First ABB Robot Manufactured and Purchased in America

Two years ago, ABB made it known that a major indus­tri­al robot com­pa­ny in Amer­i­ca, Auburn Hills, of Indi­ana, would begin pro­duc­ing indus­tri­al robots in Amer­i­ca! ABB is now proud to announce that this com­mit­ment has come true; they are on track with the orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion sched­ule they announced at the fac­to­ry opening.

Hitachi Pow­dered Met­als USA of Greens­burg, IN is the proud new own­er of a red, white, and blue ABB IRB 2600robot. This par­tic­u­lar IRB 2600 is spe­cial as it is the first ABB robot man­u­fac­tured and sold in the Unit­ed States. The IRB2600 was pro­duced at the ABB Auburn Hills, Michi­gan plant a sold by ABB reseller CIM Sys­tems, Inc. It is the 180thABB robot at the Hitachi plant and will be used in its new home for mate­r­i­al han­dling of in-process engine com­po­nent parts.

The ABB IRB 2600 was a great robot to begin with as it is a pop­u­lar robot with cus­tomers as it will sure­ly increase pro­duc­tion on your line. The IRB 2600 has extreme accu­ra­cy, fast process speeds, and reduces over­all waste. Fur­ther­more, it includes True­Move soft­ware for ulti­mate motion con­trol that can help cut cycle times by 25%.

The pres­i­dent of ABB’s robot­ics and motion divi­sion, Sami Atiya, marks this sale as a huge mile­stone for the arrival of ABB’s man­u­fac­tur­ing pres­ence in the Amer­i­c­as. Atiya stat­ed, ​“It is a major step towards our goal of pro­vid­ing local cus­tomers with deliv­ery sched­ules and tech­ni­cal sup­port that are far supe­ri­or to oth­er robot manufacturers.”

Fur­ther­more, Chief engi­neer of robots and automa­tion at Hitachi, James Adams, has posi­tioned the robot in a promi­nent loca­tion to hon­or the pur­chase of the first U.S. man­u­fac­tured ABB robot and reflect the pas­sion they have for pro­duc­tion in the U.S. ABB robots have played a very impor­tant role in the oper­a­tion of the plant and Adams states that, ​“For a com­pa­ny of our size the vol­ume of robots we have is unprece­dent­ed. I tru­ly believe that if we didn’t have robots in our facil­i­ty we wouldn’t be in busi­ness today.”

Pre­vi­ous­ly, the ABB robots that were pur­chased in Amer­i­ca were pro­duced in Swe­den and Chi­na. How­ev­er, this will not be the case any­more; the future for Amer­i­can pro­duced ABB indus­tri­al robots looks very promis­ing with an expect­ed 75% of the robots sold to North Amer­i­can end users man­u­fac­tured in the Unit­ed States by 2018.

Fur­ther­more, ABB con­tin­ues to encour­age and push the growth in the U.S. as they also have a pack­ag­ing appli­ca­tion cen­ter in Bloom­field, CT, an assem­bly and test appli­ca­tion cen­ter in San Jose, CA, and a han­dling and machin­ing appli­ca­tion cen­ter in Hous­ton, Texas.

Robots​.com pro­vides Inte­gra­tion-Ready ABB Robot­ics and offers cus­tomers top of the line robots and cus­tomer ser­vice. They offer both new and used ABB IRB 2600 robots. Each used IRB 2600 goes through a rig­or­ous recon­di­tion­ing process, bring­ing it back to mint condition. 

If you are inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing ABB robots, our team of engi­neers can help cus­tomize a robot sys­tem. You can fill out our Con­tact Form, or call 877−762−6881 for more details.