SURVEYING THE SECTOR
inaccurate programming , leading to unnecessary material waste .
In specific sectors , incorrect manual programming could lead to significant volumes of worthless products . The automotive sector , for example , utilises various robotic applications to assemble a car , which can be made up of as many as 30,000 different components . Every specific task needs to be refined to ensure the car moves down the production line and is ultimately built at the end .
The green possibilities
It ’ s up to manufacturers to move away from a manual mindset . Robot offline programming ( OLP ) technology can automate the planning and design of a new robot work cell in a virtual environment . A welding robot can complete tasks with the highest accuracy and reduce the chance of any material waste being produced .
Looking at a specific example , a CAD file of a welding cell can be imported into OLP software to define the process of a circular part being welded onto a metal workpiece . It generates the program and verifies its ability to avoid any potential collisions , even allowing staff to run it at low speed to double-check its function before deployment on repeatable instances .
Manual programming of robots can take weeks to complete before the deployments are up and running . The ROI gained from the immediate deployment of robotic applications with OLP means that goods can be put into production
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