Resolución de Autorización del CFGS en Automatización y Robótica Industrial y otros
The importance of the manufacturing sector in the countries' economy has been highlighted in the current crisis. All experts advocate strengthening a key sector that society needs as an engine of its economy and that in recent years has been under great pressure from countries with low labor costs.
The consequences are evident and certainly traumatic; relocation of many companies and what is worse, the disappearance of an important part of the industrial fabric. In this difficult environment, industrial companies face the challenge of searching for and implementing new productive and organizational technologies that allow them to face the future with a guarantee of success. Only a drastic increase in productivity that affects costs and quality will save the manufacturing sector and its jobs.
Innovation through the implementation of new technologies, the continuous improvement of processes through lean manufacturing tools and collaboration with suppliers constitute the three most consolidated alternatives. Its application and potential must be taken into consideration by any company that intends to survive and have a future in the complex economic environment we live in.
Within new technologies, automation and more specifically industrial robotics constitutes a strategy to improve competitiveness that has proven to be able to avoid relocation phenomena. In the US there are hundreds of examples of manufacturers that have avoided relocation by reducing the robot-operator relationship and increasing processes with automated machines. If the ratio in the US is 1 to 240, companies with greater robotization and high profits are 1 to 6. In specific sectors such as machine tool manufacturing, the installation of robots is being intensively promoted due to the increase in productivity that they can provide.
Robotization in itself has two clear initial objectives; reduce manufacturing costs and increase productivity. The additional benefits related to flexibility, security and quality leave no doubt about the profitability of its implementation. Robotics can make tasks simpler that until recently were repetitive, tiring, tedious, dangerous, difficult, precision or developed entirely by hand. The continuous lowering of the cost of acquiring an experienced industrial robot in recent years will cause the manufacturing environment to change drastically in the not too distant future compared to what we know. Plant operators will be technically trained workers with skills in new technologies who will manage automated cells. Its mission will focus on carrying out various levels of inspection, ensuring the flow of materials between different areas.