featuring an ABB absolute accuracy IRB 4400 robot equipped with a MDPH2 end-of-arm-tool, the original direct pellet-to-print large-format extruder from Massive Dimension.
- 该演示由最近推出的3D打印PowerPac提供动力，用于ABB的RobotStudio仿真和离线编程软件。新的PowerPAC通过将任何标准的Slicer软件设计转换为ABB的仿真环境和机器人代码，从而消除了耗时的手动编程。这意味着操作员可以在半小时内从CAD设计阶段发展到产品的最终建模。
MiniMAC Grind Robotic Deburring Cell from MESH Automation: MESH Automation, an ABB Robotics Value Provider (system integrator), will be displaying a version of its MiniMAC Grind Deburring featuring an ABB IRB 2600 robot and a multi-tool end-of-arm tooling mounted to the robot, which eliminates the need for tool changes. The “pre-machining” system automatically removes excess material from recently cast metal parts.
FlexLoader Machine Tool Tending Cell: ABB’s next generation of compact, standardized machine tool tending cells include a 6-axis robot ideally suited to the reach and payload requirements of the specific application. FlexLoaders are Ideal for both low and high-volume production, tending vertical lathes, horizontal and vertical machining centers, 5-axis machines and grinders.
- 用户友好的FlexLoader Vision提供了灵活性，可以自动化机器的趋势，从而在降低运营成本的同时，从小到非常大的机床利用率增加了60％。
Smartforce Student Summit (North Building, Booth #215110)
Cobot FlexTrainer Education Cell: Designed for interactive classroom training using the latest ABB programming technology with any of ABB’s collaborative robots, the IMTS demo features the new 6-axis GoFa collaborative robot. With the Cobot FlexTrainer education cell students can easily program ABB cobots via Lead-Through programming and ABB’s new Wizard easy programming software.
The training cell is fenceless, allowing greater interaction between the students and the robot. It features all of the capabilities of ABB’s collaborative robots, including the industry’s most versatile and powerful controller, an ABB FlexPendant, and access to RobotStudio®, ABB’s offline programming software.
AR/VR Station: A Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality station where students and teachers can dive into the virtual world and interact with ABB robots via RobotStudio, ABB’s offline simulation and programming software that we offer to schools for free for educational use.
课程样本和有关智能认证的信息：ABB机器人的STEM教育课程材料的全面展示，旨在弥合教育和行业之间的差距，并支持所有类型的学校的机器人技术。另外，有关智能认证的信息：有关学生和老师如何通过我们的智能STEM计划获得ABB认证的信息。
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