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Siepmann is a medium-sized manufacturer of grinding machines. These are used world-wide by customers, primarily from the blade-sharpening industry, for knives, scissors and tools. Thanks to the good market for knife blades, Siepmann decided to replace the previously employed handling system of its own design with the faster and more flexible robots on their traditional machine series. 

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Solution:

During the operation of wet grinding machines, unfavourable ambient conditions such as high humidity, grinding dust etc. typically prevail. For this reason, Siepmann predominantly uses the IP 65 version of the Epson SCARA robot, which is dust and splash-proof. The Epson Robot System performs the following tasks:
-   Insertion of the blade blanks in the grinding machine -   Removal of the finished blades from the grinding machine and subsequent magazining

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Once this application was successfully implemented, Siepmann decided to build a planned new version of a grinding machine in such a manner that the geometry of the Epson SCARA robots could be utilized to the best effect. In addition to other parameters, significant improvements in the output of the facility could be achieved.

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