Automotive Industry Bolsters New Robot Sales

The auto­mo­tive indus­try has always led the mar­ket in the use of robot­ics for car assem­bly, weld­ing, etc. Now, after a bit of a plunge, the North Amer­i­can auto­mo­tive indus­try is bounc­ing back with record new robot sales.

Accord­ing to an arti­cle from autonews​.com, 2012 was the strongest year for new robot­ic sales so far for the North Amer­i­can indus­try. The auto indus­try now accounts for almost two-thirds of all robot­ic sales in the Unit­ed States, Cana­da and Mexico.

The arti­cle stat­ed that it is not just the top-tiered auto­mo­tive com­pa­nies that are deep into these new robot sales today. Any car man­u­fac­tur­er is like­ly to be auto­mat­ed, big and small. These com­pa­nies bought almost 8500 robots last year, which is almost dou­ble the new robot sales from 2011.

Auto­mo­tive com­pa­nies, along with oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­tries, are turn­ing to robot automa­tion not only for speed and pre­ci­sion, but also because of a lack of work­ers. Accord­ing to the arti­cle, there is a myth that man­u­fac­tur­ing is dead, and peo­ple do not tend to want to pur­sue man­u­fac­tur­ing as a job or career, leav­ing a void in the job market.

How­ev­er, man­u­fac­tur­ing today is not as labor-inten­sive and haz­ardous as it has been in past decades, and because of new robot­ic sales, work­ers are able to learn new skills by learn­ing to work with these robots in the fac­to­ry envi­ron­ment. By inte­grat­ing robot automa­tion in with human work­ers, the human work­ers become more pro­duc­tive over­all, increas­ing the factory’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and decreas­ing com­pa­ny costs.

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