Industrial Robot
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What is an Industrial Robot Used For?

In order to stay in business a manufacturing company must be both productive and efficient. In fact manufacturing companies must maintain as many efficient processes as possible. Industrial robots integrated into manufacturing processes can provide an effective way for manufacturing companies to increase their efficiency and quality while decreasing their waste.

Implementing certain manufacturing methods involves reducing unnecessary steps, movements and other waste. In manufacturing terms, waste occurs whenever tasks take place that are not considered value-added tasks. A value-added task adds to or manipulates a product in such a way that it increases its value in the eyes of the consumer. One example of a task that is not a value-added task would be walking to and from a toolbox to collect the necessary tools. Eliminating these types of tasks from the manufacturing process can make a manufacturing company much more efficient and successful.

Even though an industrial robot could cause overproduction of products when running at full capacity, manufacturing companies will not typically run their industrial robots at full capacity unless consumer demand requires it. By running industrial robots and production lines at speeds equal to consumer demand manufacturing companies can be much more flexible with the products they produce. This avoids additional costs related to counting, transporting and storage of overproduced products. Industrial robots can provide manufacturers with many quality and safety benefits.

If a manufacturing company needs to change a certain manufacturing process the last thing they want is for industrial robots getting in the way of completing their orders. This is why several smaller industrial robots are used to perform several different tasks instead of one robot used to perform multiple tasks. This allows for much greater flexibility.

Industrial robots can dramatically increase a manufacturing company’s product quality and reduce the incidence of injury. Industrial robots are able to perform manufacturing applications with perfect accuracy and create a variety of products with superior quality. Additionally, workers are able to work in much safer environments while industrial robots handle the dangerous ones since chemicals, tight spaces and hazardous environments do not pose any threat to robots.

Bay Industrial Group specializes in solving complex manufacturing problems. The expert automation designers, project managers, fabricators and welders at Bay Industrial Group are highly trained and experienced to work with a wide variety of industries in order to locate and create solutions to problems in their manufacturing processes. For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

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What are Industrial Robots?

Industrial RobotAn industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator that is programmable in three or more axes. Today, industrial robots are used for a variety of different manufacturing applications including:

  • Welding
  • Painting
  • Assembly
  • Packaging
  • Product inspection and testing

Industrial robots are used in manufacturing because of their high endurance, speed and precision. For example, an industrial robot that is about the size of a person can quickly and easily carry a load that is over one hundred pounds. Industrial robots can perform this function over and over again for twenty four hours a day, every day, without failure. Even though they can be reprogrammable, industrial robots are usually programmed once and then repeat the same task for many years.

Typically the term industrial robot refers to a robot arm that is used in a factory environment for a variety of different manufacturing applications. Industrial robots are classified according to a variety of different criteria such as type of movement, application, architecture and brand.  The type of movement is governed by the placement and type of joints and linkages. Industrial robots with different types of movement include:

  • Cartesian Robots
    Cartesian robots can perform three translations using linear slides.
  • SCARA Robots
    SCARA robots can perform three translations as well as a rotation around a vertical axis.
  • 6 Axis Robots
    6 axis robots can fully position their tool in a given position and orientation.
  • Redundant Robots
    Redundant robots are able to position their tool in a given position under different postures.
  • Dual Arm Robots
    Dual arm robots are composed of two arms that are able to work together on a given work piece.

There are three main components that make up the anatomy of an industrial robot; the manipulator, the EOAT and the controller. The manipulator is the long jointed arm and wrist of a robot. It allows the robot to extend, turn and reach. The EOAT or End of Arm Tooling is attached to the robots wrist and manipulates the specific parts of the robot depending on the application that the robot was designed for.  The controller acts as the brain of the robot and provides it’s much needed application support. The controller runs the intricate computations needed to manipulate its EOAT in order to perform its particular functions.

Bay Industrial Group offers manufacturers solutions that solve a variety of complex manufacturing challenges. For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

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Whatever Your Automation System Needs, Bay Industrial Group Can Help

Automation refers to the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, aircraft and other operations with minimal or reduced human intervention. Perhaps the biggest benefit of automation is that it saves labor costs. However, automation also saves energy and materials and improves quality, accuracy and precision. Automation is achieved through a number of different means such as mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and computers. Many automation systems utilize a combination of some or all of these processes. Industrial automation refers to when these types of procedures are used in a work place environment, typically in the manufacturing industry. Benefits of industrial automation systems include:

  • Increased efficiency
  • Increased productivity
  • Less man power
  • Early fault detection and repair
  • Remote operations
  • Data for better results
  • Safer operations

Many industry experts believe that the future of industry requires an increased need for manufacturing processes to implement highly mobile automated systems. Virtually every industry has benefited from automation and some have even been greatly transformed by it.  Industrial automation devices come in various shapes, sizes and forms and a number of them can be used in large industrial outfits to perform a variety of different manufacturing tasks. All of these automated systems are simply robots with a mechanical body that is controlled by a computer. The motions of these industrial robots are highly sensitive through various degrees of movements. By using computers, they can even be made to understand complex things such as heat and pressure.

Today, industrial automation is used in many more places than simple manufacturing processes. After all, a single industrial robot can perform the work of fifty people in a single day. Companies can even keep industrial robots operating throughout the night and on weekends and holidays. This is obviously an extremely large advantage of using industrial automation. Industrial robots also tend to be more precise than humans.

Bay Industrial Group provides automation systems that meet the needs of all industrial operations. Their automation system capabilities include:

  • Custom Conveyors
  • Work Stations
  • Rail Systems
  • Balancers
  • Manipulators
  • Tray Stackers

Bay Industrial Group works directly with your company throughout the entire process from concept to full automation production. For more information about how our automation systems can help your business improve work flows and become more efficient, please contact Bay Industrial Group today.