Machine Tending is a term used in the industrial sector to describe the “care and attention of machines”.
The metalworking industry, and more especially machining processes, is one of the industries with the highest demand for automated applications. These processes are repetitive and involve medium to long batches. As a result, companies want solutions that allow them to improve their competitiveness in the market by optimising repetitive operations and reducing manufacturing costs.
Collaborative robots have been proposed as the most successful option for automating production lines, such as presses, machining centres, or any other form of automation.
Collaborative robots are relatively simple to install and program, even for operators with no prior knowledge of robotics, and they adapt perfectly to changing benchmarks.
Company managers are fully committed to the health and integrity of their workers. Freeing them from repetitive, tedious and burdensome work to relocate them to other processes where they provide greater value is within the reach of organisations if we allow robots to work like machines. Today we must go beyond simply increasing the performance of our productions and make the most of the benefits that technology offers us.
Industry 4.0 technology is associated with increased productivity and product quality, but it also informs the labour transition. Industry 4.0 is associated with increased efficiency and product quality, but it is also about the transformation of work. Universal Robots was the first company to build robotic arms that allow a robot and a human to work “side by side”. It did this by using force sensors that cause the robot to stop at the first sign of contact.
Without the need for major investment, industry has been transformed by the technological revolution. The automation of the loading and unloading of parts from presses, press brakes and, in general, any type of CNC machine is within the reach of any business, with a return on investment of little more than a year depending on the particulars of each process.
Cobots reduce the need to enclose after risk assessment, as well as moving people away from moving machine parts and risk points. Cobot management, rather than attending to CNC, injection moulding and press brake machines, increases worker satisfaction and value.
Because cobots only need to be trained once per product, process and machine, throughput and product quality are improved. As a result of the improved throughput, finished product costs are reduced.
Installing a UR cobot on a mobile base increases the speed and flexibility of automation implementations throughout manufacturing facilities.
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