Playing It Safe With Material Handling Robots

Paired with prop­er safe­ty options, mate­r­i­al han­dling robots take a load off your workers. 

Gone are the days where you have to wor­ry about the repet­i­tive or stren­u­ous man­u­al labor tasks that cause body aches, pains, or worse for your work­ers. Mate­r­i­al han­dling robots, in con­junc­tion with spe­cif­ic robot­ic safe­ty options, can sig­nif­i­cant­ly lim­it injury and increase safe­ty around the workplace. 

Mate­r­i­al han­dling robots can be employed to pack­age, trans­fer parts, and pal­letize tasks that are haz­ardous to humans. Work­ers quick­ly become super­vi­sors where they no longer have to per­form dan­ger­ous appli­ca­tions in haz­ardous set­tings. In addi­tion, the employ­ers also get huge finan­cial sav­ings with few­er health­care and insur­ance con­cerns for the workers.

In order for these mate­r­i­al han­dling robots to work effec­tive­ly and safe­ly, work­ers need to be trained on these robot mate­r­i­al han­dling sys­tems and learn the pre­cau­tions to take to stay safe dur­ing robot­ic mate­r­i­al han­dling appli­ca­tions.

A safe­ty train­ing ses­sion is all that is nec­es­sary to make sure that work­ers are aware and edu­cat­ed on robot­ic safe­ty. This will save man­u­fac­tur­ers from pos­si­ble injuries and pro­duc­tion slow­downs lat­er down the road. Train­ing is offered by Robot­worx on all of the mate­r­i­al han­dling robots pur­chased.

There are a vari­ety of safe­ty guard options that Robots​.com, a cer­ti­fied inte­gra­tor of Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, and KUKA robot­ic prod­ucts, offers to con­sumers. Mate­r­i­al han­dling robot­ic work cells and indus­tri­al arms com­plete their tasks fast and with tremen­dous force. They can be dan­ger­ous to work­ers if they are not prop­er­ly guarded.

There are phys­i­cal bar­ri­er options such as fenc­ing and dividers that help to add a phys­i­cal bar­ri­er and perime­ter around the robot and cur­tains that aid in debris and arc glare protection.

There are also invis­i­ble bar­ri­ers like light cur­tains and area scan­ners. SICK makes a vari­ety of cost –effec­tive light cur­tains and area scan­ners used by Robots​.com in sev­er­al of their work cells and robot sys­tems. They both pro­tect the access point for the entry point of the robot sys­tem and come in many sizes with dif­fer­ent resis­tance variants.

Are you con­sid­er­ing automa­tion for your mate­r­i­al han­dling prac­tices? If so, con­tact Robots​.com at 877−762−6881 and work with our team of sales­peo­ple, engi­neers and design­ers to cus­tomize a mate­r­i­al han­dling robot­ic sys­tem to meet your needs.