суббота, 3 марта 2012 г.

Automation replacement: Robots; as manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce floor space and increase flexibility, robots are being used to replace conventional automation.(FEATURE)

Often, robots are thought of as devices that can do things that people can do, too. Like spot welding or machine loading. Not that people would necessarily want to wield spot welding guns or heft workpieces all day long. But Joe Gazzarato, director of Engineering for the Body Shop Product Execution Group at Fanuc Robotics (www.fanucroboties. com; Auburn Hills, MI), who observes, "People talk about reducing the cost of manufacturing a product and using lower cost labor-there's nothing lower cost than automation," suggests that there are other ways of using robots that actually compete with ... automation.

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One of the areas that Gazzarato deals with is spot welding. One of the developments he's seeing is the utilization of robots not only to handle spot welding guns, but to handle workpieces, as …

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