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We need an alternative way of viewing the path of the paint robot in our paint booth. We view now through the window of the paint booth, which is not good enough. We have interlocks on the paint booth, but we need to get the into paint booth to view the spray path of the robot. There is room behind the robots to view. We are reviewing numerous guarding methods. We do have hard pins on the robots. What method do you suggest?

Some plants are using video cameras mounted in the upper corner of the booth, near the ceiling to monitor their robot paths. These cameras are even controlled by a joystick in the “control room” to monitor different robots.

Michael Jacobs from Applied Manufacturing Technologies | 10/16/2008

mjacobs@appliedmfg.com