RAD’s Spring-Loaded Compliance (Alignment) Devices lower your robotic maintenance and administrative costs by allowing you to:

• Reduce robot* programming time
• Open up part tolerances
• Decrease scrap
• Increase assembly speed
• Minimize part and tool damage caused by contact forces
• Reduce downtime and machine wear caused by parts jamming and wedging

RAD’s Spring-Loaded Compliance (Alignment) Device:

• Compensates for positional misalignment
• Is compliant in X and Y axes, radially (laterally), as well as rotationally
• Provides precise centering
• Offers no compression in the z axis – making it ideal for applications requiring moderate insertion forces through the center line of unit

Assembly Operations

• Positioning on an assembly line
• Aligning molds
• Locating parts in machines

Insertion Operations

• Placing washers, fans, or gears onto shafts
• Inserting bearings into drive assemblies

Operating Principle
RAD’s Compliance Devices provide allowances for both lateral and rotational misalignments. This compliancy allows parts to automatically align themselves upon striking a lead-in chamfer or tapered guide. RAD Compliance Devices function through a series of bearings and pneumatic pistons.

* can also be used on linear actuators, pick & place machines, and other automated equipment.