TECO Mobile Collaborative Robot Granted Silver Award of Taiwan Excellence Awards
TECO
Electric & Machinery has once again staged a stellar performance in the
annual Taiwan Excellence Awards organized by the Taiwan External Trade
Development Council (TAITRA), with its smart mobile collaborative robot T-PAL being granted the silver award in the 31st
edition of the event this year.
The
collaborative robot boasts modularized design and open platform and can be
custom-made. Kao Fei-yuan, president of the company's electromechanical system
and automation business group, points out that T-PAL is a Taiwanese
thoroughbred, with R&D, design, and manufacturing all being carried out by
TECO in Taiwan. TECO plans to apply the robot at its factories both in Taiwan
and abroad before accepting custom orders for shipment to markets worldwide.
A combination of TECO's self-developed
collaborative robotic arm and automated guided vehicle (AGV), T-PAL boasts
modularized knuckle, which can be extended into a multi-axis mechanism, up to
six axes, for extensive applications, including factory, education,
logistics/warehousing, and real-time inspection. Able to share the same
operating space with workers in a safe manner, T-PAL is a modularized robotic
platform with high CP (cost/performance) ratio and reliability. TECO notes that
as an embodiment of corporate sustainability, T-PAL knuckle module and AGV outperform
peers in servo-drive power density and heat dissipation, boasting a compact
drive system, which enables savings in raw materials, packaging, and
transportation cost, in line with TECO's corporate vision of "energy
conservation, emission reduction, intelligence, and automation," meeting
enterprises' needs for small-amount, large-variety, flexible production and
automated process.
TECO
offered 12 electromechanical products and systems for this year's contest,
boasting over 1,000 entries, all of which have been awarded, testifying to the
company's R&D and innovation strength. The 12 award-winning items all boast
higher performance and energy conservation, including "smart drive system
for ultra-high energy performance cooling-tower," lightweight "IE5
ultra-high efficiency, energy-conserving permanent-magnet motor,"
"large bipolar rigid-axis variable-frequency smart motor," applicable
to wind-power and hydraulic-engine industries, oil refinery, and power plant,
"high power density energy-conserving matrix-type variable-frequency
actuator," boasting the world's smallest actuator with over 20% energy
saving, as well as "high-efficiency modularized large e-car
powertrain," "smart energy-conserving variable-frequency freezing
machine," "smart dual-power business variable-frequency
Internet-access air conditioning system," and "AI energy-conserving
system for chiller." In addition, there are a number of smart systems,
such as smart multi-unit blended application robotic system," "smart
precision-positing and navigational system for forklift, and "compact
smart digital-communications direct-current servo actuator.