The SUHNER Electric Force Compliance (EFC-02) system is the solution to automate your grinding processes
End-of-arm-tooling (eoat) for robotic grinding
Reduce production costs and increase productivity with the SUHNER EFC-02 Active Electric Force Compliance System. The end-of-arm-tooling connects the grinding machine to the robotic arm. The fully-electric operation allows constant monitoring of force and acceleration during surface finishing through high frequency measurements.
SUHNER Robotic Grinding supports your transformation
Our fully-electric technology is ideal for small and big batch production. The compliance function simplifies robot programming and ensures consistent surface quality. With SUHNER Abrasive's process know-how, you increase the efficiency of your production. Supplemented by suitable grinding machines and abrasives, you achieve consistently high quality. Make the switch from manual work to robotics.
Transforming manual grinding, polishing, sanding and deburring operations into robotics have key benefits for metal processing
Empower Your
Skilled Labor
Increase
Productivity
Lower
Production
Costs
Simple Device
Integration
Abrasive Process
Know-how
Production
Flexibility
In metalworking companies, the shortage of skilled workers and increasing demands for sustainability is an important issue. Work performed by people has the greatest impact on costs and productivity.
Productivity
Almost any welded structures, requires post processing to be removed or blended. This could be up to two thirds of the production time and could be affected by absenteeism, operator injuries and operator wearing.
This currently represents a bottle neck towards a more efficient and more sustainable productions.
Production cost
Manufacturing metal structures requires huge number of man-hours, to remove welds, burrs and obtain a high-quality product.
Especially in sectors as medical, pharmaceutical and food, where the surface quality is critical to ensures hygiene regulations, the manual post processing could cost up to half of the production costs.
Skilled Labor
Metal processing quality strongly depends on the manual skills of the person doing it. Less and less people want to do this hard and dangerous job and manufacturers struggle in finding labor.
This is well-in-line with the Megatrend of Sustainability, that not only means taking care of the environmental impact, but it is also to ensure a good life quality of everyone.
Advantages of SUHNER’s fully-electric end effector for grinding, polishing, sanding and deburring
Exact contact force with the surface is the single most important factor in robotic grinding, sanding and deburring processes – and one of the biggest challenges. This is critical throughout the process regardless of variations in surface shape and orientation.
EFC-02 Active Compliance End Effector is fully electric. This enables constant monitoring of force and acceleration during machining through high frequency measurements. The control algorithm dynamically and automatically adjusts the force to the grinding process. The result is consistently high surface quality.
Enables automation
of complex parts
Adapted to small and
big lot productions
Fully electric and
easy to integrate
The result is consistently
high surface quality
Robotic grinding with SUHNER EFC-02
Precise force control
in all orientations
Access to tight areas access
thanks to compact design
Visual operator
feedback with LED
Maximized up-time with
data-driven maintenance
notifications
Stand-alone operation with
48V power supply and
ModBus or web interface
A complete range of end effectors and abrasive changers to automate your process
Angle grinders, orbital sander, angle polisher, roller units and straight grinders can be used with SUHNER’s end-of-arm-tooling. In addition, automatic abrasive changers can be used.
Contact us!
Your contact for the automation of your grinding processes
SUHNER Schweiz AG
Industriestrasse 10
5242 Lupfig
Switzerland
Tel: +41 56 464 28 28
E-Mail: robotics@suhner.com
