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Cost effective Cartesian
27 October 2014
Technology partners Pacepacker Services and Festo have unveiled a new twin-axis Cartesian style pick and place robot, which is constructed from standard off-the-shelf products to provide a solution that can be much lower in cost than five and six axis robots.

The Cartesian designed by Pacepacker can be re-programmed for a diverse range of tasks and differing packaging sizes, improving the flexibility of the overall solution.
"The system has two axes of movement as standard and is a good typical solution for most pick and place operations where packaged items are placed into distribution packaging, like cardboard boxes, cases, retail trays and trolleys,” explains Paul Wilkinson, Pacepacker’s BDM.
Additional axis can easily be added to create more complex solutions. "One advantage of the modular system is that you can fully mix and match the technologies. If complex motions are needed in X and Y and only up and down movement in Z, then you can opt for two axes of electrical motion and a single Z axis in pneumatic, reducing the cost and increasing simplicity. Motion control can be provided via complex motion co-ordinators, allowing full interpolated path control, right down to point to point pick & place for the simplest and most cost effective solutions.”
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