This year RobotWorx is investing in the local community and the next generation with a donation to the Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio (JANCO).
JANCO is a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping students in grades K-12 with life skills. It offers hands-on programming that targets three things: workforce readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.
Food and beverage companies are using food robots to better meet sanitation standards and production needs for primary packaging and processing. At the upstream production stage, food robots come in direct contact with the food - handling pastries, slicing and butchering meats, dispensing icing, packing cookies, and more.
Advancements in robotic vision, robot design, and EOAT have made it possible for robots to work this closely with food.
Let's hear it for good beginnings! Robot unit sales experienced a steady increase last year and this trend has continued throughout the first three months of 2011.
The RIA recently released the 2011 first quarter statistical report, proclaiming 2011 "their best opening quarter since 2007." The robot unit data was gathered from North American robotics companies.
Until recently, industrial robots have been relative strangers to the warehouse distribution industry. But new developments in robot technology, specifically robotic software, vision systems, sensors, and EOAT, have brought about a new era.
Thanks to these advancements, robots are now capable of offering distribution companies much more intelligent and flexible solutions.
The warehousing industry has been quick to embrace the new and improved robotic technology.
As alternative methods of producing energy become increasingly sought-after, production must keep pace. For alternative energy industries to survive and thrive, they must increase their reliance on the industrial robot.
"The growing demand in alternative energy sources after the recent nuclear catastrophe in Japan will push robot installations, e.g. the production of solar cells etc." - International Federation of Robotics (www.ifr.
Recent data reports from The International Federation of Robotics indicate a very bright future for the robotics industry.
Robots: What to Expect in 2011 and 2012
Even after a threat analysis that took into consideration changes due to the crisis in Japan, the IFR's predictions for 2011 and 2012 remain extremely positive. In fact, robot sales are expected to increase by nearly 20% over the course of the next two years.
2010 statistics released by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) underscore the reality that more and more companies both in North America and abroad are realizing their need for industrial automation. Last year alone, combined robot orders totaled 29,034. Their total value is $1.839 billion. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Industrial automation presents today's manufacturers with a host of unbeatable benefits. Here are the top five reasons to automate with robots or other automated equipment.
1) Increased Productivity
The entire purpose behind industrial automation is to increase productivity while maintaining quality. Industrial automation such as robotic systems allows companies to achieve faster cycle times, greater efficiency, and repeatability.
RobotWorx CEO Keith Wanner is a firm supporter of his alma mater The Ohio State University (OSU). He is also an enthusiastic advocate of science education. A new building project on the OSU Marion campus offered the perfect opportunity to promote both.
Wanner recently presented OSU at Marion with a $50,000 donation to be used towards the construction of a new science building. Ground breaking for OSU Marion's science center is tentatively scheduled for 2012.
