Design of template handling in steel mill based on robot

The hot-rolled steel plates from the same furnace in the steel plant need to be cut as samples for quality inspection according to national regulations. Currently, the handling of samples is still manual, and manual handling is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, this article designs a sample handling robot system. The robot workstation system is constructed through hardware and software design. The system mainly consists of ABB six axis robots, end effectors, conveyor chains, template temporary storage racks, template collection boxes, etc. Use SolidWorks to create end effector models and import them into RobotStudio to establish workstations. Utilizing RobotStudio software to achieve path simulation and optimization of robots, solving the problems of collision and mold piercing.