These 3 pictures show a robot assembly cell for car battery boxes. the cell comprises of an ABB robot, a Krauss Mafai injection molding machine, a paletising system and a bespoke Sims assembly machine. the cell will run unmanned and only needs periodical intervention to load it with raw materials. the Sims assembly machine would shape straps for the boxes from strips of steel( these are loaded into the system about 200 at a time) then feed these into the system where they would be ultrasonically welded into place. there is also abowl feeder for the crew inserts which are also ultrasonically welded into the boxes. the system will process 2 boxes at a time with a cycle time of abou 38 seconds. the boxes are removed from the mold machine by the abb robot then loaded onto the sims system(see photo to the left). here they are placed on a 5 positionx-y table which moves the boxes around while they are assembled. when the boxes are complete we have a 2 axis pick and place robot that will remove them from the table and place them on a inspection fixture, where they will be collected by the ABB robot and either paletized or placed on a conveyer for operator inspection. the sims machine incorperates hydraulic bending of steel, bowl feeding of small parts, ultrasonic welding and 6 axis of linear drives