Good Robot Programming Is An Art…But It Doesn’t Have To Be

For many dispensing applications, good robot programming is an art…but it doesn’t have to be.

In a mass production environment, a desired well-controlled dispensing process is supposed to produce the right amount of “glue” at the right location on parts in a consistent way with minimum production downtime. However, if a candid conversation can be engaged with experienced members of the manufacturing community, it will show that the reality has long been quite a deviation from this beautiful desire of well-controlled beads. There are many reasons for this, but fundamentally dispensing is, relatively speaking, a new manufacturing process, and there has not been a widespread wealth of experience and knowledge shared across the industry to deal with many inherent variations.

This white paper addresses the challenges the still young adhesive and sealant dispensing industry is faced with, typical variations engineers encounter and the process control solutions to overcome these variations.