IAI Industrieroboter GmbH
About us
Automation Technology for Over 40 Years
IAI Industrieroboter, founded in 1976 in Shizuoka, Japan, is one of the leading industrial manufacturers of electric actuators and industrial robots. Since 1995, the company has been represented in Europe, with a headquarters in Germany.
As a specialist in industrial robots, we have more than forty years of experience in developing, designing and manufacturing electric actuators. Our range of services is now considered one of the broadest on the market. The product range includes: electric linear, rotation, and gripping modules, cartesian robot systems, tabletop robots, as well as SCARA robots.
The corresponding controllers, with all popular many fieldbus connections, further complete our portfolio. Many products are offered in dust and water protected versions, as well as in cleanroom compliant design.
Our products are used in many sectors and industries e.g. in the automotive industry, in electronics manufacturing, and in the optical, medical and pharmaceutical industries. For quality reasons, all our products are exclusively manufactured at our parent company in Japan.
Products & services
Electrical Actuator
Electrical Actuator Future-proof and Energy Saving Automation Technology Efficient positioning, assembly and handling applications are key components in many manufacturing companies to counter growing cost pressure. Replacing pneumatic positioning systems with electric linear technology can save up to 90 % of energy consumption, which had been proofed in various scientific studies. IAI has the world's largest portfolio of electric linear actuators, from mini types, short stroke cylinders, rod and slider types to servo presses, rotary axes and grippers for almost all technical applications. They perform linear, rotary or even gripping movements in pick & place applications, for example. By far the largest share of the product portfolio have the high-quality product lines RoboCylinder and the single-axis-robots of the IntelligentActuator series. Both product lines consist of highly accurate electrical axes for a wide range of automation requirements. In the RoboCylinder series, the focus is on miniaturization and handling of small payloads, which is reflected in significantly lower prices. The IntelligentActuator single-axis robots meet significantly higher requirements in terms of payload, speed and stroke length. Other convincing advantages Compared with pneumatic drives, electric drives offer a whole range of advantages: they are insensitive to load fluctuations, enable smooth starting and stopping, simple speed regulation and the control of various positions with the highest repeatability. IAI's electric axes and grippers are also characterized and programmed by an easy-to-use control system. The sustainable energy efficiency, the significant cost savings over the entire life cycle of the production plant as well as the outstanding technical advantages in the motion control are the clear arguments for a substitution of pneumatically driven actuators by electromechanical IAI-systems.
Electrical Gripper
Electrical Gripper As one of the leading companies for compressed-air-free automation solutions, IAI offers of course a huge variety on different electrical gripper for all kind of applications as well. Advantages of electrical Gripper Like all kind of electrical actuators, also electrical gripper offers an absolutely outstanding efficiency on energy usage. In comparison to typical pneumatic gripper, energy reductions in the range of typical 80% could be realized. Another very positive aspect is very often the much lower noise level of such electrical gripper. However, the biggest advantage offered by electrical gripper due to their absolute free programming in terms of positioning and gripping force. This makes sure, that all kind of products whatever their structure, material or how fragile they might be, could be securely and safety handled without any additional efforts. Electrical Gripper for small and large Products IAI offers one of the largest portfolio on electrical gripper in the automation market. This portfolio starts at the micro-gripper with its 4 mm grab width and ends at the long-stroke-gripper which allows up to 1,200 mm grab width for huge products. Corresponding to these sizes, also the gripping forces varies fin between 10 N up to 400 N. The IAI portfolio is completed by new two-point electromagnetic lifting gripper which are available in two different versions. The smaller version of the gripper can achieve maximum grip forces of 10 N and in the larger version, 20 N. Both variants have a stroke of 4 mm with inherent weights of 160 g and 270 g. These small electric grippers require only one cable for the power supply and the sensor signals, which makes installation in complex systems extremely simple and allows for very safe operation. The electric grippers open or close in just 0.03 seconds. These highly compact grippers can be used wherever small delicate parts require safe, energy-saving gripping and moving.
Electrical Servo-Press
Programmed Pressure The economical realization of automated mechanical assembly and joining work is becoming increasingly important in many different industries. Electrically driven servo presses are predestined for such tasks in terms of their control options and precision. To meet all these needs, IAI offers a new generation on servo-presses which are available with thrust forces in between 20 N and 50 kN as well as stroke lengths in between 100 mm up to 520 mm. Precise press processes The force control required for the precise press process is included in all models by a load cell on the thrust rod tip. This load cell makes highly-precise positioning control possible, which means easy pressing force adjustment and position control. The repeat accuracy is +/- 0.01 mm to allow full and precise control of the full movement and positioning. The application software offers two selectable control modes: speed control or force control. Moreover, the stopping method can be chosen from four stop conditions – "position", "stroke", "load" or "incremental load". High-resolution battery-less absolute encoders The new IAI servo presses includes of course high-resolution battery-less absolute encoders. So, the new product series embodies all the advantages of this technology as well: no need for homing operations or home sensors, no battery maintenance and problem-free restart after emergency stops. Press systems for any application All IAI servo presses are ideal for precision pressing, assembling, grouting, fixing or rivet joining and for many other applications. Whether electronic projects, precision engineering or mechanical engineering applications – IAI's comprehensive portfolio of servo presses provides a suitable press system for any application.
Tabletop-Robot
Tabletop-Robot Tabletop-robots from IAI are precise multifunctional positioning and assembling platforms. Customers appreciate the rapid operational readiness without any additional efforts. Many different applications All IAI tabletop-robots are suitable for many different applications in almost all different industries. These varies from soldering and simple pick & place tasks, sorting applications, microdosing in biotechnology, assembly of printed circuit boards in the electronics industry, screw-in and press-fit in mechanical engineering to surface coating as well as different jobs in quality assurance. Several models All in all, IAI offers eight different models in his tabletop-robots series with working areas between 200 x 200 mm up to 500 x 500 mm. With a stroke of 150 mm, the Z-axis can also accommodate camera systems for vision-control and image processing and moves a total load of up to 6 kg. The cartesian system of all tabletop-robots could also be equipped by an additional electrical rotary axis to allow even more application. The memory capacity of the IAI tabletop-robots stores up to 255 programs, of which up to 16 programs of could run simultaneously. A total of 30,000 positions can be stored in the integrated memory. Up to 48 I/Os are freely available for external communication. Excellent performance The torsion-resistant base frame allows a repeatability of +/- 0.02 mm for the entire system. The maximum travel speeds of the individual axes are at 800 mm/s (for the X and Y axes), and at 400 mm/s for the Z-axis and around 1,000 ⁰/s for the rotary axis. All IAI tabletop-robots are programmed by using either a PC or a teaching pendant
Scara-Roboter
SCARA-Robots SCARA robots are often used for the fast removal and movement of workpieces, smaller assembly applications such as screwing, and for the precise dosing of liquids, adhesives and sealants. Cost-effective IXP series Adopting stepper motors in the IXP series allows much lower necessary investments than for conventional models. The IXP-series achieves a payload equivalent to that of conventional models by using high-output drivers. All IXP models are equipped with battery-less absolute encoders. Robots of this series are lighter than conventional models and they are available with either 3-axis or 4-axis with an already installed electrical gripper. IX SCARA-Robots for high performance IX SCARA-robots have the best performance in their class in terms of high speed performance, payload and positioning repeatability. In addition to standard versions, there are also ultra-compact models and high-speed types available. Special designs for normal and inverse ceiling or wall mounting complete this series. Robots of this series achieves high speed, payload and precision. The very easy programming makes these robots much more user-friendly and completes this with a wide variety of arm lengths, ranging from 120 mm to 800 mm
IAI-Cartesian-Robot
Cartesian Robots Systems IAI offers Cartesian-robots as 2- and 3-axis combinations, based on the well establish linear-axes of the RCP6-series. They are either equipped with a 24 V, or with 230 V servo motors in hundreds of different configurations as standard or precision types. All systems are compact, highly-stable units with a low weight and high rigidity. Each robot-system is delivered with the associated connecting parts and cabling and can be installed immediately in a production line. A wide range of configurations ensures that all the special requirements of every user can be met. The repeatability of all Cartesian robot systems is +/- 0.01 mm. The vertical installed axes can also be equipped with a brake, making sure that the slider is prevented from sinking down in the event of an unexpected interruption of the power supply. High-resolution battery-less absolute encoders All IAI Cartesian-robots also features of course high-resolution battery-less absolute encoders on all installed axes. So, these robots deliver all advantages of this technology as well: no need for homing operations or home sensors, no battery maintenance and problem-free restart after emergency stops. Small working envelope One of the key advantages of Cartesian-robots is their optimized working envelope which covers only the needed working space of the application. The individual combination of different length of all single axes, and even the number of axes, gives the maximum flexibility in designing exactly the handling system which is really and only needed. Complete Handling-Systems In combination of the Cartesian-robots with the electrical gripper and rotary-axes of IAI, it is indeed very simple to design complete compressed-air-free electrical handling-systems. Such Cartesian-robots doing a great job at all kind of handling applications, pick-and-place, palletizing or many other jobs in production, logistics or quality assurance departments in all industries.