5 Steps for Getting Started with Collaborative Robots
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The document outlines five steps to start integrating collaborative robots into production, highlighting their ease of programming, compact size, and adaptability. It emphasizes the importance of identifying suitable tasks for automation, gaining team and management support, and understanding the benefits such as increased production and employee motivation. Additionally, it mentions that automation does not lead to job losses but rather shifts employee roles to more engaging tasks.
5 Steps for Getting Started with Collaborative Robots
- 1. WITH COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS 5 STEPS TO GET STARTED
- 2. Know what collaborative robots can do? Unlike traditional industrial robots, collaborative robots: • Are simple and fast to program by non experts. • Use a small footprint. Most applications don't require fencing. • Are simple to integrate for the simple tasks. • Can be repurposed easily for new tasks.
- 3. Identify potential tasks What’s easy to automate? • Repetitive tasks • Aligned parts for a pick and place application • Dispensing • Matrices and trays
- 4. Get the team on board with robots ! Did you know? The integration of robotics does not cause job loss, instead it creates a shift in tasks on the production floor. Your main goal is to increase production with the robot; you will need more people down the line to handle that increase. You will end up moving these employees to jobs that are more stimulating for them, so you will see employees more motivated about what they do!
- 5. Assess your potential applications But how? 1. Focus on the applications that are identified as ‘’Potential for Automation’’ 2. Gather data in order to make a sound decision on the first application to automate 3. Use the evaluation grid that we will send you at the end of this educational series on collaborative robots
- 6. Get management on board Closing the deal 1. Quality and consistency 2. Return on investment 3. Added value tasks 4. Decreasing injuries 5. Employee retention
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- 8. Olivier Grenier-Lafond Sales and Marketing Coordinator Robotiq olivier.gl@robotiq.com Blog FOR MORE INFORMATION: