Across all major industries, market pressures and structural costs require manufacturers to build more automation and increased flexibility into their production facilities. Individual plants must increase the number of products they can create while exceeding their current quality targets and optimizing their shop floor footprint. Manufacturers must rely more on robotics and automation systems to gain flexibility for more complex manufacturing operations and boost production efficiency.
There are multiple manuals and semiautomated processes during the different assembly phases in which humans and robots can work side by side. Indeed, the human element is an essential value-add for automotive manufacturing, as trained operators leverage their experience, intelligence, and decision-making logic to ensure optimal outcomes. At the same time, the repeatability of the robot leads to increased efficiency, reduced quality errors and a lower cost of failure compared to a purely manual process.
The new generation of collaborative robots is a game changer because they eliminate the need for safety fences and incorporate agility to perform intelligent operations. Gap and flush inspection are good examples. However, as a manual process, it can be costly and time-consuming.
Tecnomatix robotics and automation programming solutions enable work in both data-managed and file-based environments to develop robotic and automated production systems. These tools address multiple robotic simulation and workstation development levels, from single-robot stations to complete production lines and zones.
You can use collaborative tools to enhance communication and coordination among manufacturing disciplines, enabling smarter decision-making and bringing automation systems online much faster and with fewer errors.
