ONU provides Robotic Technology Center with help of Ohio Robot Company

Ohio North­ern Uni­ver­si­ty, one of the pre­mière pri­vate uni­ver­si­ties in the state of Ohio, now offers a top of the line robot­ics tech­nol­o­gy pro­gram through their part­ner­ship with KUKA Robot­ics, locat­ed in Tole­do, Ohio.

The ONU Robot­ic Cen­ter of Excel­lence, the cen­ter for robot­ic tech­nol­o­gy on the cam­pus, has sev­en KUKA KR3 robots that were pro­vid­ed to the uni­ver­si­ty by KUKA Robot­ics Cor­po­ra­tion. While based in Ohio, the par­ent com­pa­ny for KUKA is based in Augs­burg, Germany.

Five of the KR‑3 robots inter­face with PLCs and CNC machines at the cen­ter to sim­u­late a man­u­fac­tur­ing envi­ron­ment that per­forms load­ing, unload­ing, and part trans­fer appli­ca­tions. The oth­er two KR3’s are used for robot­ic com­pe­ti­tions that the school engages in through­out the year.

Robot­ic pro­grams, like those pro­vid­ed at ONU, are an impor­tant step toward pro­duc­ing qual­i­fied job can­di­dates for the future of man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy. While robot­ics and engi­neer­ing pro­grams have been around for years, these new robot pro­grams give stu­dents hands on expe­ri­ence that they need to be qual­i­fied for employ­ment after graduation.

Stu­dents who grad­u­ate from the ONU robot­ics tech­nol­o­gy pro­gram go on to become robot­ics and appli­ca­tion engi­neers, CAD pro­gram­mers and pro­duc­tion super­vi­sors in sev­er­al major man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies in the Unit­ed States. Stu­dents who become pro­fes­sion­als in the tech­nol­o­gy field have the oppor­tu­ni­ty for excel­lent start­ing salaries that begin at around $50,000 a year.

Some grad­u­ates of robot­ics pro­grams like the one at ONU go on to work at robot­ics inte­gra­tion com­pa­nies like Robots​.com in Mar­i­on, Ohio.

Robots​.com pro­vides solu­tions from sev­er­al robot­ics com­pa­nies, includ­ing KUKA Robot­ics. Our com­pa­ny has high­ly trained engi­neers, CAD pro­gram­mers and tech­ni­cians on staff that assist cus­tomers to design and cus­tomize the right robot­ics sys­tem for their automa­tion needs.

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