Robotics

Three Advantages for Machine Builders & Manufacturers

robotics can increase plant floor safety

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.


robotics can improve productivity and reliability

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.


robotics can combat workforce challenges

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.

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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 our growing family of robotics solutions:

collaborative robot cobot
cobot

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
scara and articulated robots

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.

  • Sorting
  • Assembly
  • Pick & Place
robotic palletizer

PALLETIZING

With the right robotic palletizer, you can set it up and start palletizing in five minutes. Palletizing systems can come with the conveyor, scanners, controller and software pre-programmed from the factory and ready to use. If you’re using a collaborative robotic palletizer, it doesn’t have to be guarded for safety, and it can be wheeled around the plant and redeployed for various tasks.

delta or spider robot

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).

  • Pick & Place
  • Sorting
  • Dispensing
  • Small scale machining
  • Assembly
cartesian robot

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.

  • CNC milling
  • Sorting
  • Palletizing
  • Pick & Place
6-axis robot

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.

  • Welding
  • Pick & Place
  • Stack & Sort
  • Painting
autonomous mobile robot

Autonomous Mobile Robots

Autonomous mobile robots can independently, safely and efficiently navigate their environment and transport materials across large areas – in some cases, more safely and efficiently than humans. They can handle materials from a couple hundred to more than 4000 pounds, so they are perfect for small or large material handling jobs on your factory floor, like identifying, grabbing and transporting materials across your plant floor while avoiding obstacles and people.

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.

Massman's Collaborative Robots Offer New Packaging Solutions (VIDEO)
aagard robotics

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.
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Aagard's Industrial Robotics Solution is the Future of the Packaging Industry (VIDEO)
aagard robotics

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.
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Robotics News & Updates

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