In Germany, 322 industrial robots come on 10,000 Employees: This is according to world-robot-Report 2018, the third highest proportion in the world. Fall away as a result of jobs?
With a robot it started 17 years ago: The Sheet member to put the parts in the machine and prompt the operator was able to take a second job. After Famag, a tool manufacturer from Remscheid, Germany, has automated its entire production. The Alternative was to relocate them in a country with low labour costs. Many of the Remscheid-based manufacturer had done. So Famag had to contend successfully against the Trend.
Because she managed it so well, advises the 50-strong company, in the meantime, other means tändlerin things robotics, and has developed a second leg thereof. Six employees equip New and used robots on the needs, the connection to the machine and train the workers for the customers. “We are credible because we know all the problems from my own experience,” says managing Director Thomas Pomp.
Small, round and kollaborierend
The robots are at Famag, as it is known since decades from the factories: large, orange, fenced. “A better crane or intrepid laser welder,” says the consulting firm Staufen.
Industrial mechanic Daniel Wagener programmed Cobot to use in the production of Young
Also electrical engineering-producer, Albrecht Jung uses such mechanical helpers for many years in the Assembly of large series quantities. The medium-sized company with around 1200 employees and 250 million euros in annual sales, manufactures intelligent building technology with a wide variety of light switches, sockets, guards, and Smart Home components, all “made in Germany”.
Classic robot, however, could satisfy only a single fixed task, and be costly to wait, so Mario Schäfer, head of production at the plant in Lünen. Therefore, the company uses more and more collaborating robots, Cobots, which are in the case of small batch sizes flexible, because you can learn several activities””.
As a pilot user, Young took part in research projects such as “MANUSERV” and “KoMPI”, in which the work processes in the individual steps are decomposed. A traffic light shows where the robot monotonous or arduous activities could take. The stated objective of the family business is not to replace employees, but to relieve.
Eight Cobots bags in the factory and the parts, screws or currently running in the test environment. They are small, round, lightweight, can be used alone, work with a human colleague, and also with each other gripper in the gripper. And most of all, they are not “behind bars”.
A harmonious Couple
The first shares since 2014, a continuous flow production island with a Monte urine. To a speaker, for example, there are several tiny Screws. “The Tinker’s fainted in the process, often times the wrench or it has not properly taken,” said industrial mechanic Daniel Wagener. The Cobot creates it more precisely, his joint is doing to the 500. Rotation is not hurt.
Wagener works in the workshop for maintenance and fixture of the Young. Before a Cobot may in the production, equips him with the appropriate grippers and programmed him with the things he has to do. He takes the metal arm and leads him to the various to be driven to the points. The speed of the respective work process. Man and machine must form a harmonious unit, and in the correct Tempo move.
Production of light switches in the case of Young
If man had to wait on the Cobot, suffering efficiency, says Schäfer. Conversely, it makes no sense, adds Wagener. “Why not run the robot quickly, if the Tinker is ready yet?”
While the robot is bolted to the part, the Assembler, the next piece, put the seal into the housing, adds the speaker, and makes sure the cables are properly soldered and the tool is not in your path. “It takes the human senses.”
The man is in the center
In no case is allowed to happen the people have a damage, a bruise would be too much. “That would speak instantly, and then he would be the evil robot. The acceptance would be there,” the industrial mechanic. Therefore, the workshop tried the Cobots as safe as possible: The grippers are made of rubber instead of steel. Where you are fiddling with the tips of screwdrivers, protect light barriers. And when the metal arm is approaching the people, slows down the Tempo.
While established technologies such as computers, networked machines, and Online unsettle platforms, only a small minority, horrified, according to the current Civey-FES-survey, 41 percent of German AI and smart robots.
At the company of Young technical innovations open: The employee can always look in the workshop over, the technology to test and give Feedback. “No one here is afraid. We will always be informed in advance and involved”, says works Council member Gabriele Czerlitzki. “The robot in the first line things for the fingers too hard. The mechanic inside makes it fun to work with them.”