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10 Good Reasons to Invest in Robots
Need help deciding whether adding a robot to your process could boost your competitive edge? Scott provides complete automation and robotic solutions to a wide range of companies globally.
Technological innovations have made significant progress in making production and distribution easy and efficient. Whether operating a small company or a big business, there are a number of robotic solutions available for performing a large number of different functions.
Companies that produce massive quantities of products will often need to use automated machinery and robotics in every stage of production. Articulated robots can also be used to package finished products and load them on pallets for shipping. Companies of all sizes also benefit from adopting industrial robotic technology in order to complete specific tasks that are too tedious or difficult for humans.
While a complete automation solution might not be appropriate for all businesses, industrial robotic components and machinery can be added as needed, and customized and expanded as business requirements dictate. Here are the top 10 reasons to invest in robotics:
3. Increased Competitive Advantage
Implementing a robotic or automated solution can set companies apart from their competition by allowing for faster completion and delivery of products whilst ensuring consistent quality.
4. Increased production output
Successful and flexible automation improves productivity, resulting in higher throughput. This improved productivity can open up new capacity for new work, thereby increasing volume. These improvements reduce WIP and increase inventory turns. Robots can be left running overnight and during weekends with little supervision, so you can increase your output levels and meet customer order deadlines. A robotic solution will not need time away from production for breaks, sickness, distractions or lapses of concentration. Robots can now also be programmed offline, ensuring new production processes can be quickly introduced for faster production.
7. Improved health and safety
Robots can readily take over unpleasant, arduous or health threatening tasks that may be currently undertaken by manual workers. By using robots, you can decrease the likelihood of accidents caused by contact with machine tools or other potentially hazardous production machinery or processes. They can also help to eliminate ailments associated with repetitive or intensive processes, such as repetitive strain injuries (RSI) and vibration white finger (VWF).
8. Reduced labour turnover and recruitment difficulty
The high precision demanded by today’s industrial processes requires the highest levels of skill and training. With highly-skilled manual workers becoming harder to find and more expensive to employ, robots can provide an ideal alternative. Once programmed for your process, robots are ready to begin work with none of the costs associated with recruitment or ongoing training. Robots can also offer greater flexibility, both in terms of work patterns and the ability to handle different production tasks.
As this list from ABB has shown, robots are financially affordable and offer long-term savings, plus a raft of benefits, including improved quality, increased production, efficiency, improved health & safety.
Robotic automation presents an increasingly attractive option for today’s companies looking for ways to balance enhanced competitiveness against tightening costs and spiraling overheads.
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