With the so-called 7th axis as linear adjustment, the radius of action of robots is extended and thus they become much more flexible in their applications. The company igus has specialised in linear axes over the past years and with this experience has developed a ZLW-20 toothed belt axis, which is ideally suited as a wide low-profile linear axis. This enables us to make flexible use of robots instead of locking kinematics and to realize stroke lengths of up to 6000mm. It is possible to connect energy chains by means of a suitable adapter kit. You can get everything from one supplier of suitable energy chains for the UR robots, connecting cables or the 7th axis
With our plug&play solution you can program directly in the URCap controller and control the linear axis.
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Lifetime of the toothed belt axes can be calculated online
Lubricant-free toothed belt axis ZLW-20
Up to 4 times larger robot working area due to linear adjustment with 7th axis
