Today you face more operational challenges than ever before. You are under pressure to increase productivity, offer production flexibility and customization, and maintain safe, secure machines, all while navigating difficult workforce dynamics. You can count on Van Meter’s comprehensive robotic solution and team of technical experts to help you operate at your optimum.
Three Advantages for Machine Builders & Manufacturers
Increase plant floor safety.
Combat dangerous, dirty and dull tasks with a robotic solution. By removing potentially unsafe and repetitive jobs with a robot, you’ll reduce injuries and liability.
Improve productivity and reliability.
Robotic solutions can operate 24/7/365, improve quality and reduce output errors with no human interaction. Knowing it’s reliable and productive allows for greater flexibility within your manufacturing processes.
Combat workforce challenges.
By 2025 there will be more than two million jobs that will go unfilled [Deloitte]. Improve workforce retention by deploying people to more meaningful jobs and allow robotic solutions do the dull, dangerous and dirty tasks.
Expanded Robotics Solutions
No matter your application, Van Meter has a complete line of robotics to support it.
Does it need to be stationary and fixed to a specific process or does your robot need to move to different locations during the day? Does it need to able to work in harsh environments? Does it need to complete one task in the morning and a different task that afternoon? Will it work alongside people? Does it need to run at higher speeds, have longer reach and carry heavier payloads? We can cover it all.
Meet the newest additions to our growing family of robotics solutions →
COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS
SCARA & ARTICULATED ROBOTS
PALLETIZING
DELTA
CARTESIAN
6-AXIS
COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS
Often referred to as cobots, these robots are cost efficient and within reach for any organization. Known to be lightweight and flexible, cobots can work safely alongside people to improve quality, consistency and safety. The ease of programing allows them to be reprogrammed and redeployed to different tasks as often as needed.
Ideal applications
Machine tending
Packaging
Palletizing
Assembly
Screwdriving
Dispensing
Polishing
Welding
And more
SCARA & ARTICULATED ROBOTS
Selective Compliance Articulated
Robot Arm, or SCARA, robots
are ideal for high speed and high
accuracy applications. These
robots require only a small footprint and repeatability makes these highly accurate and reliable machines.
Ideal applications
Sorting
Assembly
Pick & Place
PALLETIZING
Whether you need to unpack a pallet in the front end of your operation or stack boxes, bags or product on a pallet at the end of the line, a palletizing robot can be programmed to conduct the task faster, safer and more reliably. It offers flexibility in configuration, a large payload and requires a small footprint making it ideal for installation in tight spaces.
DELTA
Maximize your production parts
per minute with a delta, or spider
robot solution. Designed with all
arms connected to a universal
base, payload is minimized by
keeping all motors stationary.
These low maintenance robots are ideal for high-speed processing facilities (up to 300 parts per minute).
Ideal applications
Pick & Place
Sorting
Dispensing
Small scale machining
Assembly
CARTESIAN
These simple designed robots
allow for moving a wide variety
of payloads over larger
distances. Cartesian robots can
be mounted from above to leave
workspace unobstructed and free from a pedestal. There’s a variety of end-of-arm tooling solutions to handle many payload requirements.
Ideal applications
CNC milling
Sorting
Palletizing
Pick & Place
6-AXIS
A type of articulated robot,
6-Axis robots offer a wide range
of payload capacities – a few
kilograms to a thousand
kilograms. Presenting a wide
array of applications, these act like a human arm that is able to move in the X-, Y-, and Z- planes.
Ideal applications
Welding
Pick & Place
Stack & Sort
Painting
Robotics Case Studies
Van Meter Knows Robotics
Smooth robotics implementation starts with Van Meter. Our team of industry and technical experts understands the manufacturing industry, your unique applications, and advanced robotics solutions better than anyone. We brainstorm with you to meet your business goals, presenting new ideas you may not have considered before.
We build strong partnerships with industry-leading robotics manufacturers. They support technology integration and understand that time to market matters.
Van Meter works with OEMs and industrial manufacturers at all levels: small shops that have no experience with robotics, companies that used robotics in the past without much success, and customers that have relied on robotics for years but are looking for new ways to work faster, safer, and smarter.
Do you need speed, efficiency and flexibility in a tight workspace? Watch the video to see the robot demo in action, or read on to discover how Aagard’s industrial robotics solution is solving challenges for its customers. Read the case study »
Massman Automation is doing big things in the packaging industry with the power of robotics. Watch how they implemented a collaborative robotics solution that operates and interacts in same workspace as an operator. Read the case study »
Everything You Need to Succeed
Want to see what robotics can do for you? Schedule your demo now.
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