# Injection Moulding Robots UK > A specialist website from Oxford Industrial Automation covering robots, manipulators and complete automation cells for UK injection-moulding production. Canonical site: https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/ Company: Oxford Industrial Automation Telephone: 01865 416830 Email: sales@oxfordindustrialautomation.co.uk Service area: United Kingdom Language: British English (moulding) ## Core answers - Injection moulding robots can remove moulded parts and sprues, load inserts, separate cavities, orient components and transfer production into inspection, assembly, conveyors or packaging. - Common architectures include top-entry Cartesian or linear robots, three-axis and five-axis servo robots, compact sprue pickers, six-axis robots and cobots. - Side-entry robots approach the mould horizontally and may suit fast-cycle, IML or restricted-headroom layouts; top-entry robots remain a strong general-purpose option. - Six-axis robots add flexible orientation and access for insert loading, complex take-out and downstream operations. A cobot still requires an application-specific risk assessment and may require safeguarding. - Robot selection depends on the complete payload including EOAT, required strokes, mould and tie-bar clearance, cycle window, machine interface, safeguarding and downstream duty. - A sprue picker can be pneumatic for straightforward pick-and-drop duty or servo-driven for programmable controlled placement. - In-mould labelling automation loads labels, controls static placement, removes finished packs and can inspect, count and stack them. - Insert overmoulding automation can feed, orient, place and verify inserts before removing and inspecting the finished component. - EOAT may combine vacuum cups, mechanical grippers, sprue grippers, sensors, compliance and quick-change interfaces. - Vision inspection works best with a defined defect, controlled presentation and lighting, and confirmed accept/reject routing. - Existing injection moulding machines may be suitable for robot retrofit after mounting, envelope, interface, guarding and sequence checks. - Robotic degating can present a moulded part to a fixed cutter or move a process tool around a fixture. The required gate finish, material, temperature and cycle determine the process. - Post-moulding automation can include controlled cooling, trimming, inspection, testing, assembly, marking, counting, packing and palletising. - A complete robot-cell cost includes the robot, EOAT, controls, interfaces, guarding, downstream equipment, engineering, trials, installation, training and documentation. - EUROMAP 67 is an electrical interface recommendation between an injection moulding machine and a handling device or robot; it does not make a retrofit plug and play. ## Main pages - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/robots/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/robots/cartesian-servo-robots/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/robots/side-entry-robots/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/robots/six-axis-robots-cobots/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/robots/sprue-pickers/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/applications/in-mould-labelling/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/applications/insert-moulding-overmoulding/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/applications/robotic-degating-trimming/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/applications/post-moulding-automation/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/integration/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/integration/end-of-arm-tooling/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/integration/vision-inspection-quality/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/guides/injection-moulding-robot-retrofit/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/guides/how-to-specify-injection-moulding-robot/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/guides/injection-moulding-robot-cost-roi/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/guides/euromap-67-robot-interface/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/solutions/moulded-part-take-out/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/solutions/sprue-removal/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/solutions/insert-loading/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/solutions/component-separation/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/solutions/downstream-placement/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/solutions/conveyors-packaging-integration/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/about/ - https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/contact/ ## Enquiry information For an engineering review, provide the moulding-machine make/model/tonnage, mould and part data, sprue or insert details, current and target cycle, layout, downstream destination, photos and a short process video. ## injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk: robots and complete automation cells for injection moulding processes Often, provided the machine offers safe physical access, repeatable cycle conditions and usable control signals. A retrofit review should also cover take-out tooling, guarding, part presentation, sprue handling, downstream placement and how operators will set, clean and recover the combined system. - [Primary guide](https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/): Can an existing injection moulding machine be retrofitted with a robot? - [injection moulding robot retrofit guide](https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/guides/injection-moulding-robot-retrofit/): Related technical guidance. - [injection robot end-of-arm tooling](https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/integration/end-of-arm-tooling/): Related technical guidance. - [injection moulding robot cost and ROI](https://injectionmouldingrobots.co.uk/knowledge/injection-moulding-robot-cost-roi/): Related technical guidance.