Keys to Automating Material Removal with a Robot

Max Falcone - VP Sales Engineering, PushCorp, Inc.

While visiting factories in today’s competitive post-pandemic environment who are working hard to continue to onshore projects, there is a common theme among them all; a large sign outside proudly professing “Now Hiring.” In discussions with plant and production managers, it is often explained that there is a limited supply of people available for these jobs or in the case of many rural locations nonexistent. This leads many small to medium-sized manufacturers to seek out their first automation projects to fill these rolls across several applications. When this automation involves material removal (MR) or polishing, it isn’t as simple as mounting the tools used in the current manual operations onto an industrial robot.  It is further complicated by the fact that there is a limited talent pool of system integrators who have successfully executed these types of projects before.  Know where to start or what questions to ask is often a daunting and intimidating task. Throughout my talk, we will layout a road map of how to successfully plan, de-risk, select components, and execute material removal projects based on 20-plus years hands-on education in the robot automation business.  The focus will be to arm system integrators and end users who are actively looking to employ automation with the knowledge they need to expertly execute MR projects using the best tools and resources available in the industry today.

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