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2022/11/11
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Playing it safe in the assembly of MRI machines
The future belongs to human-robot cooperation. System builder BEC developed such a collaborative solution for ...
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The future belongs to human-robot cooperation. System builder BEC developed such a collaborative solution for Siemens Healthineers. It inserts coils weighing several tonnes precisely into the magnets of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. Electric cylinders from Festo, which ensure the coils are securely gripped, play a crucial role here.  
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BEC – Cooperation with Festo
Hans-Günther Nusseck, project manager at BEC (left), and Timo Kloker, sales engineer at Festo, discussing the use of the Festo electric cylinders in the system.
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BEC – Hans-Günther Nusseck
Hans-Günther Nusseck, project manager at BEC 
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BEC – Servo drive CMMT-ST
Practical: the drive amplifiers, in this case the servo drives CMMT-ST, are mounted on the robot itself, rather than on the gripper system. This frees up space on the gripper and makes it less complicated.
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BEC – Supports with electric cylinders
Flexible, robust and precise: the supports with electric cylinders from Festo need to be powerful enough to be able to hold the coils weighing up to 1.5 tonnes, but at the same time not so powerful that they damage them.
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BEC – High-tech gripper system
High-tech gripper system on the articulated arm robot. It is vital that the coils do not twist or slip when the gripper picks them up and inserts them into the magnets; the tolerance for inserting the coils into the magnets is no more than 0.5...
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BEC – Insertion of coils into the magnets
Collaborative solution: coils weighing several tonnes are inserted precisely into the magnets of magnetic resonance imaging machines.
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Christian Österle
Christian Österle, Vice President Sustainability, Festo SE & Co. KG
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Title picture Lean and Green Management Award
The Operation Unit "Modular Valves" at the Festo plant in Scharnhausen, Germany, is one of the winners of the "Lean and Green Management Award 2022". (Photographer: David Weyand)