The automation control plays a vital role in attaining success for any kind of business. When you supply your first products with good quality and efficiency then the demand for your product increases automatically when it comes into the market and you start getting larger number of orders, at this point of time you need to increase the productivity in a large number so automation is required at any cost. The automation engineers are capable enough to improve the quality and efficiency of a product by using various techniques and equipment in developing an integrated system of hardware and software components and as they being the experts in program development and operating system can control the software side of the industry also but how many engineers can you recruit to carry each and every application accurately. Therefore, keeping this in mind the technology has become a little more advanced and has bought the industrial robots into existence. These robots are more persistent, fast, reliable and powerful than humans. They can perform any kind of job you require when they are programmed perfectly. The ISO has defined industrial robot as “an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator”. Which means these robots can perform multifunctional tasks and can be controlled by you as you want it to be by changing its program according to your requirement. They can perform continuously for years along with providing accurate results for the programming function that you have loaded into it as per your industries specific requirements. In this way they can meet the standards of quality manufacturing. Usually the life span of an industrial robot is 12 to 16 years.
These robots can be classified into three different types depending on their mechanical structure. Firstly the Gantry robot, they are fixed and work with a rectangular work envelope and they mainly perform ‘pick and place’ actions. Secondly the SCARA (Selectively Compliant Articulated Robot Arm) robots having four axes of motion, moving with x-y-z co-ordinate circular envelope and are used for factory automation. Thirdly, Articulated robots which have interactive rotary joints ranging from two to ten, these are generally used for welding, painting and assembly purposes.
The industrial robots can also be used with different additions such as ‘End effectors’ which are the end of arm tooling attached to robotic arms; they can interact with and sense the external environment. The ‘optical system’ refers to the vision system of robots, they are designed according to the digital input/output devices and it mainly performs the inspection of the products. ‘Motion controllers’ are needed to move the robots and position them smoothly and accurately.
Therefore, the industrial robots are the best alternative for those manufacturing owners who are unable to handle the employee’s emotional and mental excuses for not completing the work on time and want to accelerate the manufacturing of goods by continuous production along with quality assurance.
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