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The end of Q3 2022 marks the third straight quarter that American manufacturers have increased their deployment of robots. The food and consumer goods industries saw an increase of about 13%, which has been attributed to a continual requirement to control rising demand for e-commerce logistics automation. In addition to accommodating new logistical structures, collaborative robots are being positioned to increase overall output while lightening the physical and mental burden on hum …

Manufacturing productivity in the US is continuing to climb as a result of more robots being more accessible, flexible, and simple to program, especially for small- to medium-sized businesses. Robots are frequently employed to carry out dangerous, unpleasant, and boring activities, but they also help to supplement human labor, streamline processes, and improve product quality for a competitive advantage. According to 56% of respondents in a recent manufacturing poll by The Boston Consulting Grou …

Some of the most frequent comments on our YouTube videos of collaborative robots are that they might be too slow for some applications. But we have to ask - does speed always equal productivity?Previously, while sorting products and packages into pallet loads for warehouse storage and distribution, producers used manual hand stacking. Pallet handling has been a vital logistical function for decades, despite its slowness and high staffing requirements. Pallets are now handled in a signi …

Improving productivity and ergonomics is a large part of what drove Bajaj Auto Ltd. to choose Universal Robots’ cobots to automate their assembly lines and become the first company in India to implement a collaborative robots solution. Due to the growing number of motorcycle models being produced, Bajaj needed an automation solution that could be deployed horizontally. The benefits of Universal Robots cobots were primarily an improvement in productivity, flexibility and relia …

In Pennsylvania, industrial machinery, food processing, fabricated metals, chemicals, plastics and electronics make up the majority of the manufacturing sector. Each of these manufacturing types benefits from collaborative robots in a variety of ways. Pennsylvania’s industrial machinery sector utilizes collaborative robots that assist with machine tending, which is the automated operation of industrial machinery tools. Collaborative robots are primarily used to load and unload, blow off, wash, d …