Robots remove the need for companies to outsource their factories

Out­sourc­ing facil­i­ties has been an issue for the Unit­ed States econ­o­my for years. Com­pa­nies move over­seas so they can save mon­ey through cut­ting facil­i­ty and labor costs. How­ev­er, the new surge of robot­ics into the man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try may remove the need for com­pa­nies to outsource.

For decades, U.S. com­pa­nies have been mov­ing their com­pa­nies over­seas because of ris­ing land, labor and oper­a­tion costs in the Unit­ed States. By mov­ing fac­to­ries to oth­er coun­tries, these man­u­fac­tur­ers are able to increase their rev­enue while decreas­ing their labor and oper­a­tion costs.

Though robots were more con­sis­tent than human work, they have a his­to­ry of being expen­sive, and not as cheap as out­sourc­ing. Today though, robots may remove the need for com­pa­nies to out­source. Indus­tri­al robots are decreas­ing in price, and as their price comes down, so does the company’s oper­at­ing costs.

One exam­ple would be a fac­to­ry that oper­ates at $40 per hour of work in the Unit­ed States. A man­u­fac­tur­er may choose to out­source this fac­to­ry to anoth­er coun­try where they could save $10 an hour. But, with the new­er, cheap­er and more intel­li­gent robots on the mar­ket today, com­pa­nies could have oper­a­tion costs as low as $5 per hour of work, total­ly negat­ing the need to out­source. These smarter robots remove that out­sourc­ing need, while still improv­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and reduc­ing costs.

Now, man­u­fac­tur­ers have the reli­a­bil­i­ty of fuel costs and infla­tion rates in the U.S., while also hav­ing low­er oper­at­ing costs that keep their over­head down and increase their rev­enue. This means that as robots become more pop­u­lar, they may remove all need to out­source, keep­ing more com­pa­nies in the Unit­ed States.

Robots​.com, a U.S. com­pa­ny that inte­grates Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and KUKA robot­ics, has always oper­at­ed in the Unit­ed States, and sup­plies robots all over the U.S. Our high­ly-skilled staff works with cus­tomers to help auto­mate their facil­i­ties and decrease their costs, which may remove the need to out­source their facil­i­ty to anoth­er country.

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