Renishaw Automation Solution Boosts Operational Efficiency

Renishaw’s RCS product line is designed to supplement human intervention, increase operational efficiencies and improve productivity through integration of various technologies such as sensors, controllers, robotics and software that enables the monitoring and control of industrial processes.

The RCS product line has been developed to solve some fundamental challenges within the global industrial automation industry. It focuses on the problems associated with manual setup, calibration and maintenance of robots, such as operational accuracy and repeatability. The range comprises three products: RCS L-90, RCS T-90 and RCS P-series, all supported by a dedicated software suite.

The RCS L-90 ballbar improves robot system accuracy, reduces deployment time and monitors robot health with simple routines controlled by its supporting software suite. RCS T-90 is a tri-ballbar system which enables robot users to identify root causes of poor performance, with further comprehensive tests to capture critical robot information — such as remastering the joint offsets to calculated positions, running master-recovery routines and plotting 3D path performance. The third RCS product, RCS P-series, integrates a permanent Renishaw probing solution within a robot cell to apply in-process metrology and automatic recovery to automation processes.

Categorized as either “in-field” or “in-process” products, the new RCS products help to simplify robot setup, health checks and recovery of robotic applications following collisions. Working with Renishaw’s intuitive robotics software, RCS Software Suite, the products support robots from a wide range of manufacturers.