For a long period of time, we have been able to see that the world sales of industrial robots have a considerable increasing trend.
Industrial robots have become a growth driver for manufacturing industries by automating their production in order to strengthen the industrial sector of the global market.
This continuous increase in automation has aroused the interest of industry sectors that want to improve their assembly and packaging lines and that therefore have acquired robotic technology and equipment, incorporating them as soon as possible with the intention of obtaining:
Achieve greater flexibility in the product packaging process.
- Increase productivity.
- Improve traceability.
- Reduce labor costs and improve quality.
- Adjust the shortest life cycle of the product.
- Achieve higher performance and quality with less waste.
- Use floor space more efficiently and economically.
Robotic systems can be implemented in different industries, processes and achieve great benefits such as:
- Access greater flexibility in indeterminate products and packaging, For operations with few high-volume products, hard automation is usually the best solution, because frequent changes will not slow down production speed o To flexibly execute the product mix and packaging in small batches, robotic technology is the solution.
Robots are used with greater demand in the packing and palletizing of boxes with frequent changes and / or production of small batches, that is why robots continue to evolve in assembly handling products of various sizes, shapes and orientation.
- Being conditioned to the shorter life cycle of the product. The short life cycle of the product and packaging makes it difficult to obtain an automated return on investment in an acceptable time frame. The importance of equipment and packaging, changes keep the production line fresh and produce several products on the same production line, this is how a beneficial solution with industrial robots is presented.
Over time, the return on investment (ROI) of automation is achieved with high-volume implementation.
- Reduce labor costs. The cost of robotics has been lowered, so activities that were previously only characteristic through manual procedures are now economically reasonable. In addition to offering a guaranteed quality and optimal traceability.
Repetitive manual tasks, such as assembly, packaging, palletizing, can be carried out by robots with high productivity and early ROI.
- Achieve higher performance and quality with less waste. The robot is accurate, reliable and efficient. Robots are used for equipment assembly, equipment testing, and terminal equipment packaging. With the included vision system, it allows the robot to perform complex pick and place and quality control tasks with greater efficiency and optimal results.
Currently, technology allows working within the same area with a robotic companion achieving higher performance and quality.
- Using the floor space more efficiently and economically, we are in a continuous search for solutions, robotic engineering is in charge of finding and applying them and as a result they have obtained more options for the industry provided by the same robots.
The robot offers great versatility when installed for example, a robot on rails this can be moved to any number of stations in a narrow space. The robot can be installed horizontally or upside down in the work area. They can be mixed and matched to create unique solutions. For example, in a work cell, three different tasks can be adapted to optimize space and production.
- Improve traceability. Traceability can be improved by adding barcodes, RFID or vision systems. The ability to assemble, select, place, classify, open, close, count, weigh, record, retrieve, collect data reduces failures allowing decisions to be made more quickly.
- Increase productivity, robots can perform operations quickly and beneficially to increase or decrease production. The small work area and many installation options make it easy to add one or more robots to increase production in existing production line space.
Industrial robots have unique functions and have various sizes and corresponding working ranges. It can be mixed and matched in almost unlimited ways to meet application needs.