The two cobot families are designed to be intuitive so that customers do not have to rely on in-house programming specialists. This enables industries with a low level of automation, and customers can operate their cobot directly within minutes of installation without special training.
Sami Atiya, President of Abb – Robotics and Discrete Automation, said: “Our new cobot portfolio is the most diverse on the market and has the potential to transform jobs and help our customers achieve new levels of operational performance and growth to reach. Easy to use and configure, they are backed by our global network of on-demand online service experts to ensure companies of all sizes and new industries that go well beyond manufacturing can take advantage of robots for the first time. „
The expansion of the Cobot portfolio is designed to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation in four major megatrends including individualized consumers, labor shortages, digitization and uncertainty that are changing business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy. The expansion follows the division’s focus on high-growth segments through portfolio innovation and thus contributes to profitable growth.
Automation drives the future of manufacturing
In a global survey of 1,650 companies large and small in Europe, the US and China, 84 percent of companies said they will introduce or increase the use of robotics and automation in the next decade, while 85 percent said the pandemic was been. Covid-19 is a catalyst for accelerating investments in automation. Almost half of the companies (43 percent) said they are looking at robotics to improve health and safety in the workplace. 51 percent said robotics could improve social distancing, and more than a third (36 percent) are considering using robotic automation to improve the quality of work for their employees. Immediately, 78 percent of the company’s CEOs and directors stated that recruiting and retaining employees for repetitive and ergonomically challenging tasks was a challenge.
Cobots are designed to operate in the presence of workers without physical security measures such as fences and are very easy to use and install. In 2019, more than 22,000 new collaborative robots were deployed worldwide, an increase of 19 percent over the previous year. The demand for collaborative robots is estimated at 17 percent between 2020 and 2025, while the value of global cobot sales is set to grow from an estimated $ 0.7 billion in 2019 to $ 1.4 billion in 2025. The market for all industrial robots is expected to grow from ~ 45 billion US dollars in 2020 to ~ 58 billion US dollars by 2023 (CAGR of 9 percent).
The two Cobot families were developed to support companies in automating processes and employees in tasks such as material handling, machine maintenance, assembly and packaging of components in manufacturing, in medical laboratories, in logistics centers and warehouses, in workshops and in small workshops To support production facilities.
“With this enhancement, we’re making cobots easier to use and deploy, and providing real-time support to accelerate their adoption in organizations that may not have considered using them before. Our experience shows that in addition to the potential of new technology, the best performing operations harness human capabilities, ”Atiya said.
Users familiar with operating a tablet or smartphone can easily program and reprogram the new cobots using the company’s quick setup tools. Customers will also benefit from the company’s global industrial and application expertise, developed through the installation of more than 500,000 robotic solutions since 1974 and supported by the company’s network of over 1,000 global partners.
The new cobot families build on the success of the company’s YuMi family, which has helped companies safely automate critical tasks since the launch of YuMi, the world’s first truly collaborative robot, in 2015. Today, the company’s YuMi cobots work with people in factories, workshops, and laboratories around the world who do jobs like screwing and assembling electronics and electrical components, making valves and USB sticks, and testing Covid-19 – Run samples in laboratories.
Each cobot installation includes a starter pack that provides monitoring and diagnosis of the company’s health, as well as a support hotline, free for the first six months, to access Abb technical support that provides support in all industry segments.
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