Primus Präzisionstechnik, a manufacturer of special gears, was looking for a solution for a manual production process, in which small gears are made from several individual parts for a customer in the automotive industry, to be automated with robots. In this force-controlled pick-and-place and joining process, three shafts and five gears have to be fitted into a gear housing.

Although Primus did not yet have any experience or know-how in robotics, the company decided to implement this automation project itself without external support.

"With the automation, we were not concerned with optimizing the cycle time, but with increasing the process accuracy and achieving stable repeatability. We also wanted to remain flexible in the implementation and selection of the hardware," explains the managing director.< /p>

Primus therefore decided to get in touch with ArtiMinds and to program and commission the required flexible robot cell with the manufacturer-independent robot programming software ArtiMinds RPS.

Primus sums it up: "The software solution from ArtiMinds was an important building block in the implementation of our requirements. In a classically programmed environment, we would have needed significantly more test cycles and a significantly longer development time."