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Two ABB GoFa™ cobots have helped a metal products manufacturer to overcome a shortage of skilled welders, enabling it to increase capacity and ensure consistent high quality to meet growing customer demand.

Can humans and machines work together safely, without the need to be separated from each other by safety zones and cages? ZKW Lichtsysteme in Austria shows that they can. Working together on a variety of workpieces on the production lines of the automotive supplier are twelve collaborative robots from ABB along with production employees. This not only saves money, but it also makes efficient

Tight cycle times are the order of the day in analytical laboratories, because entire process chains in the economy depend on a punctual and accurate result. In order to analyze a higher number of samples while maintaining a consistently high quality and to relieve the burden on the laboratory staff, Eurofins Dr. Specht Express GmbH automates its pesticide analysis with a robot system. They

Application:Assembly of aluminum die-cast parts at SUS Corporation in Japan Challenges:The company has struggled to find staff willing to carry out the monotonous and repetitive tasks involved in the assembly process. Variations in operator skills have also resulted in production falling below the company’s desired target of one million pieces per month. Solution:Developed using ABB’s RobotStudio®

A new car body rolls off the body-in-white workstation at GAC Motor’s Yi-chang factory every 46 seconds, thanks to ABB’s innovative body-in-white robotic automation solution

The application  Packing and palletizing of frozen burger products for dispatch to retail stores.  The challenge  Speed up the packing of frozen packaged burgers while also preventing possible injury to staff and automating the packing and palletizing.  The solution  Several ABB robots are used to pick up packs of frozen products, place them in cases and then stack the cases on pallets ready for

Two delta robot case packing lines and a palletizing line have helped a major US pretzel brand achieve a completely automated plant, ensuring rapid product switching and high productivity

The challenge:  An Italian recycling company wanted to automate a process that tests modems so that they can be reused for end customers. The process would free up people to do other jobs while improving productivity and ensuring consistent process quality.  The solution:  Working with ABB, the company designed a cell based on an ABB robot. The cell takes modems, identifies them through a unique

Imagine if one test could tell you if you were protected from the latest COVID-19 variant. An innovative robotic neutralizing antibody testing system developed by ABB Robotics and UTMB is helping to achieve this by enabling hundreds of tests to be conducted each day, with the resulting test data being used to assess individuals’ immunity against different strains of the virus. A key challenge for

A manufacturer of sensors for the automotive industry is using ABB cobots to ensure it meets the high quality standards of its customers.