Tool Changer Selection for the Robot to Attach and Detach the End of Arm Tooling

Abstract

In today’s world, industrial revolution is changing to the industry 4.0. Humanless manufacturing has started to increase the productivity and reduce the cost of the production. Automobile industry is one of the areas, in which such drastic changes are happening day by day. As per the requirement of the customers, a number of variants are produced by the organization to sustain in the market, and such operations are performed by the robots. Fixture and grippers are used for holding and material handling of the parts, respectively. Tool changer is the part, which is used in between the robot and gripper. Signals from robot to gripper and gripper to robot are transferred by the tool changer. Fast and automatic tool changing is done by using it. This paper deals with the study of proper selection of tool changer of robot and how this action enhances the flexibility and productivity.