Material Handling
Project Choices
Motoman’s extensive experience in material handling offers significant benefits to you for your project.
Motoman is able to support projects in a variety of ways. For experienced customers, Motoman will sell robots direct to the end user who can take the responsibility of integrating those robots on their shop floor. If the customer has an existing relationship with a machine builder or integrator, the robot may be drop shipped directly from Motoman to the customer’s supplier. For customers who do not have a selected vendor with the appropriate experience, Motoman may suggest one of our Solution Providers for a project.
Many robot suppliers have decided that they do not want to integrate robots. Motoman believes that our integration business provides insight to customer needs and allows us to develop better standard products. For this reason, if a customer would prefer to have the financial stability, technical expertise, and resources of a robot manufacturer as their system integrator, Motoman’s Advanced Systems Group may offer the best solution.
How’s Your Imagination?
Material handing is the broadest of all application areas. Common application areas include machine tending, press tending, palletizing, part transfer, case packing and palletizing. If one considers just the range of machines that are available, the possibilities seem endless. With the largest installed base in the world, you can be certain that Motoman has been there and done that.
Why Automate a Material Handling Process?
Machine tending offers significant benefits for the machining customer. Just some of the benefits are:
Improved Productivity
- Robots are faster than people in many applications and can reduce unloading and loading time, which improves productivity and results in higher utilization of your capital equipment
- Unattended operation – In cases where sufficient parts can be staged for the robot, production can continue during breaks, lunch and, in some cases, overnight
- Reliability – Motoman robots are extremely reliable
- Reduction in Changeover Time – Programs are stored in memory and can be recalled quickly resulting in a significant reduction in changeover time.
- Robotic automation removes the inconsistency of the operator, improves production planning and reduces overtime
- The robot can perform secondary operations such as deburring or packing the product
Improved Quality
- Removing the human element from the loading and unloading process will result in reduced scrap and rework
Reduced Labor Issues
- Reduced training – When a robot is trained (taught) it’s trained forever. Training an operator to load product into a cell (when required) takes less training than to complete the process that the robot is doing.
- Improved worker satisfaction – Workers involved with robotic equipment will be better satisfied with their job
- Robots don’t talk and distract others from working. They don’t wander off and they’re always there when the next task needs to be completed
- Fewer workers results in fewer labor issues and avoiding labor shortages
- Reduced operator injuries and lower insurance premiums
Flexible
- Because of their flexibility, robots are easily programmed to handle multiple parts
- Robots can be re-deployed in other areas of your factory if production needs change
The bottom line is that robotic automation is cost-effective and the profit continues for years.
