Increases in Robotics

In the 1960s and 1970s, indus­tri­al robots were used main­ly for paint­ing appli­ca­tions, as well as some assem­bly and spot weld­ing appli­ca­tions. How­ev­er, through­out the 1980s and up through the present time, indus­tri­al robots have increased in the mar­ket expo­nen­tial­ly, through­out many dif­fer­ent man­u­fac­tur­ing mar­kets and beyond.

The auto­mo­tive indus­try was the first indus­try to real­ly increase the sales of robot­ics across the board. As the indus­tri­al robot­ics boom of the 1980s caught fire, fac­to­ries all over the world real­ized that robots made it eas­i­er to assem­ble and weld cars, as well as apply­ing the paint, coat­ing and elec­tron­ics need­ed to fin­ish them off. So, com­pa­nies increased the num­ber of robots they had on their pro­duc­tion lines, and some even auto­mat­ed their pro­duc­tion lines completely.

Today, oth­er trans­porta­tion indus­tries, like the rail­way and aero­space indus­tries, have begun to increase the num­ber of robots used in their fac­to­ries as well. Rail­way com­pa­nies real­ize that weld­ing robots are able to decrease the amount of weld­ing time nec­es­sary for freight cars, while increas­ing the qual­i­ty of weld­ing, mak­ing the cars stronger than ever before.

The aero­space indus­try is using robots for assem­bly pur­pos­es, but they have also increased the robots used for jobs like drilling and paint­ing the air­craft because of their accu­ra­cy. Air­planes have to be con­struct­ed very pre­cise­ly to ensure that they are safe for air trav­el. With robots drilling holes, those work­er errors decrease. Also, paint­ing robots use much less paint than their human coun­ter­parts, and they apply it more even­ly, which gives the prod­uct a bet­ter aes­thet­ic appeal. This saves com­pa­nies mon­ey on mate­ri­als, while increas­ing the amount of prod­ucts they are able to put out on the market.

All in all, the increase of robots in the trans­porta­tion indus­tries, as well as oth­er indus­tries, has been a pos­i­tive change for com­pa­nies because they are able to save mon­ey with­out sac­ri­fic­ing qual­i­ty or speed.

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