Mechanical Robots – Finding and Fixing the Errors

Indus­tri­al mechan­i­cal robots have been work­ing in fac­to­ries for 30+ years. They assem­ble cars, they drill air­frames, they pack bot­tles and they pal­letize pack­ages. They per­form dozens of weld­ing, mate­r­i­al han­dling, and removal appli­ca­tions for man­u­fac­tur­ers across the globe.

So, what is the draw toward automat­ing with mechan­i­cal robots? It is sim­ple – mechan­i­cal robot­ic sys­tems do a bet­ter job at these tasks than man­u­al oper­a­tions. They are faster, they are more accu­rate, and they have few­er errors.

Error-proof­ing prod­ucts are a big con­cern for man­u­fac­tur­ers. When prod­ucts con­tain errors, they could break eas­i­ly or cause acci­dents for con­sumers, and those acci­dents reflect poor­ly on rep­u­ta­tion of the man­u­fac­tur­er. Think about it this way – if you bought a prod­uct, and it broke or did not work, would you buy some­thing else from that man­u­fac­tur­er again? Prob­a­bly not.

That is why a mechan­i­cal robot is so impor­tant to many man­u­fac­tur­ers. With the increase in accu­ra­cy and qual­i­ty con­trol track­ing that the robots pro­vide, man­u­fac­tur­ers have less instances of errors reach­ing the customers.

These mechan­i­cal robot­ics are also invalu­able in food pack­ag­ing and bev­er­age bot­tling. These bot­tles and pack­ages are tracked by robots, and a very detailed log is kept of every­thing leav­ing the fac­to­ries. So, if a prod­uct is taint­ed, or it makes some­one ill, the man­u­fac­tur­er can track the pack­age back to the facil­i­ty, mak­ing it eas­i­er to inves­ti­gate and fix the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion problem.

Mechan­i­cal robots are also faster than man­u­al oper­a­tions. A mechan­i­cal robot can run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with­out stop­ping. Unlike human work­ers, they do not need breaks, days off or vaca­tions. This dri­ves down the pro­duc­tion and labor costs for man­u­fac­tur­ers, an advan­tage that they may then pass on to con­sumers. If it costs man­u­fac­tur­ers more to make some­thing, the price is raised. So, in the inverse, if it costs man­u­fac­tur­ers less, the price may be low­ered, ben­e­fit­ing the consumer.

Robots​.com, a cer­ti­fied inte­gra­tor of mechan­i­cal robots for Fanuc, KUKA, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and Motoman, has sev­er­al new and refur­bished mechan­i­cal robots in stock avail­able for cus­tomiza­tion and pur­chase. Many have the abil­i­ty to be fit­ted with sen­sors and vision-guid­ance sys­tems to fur­ther enhance the error-proof­ing and qual­i­ty con­trol methods.

For more infor­ma­tion on automat­ing your facil­i­ty with a mechan­i­cal robot from Robots​.com, con­tact us today online or at 877−762−6881.