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Free, interactive training simulations are now available online from Universal Robots. The new Universal Robots Academy is not dependent on having an actual robot on which to train. Anyone who is interested in learning about how the robots operate and may be programmed can access basic programming training.As unusual as this is for the industry, CTO and founder of Universal Robots, Esben Østergaard, explains, “... this is a long-term investment for us. We want to raise the robot literacy …

For Paradigm Electronics, launching an immediately successful new finish on their speakers threw their production estimates for a loop. Because they make their products completely in-house, Paradigm made some clever decisions on how to accommodate the upswing in demand. “In order to produce that finish, you have to apply multiple layers of lacquer and between each layered application, you have to sand and buff, sand and buff. There’s a lot of manual labor involved in that. The problem is t …

While robotics can make manufacturing processes more productive and less labor-intensive, many companies find that installing these systems is complicated by the integration of ­existing systems and making them compatible. The proliferation of the connected factory through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) drives manufacturers to digitize control, monitoring, management, and data. This trend lends itself to reduced labor requirements and downtime, improved efficiency and higher yiel …

Johnson & Johnson’s Greek facility required its employees to do very repetitive, boring work. To relieve employees of these tasks, the company installed Universal Robots collaborative robot technology to increase morale and allow employees to pursue more interesting work at the company.The robot would have to perform multiple complicated tasks including picking up different types of bottles, transferring them to a packaging machine and sorting them by product type. Johnson & Johnson i …