Industrial robots have a more compact structure, larger bearing capacity and higher precision requirements than traditional machinery. However, they also pose a challenge to providers of lubrication products. Let’s have a look at typical lubrication requirements and solutions for robots in the automotive, electronics and food industries.
In our current era of artificial intelligence and innovative technologies, industrial robots, known as the “pearl in the manufacturing crown”, have successfully made their way into the production lines of a growing number of companies across many industries, doing tedious and repetitive work and greatly improving production and efficiency. Industrial robots have even become an important indicator of a country’s innovation and industrial competitiveness. Industrial robots have a more compact structure, larger bearing capacity and higher precision requirements than traditional machinery. However, they also pose a challenge to providers of lubrication products. Let us have a look at typical lubrication requirements and our solutions for robots in the automotive, electronics and food industries.
Robots are widely utilised in the automotive industry for such processes as welding, assembly, gluing, painting and handling. For robots in the automotive industry, appropriate lubrication not only reduces friction and wear between contact partners but also supports the reliability and utilisation time of reducer gears. That means for example extending the oil change cycle, though reducing the costs and labour associated with oil change. At the same time, the lubricant must have a stable performance at high and low temperatures and furthermore a high level of material compatibility with seals to prevent leakage during long-term usage.
Our gear oil Klübersynth GEM 4-150N is widely used in the MRO market for re-lubrication of cycloid gears. Its excellent performance has been proved through many years of use in the European market and has been accepted by many operators.