Increasing quality requirements, shorter delivery times, falling prices, growing pressure from competition: these are the challenges faced by companies in the machine tool and mechanical engineering sector. Is there a solution that can meet all these challenges?
In many cases, automation with robots is the right answer: robots work with a very high degree of precision. Even with complex and heavy components, the reject rate is practically zero. They can work around the clock, and their performance is just as good after 24 hours as in the first minutes. In lightly-manned and fully automated production shifts, they improve the capacity utilization of the machines and reduce the unit labor costs. Robots therefore offer enormous potential. This potential is still used too little in the industry. But things are beginning to change.