Delcam appoints CNC Robotics as robot integrator

Honeyring is a manufacturer of all types of products in expanded polystyrene (gorilla pictured). As well as the conventional applications in building and insulation, the company also uses the latest cutting technology to produce larger-than-life objects in polystyrene for artistic and architectural projects, and for logos and point-of-sale displays. Under the agreement between Delcam and CNC Robotics, CNC Robotics will supply the PowerMILL Robot Interface with both new and reconditioned robots, while the company will also use PowerMILL for its in-house, robot-based machining service. A joint seminar on machining with robots will be held by the two companies at Delcam's Birmingham headquarters on 4 July (more details and registration, www.delcam.co.uk/robot). CNC Robotics was founded last year with the aim of bringing robot machining within the price range of many more companies. It can supply a complete solution of robot, spindle, cutting tools and programming software, or can provide a machining service for customers that only have an occasional need for the large-scale manufacturing capabilities that robots can provide. Both CNC Robotics and Delcam believe that robots offer a cost-effective alternative to machine tools for the production of large items in softer materials, including plastics and composites. While robots cannot duplicate the high precision possible with modern machine tools, they are more than capable of meeting the accuracy requirements of many modelmaking, trimming and sculpting applications, the pair suggest. See article on European Robot machining research development here