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INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

LEADING MANUFACTURING MODERNIZATION

Industrial robots are the future of Indian manufacturing, where factories will have
zero labor fatigue, zero accidents, and improved quality and productivity with the
help of an efficient synchronization between man and machine.

Source: Magic Wand Media

obots have revolution- facturing is becoming a norm. process, accuracy, and flexibil-
R ized the way people These industrial robots help in ity. They have real solutions to

doing hazardous and repetitive
help people with more complex
used to look at their
processes. In the 20 century, ro- tasks which ensures that the tasks like welding, painting, lift-
th
bots were big machines with au- manpower on shopfloors is safe ing, moving heavy items, and
tomation. Now they are being and can operate and synchro- high-precision pick-and-place
used in varied applications in nize with machines, thereby applications. The first phase of
ATUL PATIL sectors ranging from Healthcare delivering precise, consistent, this revolution brought electric
Asst. General Manager to Outer Space. Industrial robot and efficient output. machines that performed re-
Marketing Department
Factory Automation & technology is gaining momen- petitive tasks without fatigue.
Industrial Division tum like never before and has These robots were used in the
Mitsubishi Electric India Robots and applications
evolved to new concepts of man There are numerous ways in Automobile industry and other
and machine co-existence. which a robot can be used for similar applications. The sec-
For achieving maximum effi- industrialization purposes. Cat- ond phase brought industrial
ciency, safety, and competitive egorized differently according robots that besides performing
advantage in the market, ro- to industries and applications, basic tasks also absorbed data
bot-driven automated manu- these robots vary in volume, to evolve and become better.

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