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Automation Strategies for Sustainability & Manufacturing Challenges
Rising energy prices and environmental concerns have put industrial enterprises under significant pressure. To tackle these challenges, companies should consider exploring automation strategies as part of their sustainability strategy. Moreover,…
Can Automation Address Worker and Skills Shortages?
For many manufacturers, the prospect of an automated, human-free factory feels light years away. Will Industry 4.0 and IIoT be effective in changing the way we work, and can…
2021 UK Robot Market Report Highlights Need for Investing
A new report, from the International Federation of Robotics, on the industrial robot market provides information for UK manufacturers to consider about their competitors. Moreover, the report from the International Federation of Robotics compares…
Getting Closer To Robots Improves Safety & Productivity
Over recent years, robots have simplified social distancing and allowed manufacturers to protect human operators whilst maintaining high production throughput. However, getting closer to robots can…
Five Reasons Cobots Boost Production for Big Businesses
There are many tasks where robots can increase productivity and precision whilst relieving operators from heavy and repetitive tasks. Cobots boost production by being able to work alongside human operators collaboratively.
The scope of…
Assista cobots now with savings up to £8,000
The idea of mass customisation is that organisations differentiate themselves by tailoring products to meet individual consumer demand. Although an attractive concept, it carries with it an implicit reduction in batch sizes and an…
Selecting an assembly robot and where to start
A recent blog “Lessons for post-pandemic manufacturing automation”, suggested using robots for labour-intensive applications. Mitsubishi Electric’s Barry Weller looks at selecting an assembly robot that best suits your application and how to integrate it.
If…
The UK ranks 22nd and falling for production robots use
Research by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) into the world robotics market raises interesting questions about their use in the UK. In the table of robot density per 10,000 workers by country,…
Mitsubishi Smart Plus brings excellent AI benefits to robot users
The pace of development in small production robots is accelerating as new functionality simplifies both integration and operation. The most significant of these is the embedding of artificial intelligence in robotics systems like Smart…
Collaborative Robots: Convert industrial robots using SafePlus technology
In this blog article about collaborative robots, we take a look at how you can convert your industrial robots using SafePlus technology.
Mitsubishi Electric’s latest SafePlus robot safety system lets users upscale to a collaborative…
SmartPlus AI promises a robot revolution that will save you time.
AI robot maintenance may help address UK Government concerns that the UK has too few industrial robots. According to a recent Government report the UK has too few robots in relation to the…
