In the workforce today, finding qualified workers is becoming harder and harder, which is why companies are beginning to introduce industrial robots into their facilities. One application in many facilities is machine tending, where an operator loads raw material continuously into a machine tool, executes its program, and then removes each finished part until that particular production job is complete. This work/job can be [...]
Robotic palletizing systems are complicated. Robots are used in warehouses across the country to repeat the same function over and over again, which seems simple enough. However, there are a number of items to consider during your palletizing robot project, from scope to implementation. If you and your robotics systems integration partner don’t discuss the following items, you will have [...]
The pandemic has been over for a few years but manufacturers are still coping with the chronic labor shortage issues. Even back in 2015 Deloitte, in association with The Manufacturing Institute, projected that manufacturing would face a labor shortage of some 2 million workers by 2030, under normal conditions. We all know what happened in 2020 and 2021 which left us scratching our heads and [...]
‘Agile’ is a word that Mark Cuban used a lot during his interview with Breitbart last week. He noted that in order to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, companies would need to be agile and quick on their ‘feet’. Cuban suggested that industries, manufacturing specifically, will completely change - production will shift domestically, and we need to be ready to re-capture our dominance globally and [...]
Industrial automation systems have become an essential component of every modern warehouse. Advancements in automation have allowed warehouses to receive, package, process and fulfill products at a higher rate than ever before. And the trend isn’t going anywhere. According to ResearchAndMarkets.com, the warehouse robotics market is expected to be valued at over $25.80 billion by 2025. Faced with record-high demand and unusual consumer shopping [...]
Quick Hits: 20,000 Sq. Ft. Warehouse 3 RMH Robotics Systems 10 Robots 4 FANUC Demo Units Variety of Material Handling & Packaging Equipment Last month, RMH Systems put on our first not-so-open house in our robotics warehouse in Waukee, IA. This open house provided customers the opportunity to see our facility, meet our team, and better understand our capabilities, specifically in industrial robots and [...]
Find the Best Conveyor System for Your Distribution Center Automation As e-commerce sales continue to grow with consumers staying at home, manufacturing deadlines have become tighter and more demanding, putting extra pressure on production and the overall efficiency of distribution centers. Keep up with customer demands by finding the right distribution center conveyor system for your facility and ease overall stress with less effort and [...]
Labor, real estate, and safety are among the largest cost drivers that impact the operational budget of a production facility. Recently, companies have been turning to automation as a way to combat these costs. Here are some ways industrial automation systems can help cut warehouse costs. LABOR Problems: Unreliable, Unsafe & Cost Inefficient Production processes and manufacturing require significant human labor resources. On average, up [...]
Hytrol Conveyor Company, the third-largest conveyor system manufacturer in the country, wanted to automate their parcel bed manufacturing process (The Silver Cell). In Jonesboro, AR, unemployment is less than 2%, and it is very difficult retaining enough people to build parcel bed conveyor safely and efficiently. Hytrol has been a vendor of RMH Systems for 40+ years, so the relationship has been strong for quite [...]
from: Modern Material Handling Orders and shipments for industrial robots in North America set new records in the first nine months of 2016, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. A total of 23,985 robots valued at $1.3 billion were ordered from North American companies in the first nine months of 2016, an increase of 7% [...]
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