Rob wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:55 am
I watched this video about 8 years ago and gave myself a 10 year plan to get one..
I think I'm still 10 years away lol
Over the years I've quoted at least a dozen projects that would incorporate robots and have not gotten a single one of them. In my experience it is the rare case that a robot makes more sense than a significant less expensive combination of other systems.
Where I find robots "Fit" are in situations that contain complex movements with relatively low loads in situations where complexity of reach and motion are changed enough that other less adaptive machines would not be able to fit.
For instance if I owned a company that was making a lot of the things you showed, even if they were different sizes, shapes etc I'd probably look at a 5-6 axis gantry CNC that would have cut that in a quarter of the time probably.
That being said I'll be going to a Robot conference a week from today. We are looking at outfitting some of our manufacturing cells with robots, which is not a bad fit. Load and unload 3-4 CNC machines that are doing multiple sizes on multiple holding fixtures etc...you know, replacing humans kinda stuff
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