Robotic Bin Picking with Advanced Vision

I'm Spencer Rotel. I'm a vision engineer at Adaptec Solutions. Basically means I'm in charge of the 2D, 3D vision processes. And a lot of this right now was testing that Keyence 3D camera to hopefully implement it on future jobs. Oh, it's pretty cool. It's a 3D bin picking system, which means basically all the parts just come in completely random. The really nice thing about this is it gets rid of one more step in that hard automation process, which would typically be full feeding or manually loading some type of conveyor. But the Keyence program that we're using is really good for basically the troubleshooting aspect of it, getting the most amount of available pics out of the system. We were able to take using the Keyence One basically just that last 10% of products getting them out of the bin, whereas in a matter of running three, four, five bins versus some other types of products where you'd have to run maybe 10, 20 bins and hope that you found all the issues. The Keyence also comes with a really cool simulation program that you can use. So you can know your bin picker is gonna work before you even make the product. By adding the Keyence bin picking solution, we've actually improved our cycle time from 12 seconds to nine seconds. And that was basically just by getting more successful pick rates out of the bin. It takes basically a very simple, easy setup process. The Keyence is set up like a wizard where you just click through and it highlights in red, hey, this is wrong or you gotta do something here. So it's a very easy setup process in my opinion to go from, you set it up, you kind of hit start and it just works, right? It's these lots of different, like I said, infinite possibilities of how these billets could be in this bin, which now it's able to basically pick out this entire bin, which before you'd have to have either bin dumpers or bowl feeders or some type of operator loading them onto a conveyor. It gets rid of that last little chunk there, which really basically automates that last little bit of process that we're looking to automate. The Keyence and the FANUC actually use a really good pairing. A, Keyence is very easily integrated with FANUC as well as FANUC is able to take all that data from the Keyence really well and go to basically the points that the Keyence is giving, it's giving a very accurate point that it needs to go to. The FANUC is able to make those accurate movements. Sometimes it's five or six different movements to try and get some billet that's stuck under somewhere, but it's able to make those movements in that nine and a half second cycle time that we were able to do. If it were another type of robot, I don't know if we'd be able to, A, be that robust, B, be that fast, or C, be that accurate if we were going with some other type of robot pairing.