Omron Corporation introduces the new LD-250 mobile robot, the most powerful and newest member of the company's LD series of mobile robots with a payload capacity of 250 kilograms. In combination with the Fleet Manager, which for the first time in the industry enables the control of multiple mobile robots with different payloads via a single system, the LD-250 contributes to more flexible and optimised autonomous material handling.
With the LD-250 and Fleet Manager, companies and production facilities around the world can Productivity and profitability of a highly mixed manufacturing process increase, to overcome challenges such as the declining number of skilled workers in industrialised countries and rising labour costs in emerging markets.
Doubled loading area and autonomous material transport
The new LD-250 mobile robot scores points with a payload of 250 kilograms and an almost doubled loading area. It is therefore ideal for transporting large automotive components such as transmission blocks or bulky packaging materials - items that are normally transported by employees in trolleys.
To optimise autonomous material transport, customers can use the industry's first Fleet Manager from Omron, which can be used to control up to 100 mobile Omron robots with different payloads and functions. The Fleet Manager takes over the tasks of traffic and battery management as well as order management. The LD-250 robot can recognise people and obstacles independently and automatically calculates the optimum collision-free path.
„Since acquiring the US robotics company Adept Technology in 2015, Omron has been working with its Omron initiative „innovative-Automation“ to support customers in the realisation of flexible production. The new LD-250 is the key to expanding this initiative, as it offers customers more choices in the automation of their material transport.“
Motohiro Yamanishi, Senior General Manager of the Robotics Business Development Project of Omron's Industrial Automation Company
Logistics solutions for social problems
Tom Mathias, President and CEO of Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies, a leading provider of robotics and safety solutions for the manufacturing industry and a division of Omron's Industrial Automation business, adds:
„On-site logistics is becoming an ever-increasing problem for many companies due to the volume of work and the associated tiring effect on their employees, combined with constantly rising labour costs. Omron's mobile robots can help companies meet this challenge.“
With the addition of the LD-250 to the LD series, customers in a wide range of industries, including automotive, electronics, food and raw materials, need the LD-250 to be able to fulfil their needs, No fixed transport systems set up any more. Instead, they can develop a system that can react flexibly to changing market requirements.
Omron supports the Solving social problems, by freeing employees from the tedious and tiring work of transporting materials and allowing them to devote themselves to more creative tasks.
Source: Omron Corporation
