Zünd, distributed exclusively in Australia by Starleaton, has unveiled a new robotic arm which can fully integrate with Zünd cutting tables to offer boosted efficiencies in the print room.

Dale Hawkins, industrial manager at Starleaton, said the new Robot Factory innovation marks a new direction towards plug and play technology, rather than bespoke robotics.

“Here at FESPA we are demonstrating this G3 Zünd cutter which has also got a robotic arm working alongside it. So, what this does is it cuts your pieces and packs them into boxes or puts them on a pile on a table so suddenly you are removing labour out of the process,” Hawkins said.

“So this has been a quite significant launch because what was happening before was you had someone at the end of the table picking it all up or someone at the end would have to sort out the basket at the end.

“This is not the first time they have shown robotics but it is the first time it is a fully integrated system so what would have happened in the past is we would have worked with the robotic suppliers and they would have worked out how to integrate it bespoke for each customer but what they have done now is create a system which has all of the components and interfaces that you need for it to be plug and play.”

Zünd managing director Jacob Hansen said, “The concept of this is that this is a standard table which has the robot integrated with suction caps and air and safety so you roll it up next to your cutter and it can be any of our Zünd cutters. You connect it up with a cable and you are ready to go. You don’t need to programme anything as the software programme.

Comment below to have your say on this story.

If you have a news story or tip-off, get in touch at editorial@sprinter.com.au.  

Sign up to the Sprinter newsletter