Mitsubishi Electric was at the Türkiye Robot Investments Summit with its new cobot and innovative automation solutions

Mitsubishi Electric Turkey introduced the automation and robot solutions of the future at the Robot Investments Summit and Exhibition held at Istanbul Expo Center. During the promotion, we also had a short interview with Robot Product Manager Zeynep Osmanpaşaoğlu.

Mitsubishi Electric Turkey, which offers businesses the opportunity to build the digital factories of the future with its automation solutions and robots, exhibited e-F@ctory, the concept that prepares the industry for Industry 4.0, and other solutions under this roof at the fair. Mitsubishi Electric’s robots, which offer significant advantages in terms of occupational safety and worker health in difficult and dangerous areas, shape the future of businesses with flexible production models that provide high efficiency, quality and speed. Melfa Assista, the company’s collaborative robot with advanced artificial intelligence technology that assists the human workforce, attracted great attention from visitors at the four-day fair. SCARA type industrial robots, MELSERVO and MELSEC PLC technologies, designed to meet the needs of cost-sensitive applications, and the new generation advanced robot hand panel R86TB, introduced for the first time at the fair, were also appreciated by the visitors.

“Unmanned” quality control application experience

Technology giant Mitsubishi Electric Turkey gave visitors a live experience of the latest developments in automation and robot technologies with two separate interactive demos at the fair. Visitors witnessed a robot performing quality control with the processing sensor it moved inside the indoor unit of the Legendera model of Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioning Systems, and thanks to the monitoring of this process in a virtual environment with a VR headset, the process was carried out without the need for a quality control expert to be at the device. At the Mitsubishi Electric stand, they had the opportunity to see how a cobot mounted on an AMR contributes to flexible production by performing certain tasks by traveling between stations placed at different points.

Evaluating the fair, Mitsubishi Electric Turkey President Şevket Saraçoğlu said, “Mitsubishi Electric, with its more than 145 thousand employees in more than 120 countries around the world, offers aerospace technology, semiconductors, energy production and distribution, communication and communication technology, consumer electronics, industrial automation. and one of the world’s important organizations in the fields of building technologies. At the Robot Investments Summit, we highlight our flexible production solutions and integrated automation power that demonstrate Mitsubishi Electric’s strength in the field of robotics. With the collaborative robots and industrial robots we exhibit here, we show how we facilitate robotic automation and how we overcome complex tasks with artificial intelligence. “Our solutions and demos here show businesses ways to further accelerate and facilitate their processes and increase their efficiency in the business world where competition increases every day and borders disappear,” he said.

Sevket Saracoglu

Stating that they aim to direct digital transformation with innovative automation concepts, Nurettin Geçgel, General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Turkey Factory Automation Systems, said: “Today, businesses need to quickly respond to rapidly changing and increasing consumer needs and variable and increasing demand. At this point, smart engineering solutions and the use of robots are of great importance. As Mitsubishi Electric Turkey Factory Automation Systems, we help establish the digital factories of the future today and help businesses stand out in global competition. “We continue to work intensively to be a guide for companies in the Industry 4.0 world, to move our industry forward, to create new success stories and to make these successes sustainable,” he said.

Zeynep Osmanpasaoglu

We had a short interview with Robot Product Manager Zeynep Osmanpaşaoğlu, especially about the new cobot Melfa Assista:

High-speed mode feature

First of all, what are the features that distinguish your new cobot from other cobots?

One of the most important features is that it comes embedded in all software features and these are not considered as options. Plus, as you know, the speed of collaborative robots is much lower than normal industrial robot speeds, going at 250 mm/s. A feature of our robot is that it can operate in high-speed mode. If we explain this high-speed mode: We have a safety unit, for example, it is a system that you can log in to this safety unit and automatically switch to direct collaborative speed and high speed speed by optimizing the speed with a rate of 70% in high speed mode when there is no one within 1.5 meters. We can establish. This prevents some of the slowness caused by collaboration. Apart from this, since it has an integrated automation structure, Mitsubishi robots can communicate with all other Mitsubishi products via Ethernet. Data exchange is possible. At the same time, automatic monitoring is carried out with the complex camera that can be integrated into our cobot.

As such, applications such as visiting different stations and doing the work there are possible on a traveling AGV.

Is it possible to make software modifications?

Of course, we write the robot software ourselves. We also provide training. It has a very flexible software, we can use data from different places. We can also write the application steps in it. It has a flexible and comfortable interface.

So which sectors are you targeting?

The sectors we target are Food & Beverage and of course the automotive industry, especially in assembly lines where humans and cobots must work together, where some of the work is done by humans and some by the cobot. We cannot make a restriction such as “the sector we target is this sector”, any job that is repetitive and can be transferred to the cobot will be our target.

What are your plans regarding cobots for Türkiye?

We are trying to increase our sales targets. We are trying to contact end users in sectors we do not communicate with. We have a system integrator structure, we establish these integrations through our own system integrator. Apart from these, we will now have a model that works at a higher weight and has more work efficiency. Different tasks can be accomplished with that model. Our current cobot has a lifting capacity of 5 kg and a reach of approximately 1 meter. We hope to increase this limit and provide solutions to different places.