Big things are happening at Solara. How big? Well, it involves one of the largest collaborative robots in the world — capable of lifting loads up to 35 kg. The future of automation is a world without safety fences, a world in which humans work side-by-side with robots. Cobots will handle the strenuous and dangerous …
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Solara Automation can assist you in addressing your factory labor challenges. Furthermore, we specialize in helping our customers overcome the challenges of deploying and integrating new factory automation. Mandatory factory shutdowns and restrictions on movement have, consequently, brought economic activity in entire regions to a standstill. Furthermore, manufacturers must now choose between the unappealing prospect …
Scope: A leading manufacturer of builder products requested Solara to design, develop, and install an end-of-line robotic palletizing system for strapped bundles of nail plates. Part/Product: Zinc-plated steel nail plates bundled and strapped together in sets of 20 each. Nail plate sizes vary from 3”x4” all the way to 10”x16” for a total of 36 …
Universal Robots is leading the market for Cobots - robots that function 'collaboratively' with workers. Solara sees increasing demand for UR robots for applications that 'replace a human arm' as manufacturers struggle to meet staffing requirements. We are pleased to join the UR CSI program and to offer this robot option to our customers. Solara …
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Application: Forming and Inspection System Industry: Automotive Solara’s customer manufactures components of automotive drive axles. The requirements for the station were to first inspect previous assembly step, to stake the part, and last to inspect the staking process. Solara engineered and built a single-robot cell. After the previous assembly step, the operator loads parts into …
Application: Material Handling and Inspection System Industry: Automotive Solara Automation’s customer is a bearing manufacturer. The automation requirement was to support the overmolding of three plastic parts. The equipment needed to bulk feed substrates, load into mold press for 2nd stage process, unload finish parts from mold, inspect parts for defects, and package into totes. …
Application: Chamfer Grinding Machine Industry: Automotive Customer asked Solara Automation to design, build and test a machine to grind a chamfer on ceramic disks. We engineered a free-standing workstation consisting of a 4-position rotary dial table, magazine-fed part infeed, a grinding wheel mounted on a swing arm, an air knife to blow off grinding dust, …
Application: Assembly Machine Industry: Industrial Components Solara engineered this assembly machine in the production of drive rollers used in conveyor systems. The project required automation to produce grooves in steel tubes with auto-positioning of hydraulic grooving heads and precise groove depth control. 240 parts per hour Auto part load/unload Hydraulic form tooling; dual head/dual groove …
Application: Assembly Machine Industry: Pharmaceutical Solara Automation was given the responsibility of assembling a device specifically created for cardiovascular screening purposes. The challenge at hand was to automate the intricate process of assembling plastic vials that are both liquid-filled and hermetically sealed. In order to meet this specific requirement, Solara's engineers meticulously developed a highly …
Application: Material Handling, Welding, and Grinding Industry: Tools Solara Automation's customer produces portable bandsaw blades. Solara's engineers faced the challenge of creating an automation cell responsible for feeding the raw material, shaping the blade into a loop, welding the ends together, annealing the seam, and grinding it. Solara designed and constructed a three-robot cell for …
