Intelligent manipulation of non-rigid parts in industry applications

The problems by manipulation of non rigid and flabby, ductile and adhesive parts is an incidental and well known challenge in industrial automation practice. These problems are almost very complicated in each case. Nowadays many assembling, handling and mounting processes of such products were still done by manual activities. This is often the reason that industrial productions move from central Europe to countries with low labour and so low production costs. For an efficient handling of theses parts it is necessary to develop particularly intelligent and convenient interfaces form the handling device to the material and to adapt it especially to the product in each application. In consequence of constructional defects of these interfaces the commercial profitability of capital investment for production optimisation is still challenged. Beside theoretic information's about the problem followed by the principally solutions and the realization in an industrial manner done by ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH are shown in this paper