Industrial robots increase labor productivity, but they also allow companies to follow sustainable practices, which reduces emissions and helps in ensuring the conditions for the safety of workers. Therefore, everyone, including adherents of ecology and social organizations, advocate for the development of industrial robots.
Robots are able to work quickly, accurately and around the clock. They are gaining popularity in many industries around the world, including in the field of production, construction, medicine and military equipment. Industrial robots are made in different forms, sizes and configurations. Their tasks can be different – the movement of objects, welding, assembly, packaging, etc.P. Unlike industrial automation, when cars perform one set of operations repeatedly, robots are able to perform a wide range of movements and actions. They can be programmed to perform complex and even intricate tasks.
Today, devices are developed in such a way that they are safe and interactive for cooperation between the robot and the person. Thus, in modern enterprises, people and cars work side by side. This is a win -win situation that allows people to focus on tasks that require selectivity and dexterity. At this time, robots at workplaces perform repeating tasks and tasks that require accuracy and strength.
The International Robotics Federation found that 200 thousand new industrial robots have established around the world last year. This is 15% more than in 2013. In the Asia-Pacific region, the sales of robots will increase in 2015 by 16%, and over the next two years, the installation of more than 2 million new industrial robots is predicted at factories around the world. Moreover, 400 thousand of them will probably be in China.
Whether robots will steal your work? Unfortunately yes. Experts admit that robots give a lot of advantages for industry development and even help to ensure the safety of the plant employees, but at the same time, they occupy jobs. Although it is also noted that in a number of regions, such as Singapore, where production workshops are located, there is also a lack of labor, so robots will help here on the contrary.
It is noted that robots are able to remove the load on companies that have to overload employees with duties. Staff will be able to focus on quality by performing single tasks. Experts say that factory workers may not lose their places with the advent of robotics, retraining to workers who manage robots. Moreover, industrial robots are quite simple and intuitive, so their management will not require advanced engineering skills from people.
