The PMMI (Packing Machinery Factory Organization) has identified key operational improvements that can be attributed to robotics.
Some of these improvements involve human factors such as eliminating repetitive tasks, helping to improve safety and efficiency, reducing labor costs, and improving quality and consistency.
While a complete automation solution may not be suitable for all businesses, industrial robotic machinery and components can be added as needed, and customized and extended as required. enterprise demand. Here are the top 10 reasons to invest in robots:
1. Reduce operating costs
Robots allow you to reduce your direct and overhead costs, making a significant difference to your competitiveness. Take the example of energy. With no minimum lighting or heating requirements, robots offer a great opportunity to cut your energy bills. Current estimates suggest a potential savings of 8% for every 1°C reduction in heating, while savings of up to 20% can be achieved by turning off unnecessary lighting. Automation is also a way to reduce labor costs, with the added benefit of freeing up your most valuable asset — your employees — to self-implement in more efficient and productive ways.
2. Improve product quality & work quality for employees
The precision and inherent repeatability of robots mean that you can achieve a consistent finish for every manufactured product. Robots eliminate fatigue-related problems, distractions and the effects of repetitive and tedious tasks faced by workers. By improving working conditions for your employees with robots, they will no longer have to work in dusty, hot or toxic environments. In addition, by teaching them how to use robots, they can learn valuable programming skills and make work more exciting and challenging.
3. Increase competitive advantage
Deploying a robotic or automated solution can help companies differentiate themselves from the competition by enabling faster product completion and delivery while ensuring consistent quality.
4. Increase production output
Successful and agile automation improves productivity, resulting in higher throughput. This improved productivity can open up new capacity for new work, thus increasing volume. These improvements reduce WIP and increase inventory. Robots can be left running overnight and during weekends with little supervision, so you can increase your production levels and meet customer order deadlines. A robotic solution would require no downtime to rest, get sick, lose focus, or lose focus. Robots can now also be programmed offline, ensuring new manufacturing processes can be quickly introduced for faster production.
5. Increased flexibility in product manufacturing
Robots can add flexibility to your production line. Once programmed, they can be easily switched between processes, helping you to respond to changes in product design or customer needs with minimal effort.
6. Reduce waste and increase productivity
By using robots, you can significantly increase the quality of your products. You’ll have more finished products on your first run to the standards your customers require, while reducing the amount of breakages and waste generated by poor quality or inconsistent finishing. With products produced at such a high rate every time, you get a larger output. Higher productivity is also achieved through reduced cycle times and reduced scrap or waste.
7. Improve health and safety
Robots can easily take on the unpleasant, arduous or health-threatening jobs that manual workers currently undertake. By using robots, you can reduce the chance of an accident resulting from contact with machine tools or other potentially hazardous machines or manufacturing processes. They can also help eliminate diseases associated with repetitive or intensive processes, such as repetitive stress injuries (RSI) and vibrating white fingers (VWF).
8. Reduce labor rotation and difficult to recruit
The high precision required by today’s industrial processes requires the highest levels of skill and training. With skilled manual labor increasingly difficult to find and jobs more expensive, robots could provide an ideal alternative. Once programmed for your process, the robot is ready to start working without any costs associated with ongoing recruitment or training. Robots can also offer greater flexibility, both in terms of working patterns and the ability to handle different manufacturing tasks.
9. Reduce the cost of capital
Using robots to get to the production line faster, more efficiently can help reduce capital costs associated with inventory and work in progress. By moving products faster during production, businesses can better predict production speeds and ensure quick and efficient service delivery.
10. Space saving
The robot can be mounted in a variety of configurations to save you valuable space in production areas. They can also be programmed to work in limited spaces so you don’t lose precious floor space.