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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series

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Overview: The document provides a comprehensive overview of FANUC's ROBOSHOT α-SiB series, a high-precision electric injection moulding machine designed to minimize total cost of ownership while maximizing precision, reliability, and process control. It complies with the international safety standard EN ISO 20430:2020 and is suitable for various industries, including electrical, construction, optical, consumer goods, automotive, and medical sectors.
Cost Efficiency: The ROBOSHOT α-SiB series offers low running costs, averaging 555 € per year for parts and service, based on data from 98 machines over 65 years. It is noted for its high energy efficiency and low maintenance requirements, providing the lowest cost of ownership in the market.
Technological Features: The machine integrates advanced CNC technology for precise movement and short cycle times. It features a 21.5" touch screen with split screen functionality, AI functionality for wear prediction, and an enhanced lubrication system.
Connectivity and Interfaces: The α-SiB series includes improved connectivity options with Ethernet and USB ports, compatibility with Euromap 77, and remote monitoring capabilities via ROBOSHOT-LINKi2, which manages up to 1,000 machines in real-time.
Application Versatility: The ROBOSHOT series supports high injection speeds up to 550 mm/s, precise moulding capabilities, and repeatable shot weights from 0.1 g. It supports multi-component moulding with vertical and horizontal injection units and advanced technologies for LSR, MIM, and CIM processes.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: ROBOSHOT machines consume 50-70% less energy than hydraulic machines and 5-10% less than other electric machines, featuring a power consumption screen for energy optimization and contributing to CO2 reduction.
Mould Protection: FANUC's AI mould and ejector protection system prevents damage, reduces repair costs, and minimizes downtime, offering maximum protection without affecting speed.
Process Control and Monitoring: The document details FANUC's Precise Metering functions and Backflow Monitor, enhancing process control and wear monitoring, ensuring constant part weight and easy parameter adjustments.
Model Specifications: Detailed specifications for various ROBOSHOT models are provided, including screw diameter, injection volume, speed, pressure, and machine weight, highlighting the adaptability for various materials and processes.
Machine Features: The ROBOSHOT series offers advanced features such as AI backflow monitoring, cycle time analysis, power consumption monitoring, and extensive data storage capabilities, supporting multiple interfaces and inputs/outputs.
Display and Input Options: The machines feature a 21.5" HD touchscreen display with multilingual support and customizable menu buttons, ensuring secure and efficient operation through password protection and ID card access.
Injection and Plasticising Control: The document outlines control stages for injection pressure, speed, and holding pressure, emphasizing AI-driven metering and pressure profile trace control for precision and efficiency.
Clamp and Ejector Control: Detailed control stages for clamp and ejector operations are provided, including automatic die height adjustment and precise clamp force control, with AI-based mold and ejector protection features.
Intelligent Automation: FANUC's integrated approach to manufacturing is underscored by its in-house development of major components, ensuring reliability and ease of maintenance, with an emphasis on energy management and seamless connectivity across FANUC products.
Additional Technologies: The document briefly mentions other FANUC technologies such as the ROBODRILL machining center, SCARA robots, ROBOCUT wire EDM machines, and collaborative robots, showcasing the company's comprehensive automation solutions.
Robotic Solutions Overview: The document highlights FANUC's robotic solutions, emphasizing their capabilities, ease of automation, and support services, particularly in high-speed handling processes.
Specifications: FANUC robots offer payload capacities ranging from 1 kg to 2.3 tons, suitable for various industrial applications, designed for ultra-fast picking, assembling, and sorting.
Automation and Integration: The Quick & Simple Start up of Robotisation (QSSR) allows for easy installation and integration of FANUC robots, with a common servo and control platform simplifying learning and operation.
Efficiency Benefits: Key benefits include easy robot accessibility, plug-and-play connectivity, seamless loading and unloading, and highly repeatable insert placement with precision up to +/-0.01 mm.
Visual Error Proofing: FANUC's integrated vision system, iRVision, enhances error detection and part placement accuracy, reducing the need for process revalidation and saving time.
Global Support and Services: FANUC offers comprehensive global support, including lifetime OEM spare parts, remote diagnostics through FANUC Assisted Reality (FAR), and extensive maintenance services to maximize uptime and productivity.
Training and Warranty: The FANUC Academy provides training programs for all skill levels, and extended warranties are available upon request, with aftersales support available 24/7.
Product Range: FANUC's product offerings include CNCs, servo motors, lasers, industrial robots, CNC wire-cut electric discharge machines, compact CNC machining centers, electric CNC injection molding machines, and Industry 4.0 solutions.
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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-1

THE FACTORY AUTOMATION COMPANY α-SiB series High Precision Electric Injection Moulding The new all electric ROBOSHOT WWW.FANUC.EU years of ROBOSHOT technology

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-2

On average it costs just 555 € a year (parts and service) to run a ROBOSHOT machine. This analysis derives from data collected at 11 companies across the medical, automotive and consumer industries running 98 ROBOSHOT machines over a total of 65 years. Very low maintenance costs, exceptionally high uptime, fewer components and less wear all mean that concerns over cost of ownership are a thing of the past. Your benefits with FANUC ROBOSHOT: • maximum precision • proven reliability • excellent repeatability • ultimate process control • lowest cost of ownership Total cost of ownership (TCO) -There...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-3

As a prominent manufacturer of servo motors and CNC controls worldwide, we have established ourselves as experts in servo technology and tooling, making us a leading industry player. Long proven in FANUC machining centres, FANUC employs this same state-of-the art CNC technology in ROBOSHOT to provide an unrivalled electric injection moulding solution. The results are huge versatility, utmost precision of movement and extremely short cycle times to produce larger quantities of consistently high-quality parts. • enhanced operator panel functionality • additional core operation buttons • additional...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-4

Drawing on more than 65 years of continuous development, the centrepiece of the FANUC ROBOSHOT is the most reliable CNC control in the world. User friendly and featuring all the standard interfaces, it delivers fast processing times and consistent parts quality. FANUC prides itself on providing many data software options as standard. The a-SiB series has been designed with enhanced storage and connectivity options to bring greater benefits to the end user. Alarm logs, change history and operational logs, along with monitoring history have all been significantly enhanced to provide a significant...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-5

ROBOSHOT connectivity and interfaces Improved connectivity ROBOSHOT-LINKi2 Production and quality information management VNC (Virtual Network Computing) Remote display and operation of the screen FANUC Robot: • remote operation from ROBOSHOT • collection of iRVision image files Parts picker Analog input Input voltage or current value Auxiliary communication Total management of the setting value Pressure, Temperature sensor Measuring devices Mould temperature controller Material dryer Hot-runner controlle

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-6

Remote monitoring with ROBOSHOT-LINKi2 ROBOSHOT-LINKi2 is a product and quality information management tool that manages up to 1,000 ROBOSHOT machines in real time from remote PCs or smart devices. You can access ROBOSHOT-LINKi2 via web browser on PC or tablet as well as running on the new α-SiB series split screen display. It can be stranded alone or interfaced via Euromap 63 or 77 for all your future IoT requirements, and with up to 120 months of logged data. Status monitor: •a chieves lower cost and higher operation rate • monitors power consumption •m onitors all process parameters and moulding...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-7

Versatile clamp unit High-performance injection unit ROBOSHOT's injection unit features an AI Metering Control, that uses torque rather than speed control to achieve a variable screw rotation speed. Its AI Backflow Monitor shows what is happening inside the non return valve, so you can monitor the closing characteristics as well as the wear status of the check ring. The AI Pressure Trace controls the pressure curve to ensure stable injection moulding even if an internal violation occurs. Additional horizontal and vertical injection units can also be added to the ROBOSHOT for multi-component moulding....

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-8

The efficient all-rounder for a wide range of industries Every manufacturing industry sector has its own plastic application requirements. Offering versatility across a huge variety of processing conditions, ROBOSHOT meets the majority of them. Boasting a wealth of standard features designed to help you achieve optimum process conditions and the highest repeatability. ROBOSHOT injection moulding machines are designed for quick and simple set-up whilst maintaining a high degree of functionality. They offer world beating precision moulding resulting in high production yields and unbeatable parts...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-9

Automotive industry With a host of special functions designed to resolve issues such as gas venting or variations in plasticising time and volume, FANUC ROBOSHOT is ideal for high-volume automotive component production. The most market’s most reliable machine, ROBOSHOT keeps on producing flawless parts in fast cycle times and with minimum maintenance. Moreover, because automotive production runs change frequently, ROBOSHOT comes with 6 different screw sizes, providing outstanding versatility from a single machine. Electrical industry Quality, reliability and repeatability are critical in medical...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-10

With models capable of exerting clamping forces from 150kN to 5000kN, FANUC ROBOSHOT is ideally suited to a diverse range of straightforward as well as sophisticated injection moulding tasks. Offering huge versatility, ROBOSHOT’s unique strength is the freedom it provides you to produce almost anything using just one machine – whether that be delicate items such as camera lenses to products, such as battery cases, that require high levels of exertive force to produce. What is more, thanks to its high level of specification, even standard ROBOSHOT machines can be used to produce specialised items...

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ROBOSHOT α-SiB series-11

FANUC's Long-standing ethos of designing and manufacturing all-electric machines such as the ROBOSHOT helps manufacturers to meet their environmental responsibilities and emissions-reduction targets. Consuming 50-70% less energy than hydraulic machines and up to 5-10% less than other electric injection-moulding machines, further sustainability advantages of all-electric injection-moulding technology include fewer components, lower heat emissions to atmosphere, and no oil or oil recycling costs. Power consumption screen Fitted as standard and including an energy analysis page, this function identifies...

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