Adding capacity usually means a new machine and a fresh start: new floor plan, new automation, new integration project. The Unicorn 5-200 Modular is designed so the first machine you install is still in production when you run several, in a cluster with shared automation and logistics.
Every Unicorn 5-200 Modular is made ready for robot machine tending. When your volumes call for it, the robot cell is designed to dock to the machine you already run.
A CNC-controlled 410 × 308 mm door on every machine gives the robot its own way in, so the operator door stays free for people.
The interfaces the robot cell connects to are built into every machine at the factory.
The FANUC LR Mate cell is designed to dock to a module already on your floor, and later to share handling across a cluster.
Modules dock side by side and are designed to share what single machines duplicate: tool handling, pallet handling, and material flow. Capacity scales by adding modules, and nothing you own becomes obsolete on the way.
The robot cell for Stage 2 is in development, and the automation modules for Stages 3 and 4 are planned.
A complete 5-axis cell with flood coolant, 78+1 tool capacity, and a FANUC 31i-B5 Plus control. It earns like a normal machining center from day one.
A FANUC LR Mate cell is designed to dock to the module through the 410 × 308 mm automation door and feed multi-cycle runs. How the cell works.
Modules are designed to line up and share tool, pallet, and material handling in one footprint, so one operator tends the cluster instead of walking between islands.
The cluster is designed to run nights and weekends.
A machining center earns nothing between 18:00 and 06:00 unless something keeps feeding it.
A dedicated 410 × 308 mm automation door, CNC-controlled and standard on every machine, gives the robot its own way into the work area, so the operator door stays free for people. Workholding is machine-controlled: an optional hydraulic feed-through machine table carries an AMF 6204IHA K10.2 zero-point interface, and an optional zero-point vise pallet with a Spreitzer HZS 120-60 A hydraulic centric vise gives the robot a gripping interface. An optional automatic rear door lets the robot reach the tool magazine. With 78 tools in the magazine and one in the spindle, sister tools stand in when a tool wears, and the Renishaw NC4+ Blue F145 tool setter (optional) catches breakage between cycles.
The robot cell is quoted per configuration, because the gripper, the part storage, and the cycle logic follow your parts. See how it is priced.
| Automation door | 410 × 308 mmstandard |
|---|---|
| Rear door for the ATC | CNC-controlledoption |
| Zero-point table | AMF 6204IHA K10.2option |
| Vise pallet | Spreitzer HZS 120-60 Aoption |
| Tool capacity | 78+1 tools |
| Tool setter | Renishaw NC4+ Blue F145option |
| Robot cell | FANUC LR Mateoption |
| Robot payload | 14 kgincl. gripper |
About 50% less floor space than eight standalone machines with individual automation.
About 2x output density per square meter of shop floor.
About 40% less capital for the same eight-machine production scale.
6 to 8 machines tended per operator, enabled by shared automated systems and line control.
These figures are calculated design targets from SIMUL's engineering models of an eight-machine production scale.
