DANIELI Telerobot in
metal industry

LADLE

Sample & measurement, Lancing, Shroud manipulation, Tundish powder.

Q-CAST LADLE

"Zero operators" multifunction robotic cell to allow fully automatic operations in ladle area composed by:
- robot #1, 6-axis anthropomorphic arm for lancing, sampling & measurements, powder addition,
- robot #2, 4-axis electric/hydraulic servo-manipulator for shroud handling,
working in cooperative mode in fully automatic or remotely controlled configuration.

Sampling & measurement

• Tundish steel bath temperature and chemical composition measurements: oxygen (CELOX), hydrogen (HYDRIS), physical samples for lab analysis (IDCAS) with automatic cartridge loading/unloading;
• Dedicated lances with automatic tool-change and relevant tools for each function stored in a specific rack.

Nozzle position detection

• Nozzle position acquisition by a 3d vision system fully integrated on the robot #2 or on a dedicated rotating / fixed boom (depending on the configuration of the casting area).

Shroud manipulation

• Automatic shroud handling from the shrouds rack – each of which fitted into a dedicated mechanical device, with argon line feeding and connected to the manipulator by a quick-change tool – to the sliding gate nozzle, to the parking position and to the oxygen cleaning station;
• automatic relative position management to allow the interaction of the two robots for the emergency lancing operations.

Lancing

• Nozzle emergency oxygen lancing - in case of non-spontaneous opening;
• Nozzle position acquired from robot #2 video system;
• Automatic self-ignition cartridges.

Powder addition

• Tundish powder automatic dosing and distributing to provide a thin and uniform powder thickness over the whole casting process;
• Optional cast-eye sensor-camera to check the powder thickness and bath coverage.

Q-CAST LADLE CYLINDER

Sliding gate hydraulic cylinder manipulation and mounting.

Fully automatic or remotely operated operation through the Joybot portable console with no human intervention underneath the ladle.

MOULD

Powder feeding.

Q-CAST LADLE MOULD

Automatic casting powder dosage and feeding in continuous casting machines with up to four different hoppers.
Optional cast-eye sensor-camera to check the powder thickness and bath coverage.

TAG MARK

Tag, Mark, Punch.

Q-CAST TAG

Automatic tagging system with fully customizable metal labels resistant up to 850°C welded (with/without pins) on billets, blooms, beam blanks on the cooling plate; complete products traceability

Green project® - qualified Danieli partner - marking & reading systems technology.

TAG MARK

TAG

BUNDLE

Automatic label welding system for bundled rods; a 3d vision system is used to identify the "best" bar for label application.

COIL

Label clip holding system fixed on the coil strap; a 3d vision system identifies the "best" point for label placing.

Complete products traceability.

MARK

Q-ROLL MARK

Automatic paint spray marking system in multi (dot matrix) or mono (handwritten-like characters) version for flat products; complete products traceability

Green project® - qualified Danieli partner - marking & reading systems technology.

DESTRAP

Q-ROLL DESTRAP

Automatic system for strap removal from steel coils, profiles or tube bundles; a 3d video system is used to identify number and position of straps that are cut with a dedicate pneumatic scissor and winded, compacted and ejected as scraps.

DEBURR

Q-ROLL DEBURR

Stand-alone robotic cell proposed with different custom designs ranging from billets chamfering to heavy blooms deburring and from saw-generated burr to heavy cutting torch effect.

A 3d vision system allows the robot to identify and follow edges even in unknown position.

SAMPLE PREPARATION

Q-ROLL SAMPLE PREPARATION

Stand-alone fully automatic cell with 2-cooperating robots cell for master samples cutting, deburring and marking downstream the rolling mill area.

Positioning and shape of the masters are automatically detected to perform the sample withdrawal and deliver with no auxiliary pusher system or manipulator.
The solution can be customized and adapts to existing layouts without any mechanical modification.

SKIM

Q-ZINC SKIM

Automatic skimming and dross removal system for zinc baths.
A continuous cyclic passing across the surface of the zinc driven by a control system that adapts the skimming speed to the dross production amount in compliance with the bath level.

INGOT

Q-ZINC INGOT

Automatic feeding of the zinc pot with zinc and aluminum ingots or jumbo premixed ingots.
Automatic control of zinc pot receipe and Zn-Al consumption, level control, reduction of waves during ingot loading, overall reduction of dross production.

DESTRAP

Q-ZINC DESTRAP

Automatic system for strap removal from ingots palletts; a 3d video system is used to identify number and position of straps that are cut with a dedicate pneumatic scissor and winded, compacted and ejected as scraps.