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need information on industrial robots. (spot welding, spray painting),

need information on industrial robots. (spot welding, spray painting),

need information on industrial robots. (spot welding, spray painting),

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why use robots.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of them.  Why would a company install them?

RE: need information on industrial robots. (spot welding, spray painting),

Lord Calvin

The advantage to using robots is to increase productivity and decrease waste. Robots have a extremely high rate of repeatability. They don't have the individual characteristics of a human operator. Robotics takes human error out of the equation, not to mention that they never call in sick or ask for raises. Remember, robots are basically like computers in that they are stupid devices and still must be programed by the personel that they are replacing. Most companies see an immediate decrease in rejected manufactured parts.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Dilligaf

RE: need information on industrial robots. (spot welding, spray painting),

Upsides:
 no sickies:
 repeat every thing exactly time after time after time
 don't get weld flash ~ bad back or object to bad smells
 lowish capital cost for long term or high volume runs
 can work in the dark ~ (just like the rest of us mushrooms?)
 can under take varied tasks if supervisory control system

Downsides:
  can require extensive safety and protection systems ~ they don't say excuse me first
  easy to confuse ~ just move the tool or the job
  sometimes jigging for the job costs more than labour
  don't forget inertia~ you want it to move quick from a to b then don't plan to hang real big weights on the end
  not so easy to tune ~ its a brave bloke who mods the program on the hop
  
regards Don

RE: need information on industrial robots. (spot welding, spray painting),

what are the classifications of idustrial robots?

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