Laser marking machine TOWERSHUTTLE

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About three years ago, LASIT came into contact with a Swedish company that produces components for the automotive industry. The company needed to laser marking a DataMatrix code on differential boxes, integrating the laser marker in a robot cell. We therefore designed and built the Tower Shuttle, a customized laser marker equipped with YZ axes, a 20Watt fiber optic laser designed for integration with robots. The biggest strength of the TowerShuttle is that it interfaces with the robot that loads and unloads the component on the motorized slide, which moves the template in Y, leading it inside the cabin, preventing any problems or damage to the machine itself. When the robot arm positions the differential box on the corresponding template, the external piece presence sensors detect it and the motorized system with integrated encoder lets the slide move with extreme precision: at this point, the marking cycle can begin. Inside the cabin is a camera, positioned next to the marking head, which frames the differential box and checks its position before starting laser marking. At the end of the process, the same camera checks the quality of the DataMatrix and the components comes out from the cabin to be picked up by the robot and inserted in the next cell station.