SprutCAM X Robot cuts cycle times by 50%
August 14, 2023
Villeroy & Boch, founded in 1748, needed a CAM system for offline programming of a robotic cell for finishing bathtubs. The German manufacturer chose SprutCAM X Robot. As a result, cycle times for the company’s most complex products were cut in half.
Villeroy & Boch bathtubs are bulky, yet sophisticated products that require a high degree of precision and care in finishing. That is why SprutCAM X Robot was the right choice. The company liked the perfect price-performance ratio, state-of-the-art simulation, which is very important for the company’s fine products, and the functionality of the axis map feature.
Robot Axis Map function enables manually setting and fine-tuning the automatic control rules for the excessive degrees of freedom of a robot (the 6th axis, the rail axes, the rotary table axes).
It was also very important for Villeroy&Boch that CNC Solutions, our partner in Belgium, acted as a one-stop shop, providing the robotic cell, the CAM system for Offline Programming, the post processor and the digital twin of the robotic cell as a turnkey solution.
Here is the customer’s testimonial in detail:
Jan van Vooren, Process Engineer Villeroy&Boch.
“We used to need 3-5 days development time for our most complex projects, with SprutCAM X we can completely finish the process in one day.”
“We use SprutCAM X for the final treatment of the baths when we mill the openings for drains and overflow in various sizes.”
SprutCAM X enables us to develop programs for the robot. First I upload the drawing of our own robots into SprutCAM X. Then I select certain contours or openings. Then I can apply milling operations on those contours and openings.
We can completely simulate the program in such a way that both the robot cell and our robot are outlined. Our product then runs along. Afterwards a post processor translates the trajectories in machine code which can then be executed by the robot.
CNC solutions provided the complete turnkey solution consisting of:
- Staübli robot
- Electric control cabinet
- Robot foot
- Milling motor
- Controls
And of course, SprutCAM X Robot all together with the post processor, digital twin of the robotic cell.
See the gallery below:
Villeroy&Boch facility where the robotic cell powered by SprutCAM X Robot is operating.
Jan van Vooren, Process Engineer, Villeroy&Boch in front of finished baths.
Staübli robot working on the bath edges as programmed in SprutCAM X Robot CAM system.
Staübli robot working on the bath edges as programmed in SprutCAM X Robot CAM system.
Staübli robot milling the drain hole of the bathtub.
The robot will later machine the actual openings and edges that are selected on the 3D model.
The robot mills the overflow opening of the bathtub as programmed in offline mode.
Digital twin of the robotic cell in the SprutCAM X CAM system.
The machined bathtub taken out of the robotic cell. All programming and simulation was done in the offline programming CAM system.
