Preparing coffee in a continuous loop
The underlying assumption was that the coffee grinder would process around 500 kg of coffee over a service life of around ten years. To obtain correct test results, the test setup had to be as precise, repeatable, and fast as possible. After all, the results had to be reliable, and the knowledge gained had to be incorporated into future developments and improvements - a perfect task for a robot.
An enormous advantage of the LBR iisy is its simple programming. You can guide the collaborative robot by hand and teach it the desired tasks simply by pressing a button. Thanks to its intuitive handling, the cobot offers flexible application options and works precisely and repeatably. "The Cobot solution is an invaluable advantage for the flexibility required in a test laboratory. Other industrial robots with complex fuse structures would be out of the question for test series like ours due to the high effort involved, as the costs would be disproportionate to the relatively short period of use," says Peter Kopfensteiner, Research and Development, Appliances Division at Gronbach.
For the two-month test, the LBR iisy Cobot carried out 55,000 coffee grinding and weighing processes with the portafilter of the coffee machine in continuous operation. The fully automated process was logged, allowing deviations to be detected quickly and quality to be ensured.
An enormous advantage of the LBR iisy is its simple programming. You can guide the collaborative robot by hand and teach it the desired tasks simply by pressing a button. Thanks to its intuitive handling, the cobot offers flexible application options and works precisely and repeatably. "The Cobot solution is an invaluable advantage for the flexibility required in a test laboratory. Other industrial robots with complex fuse structures would be out of the question for test series like ours due to the high effort involved, as the costs would be disproportionate to the relatively short period of use," says Peter Kopfensteiner, Research and Development, Appliances Division at Gronbach.
For the two-month test, the LBR iisy Cobot carried out 55,000 coffee grinding and weighing processes with the portafilter of the coffee machine in continuous operation. The fully automated process was logged, allowing deviations to be detected quickly and quality to be ensured.
