Side by side is a phrase that can increasingly be taken literally While industrial robots used to be confined to cages they re now allowed to work in the context of Human Robot Collaboration HRC The electrical colleagues of humans have also re ceived a new name The collaborating robots that increasingly often can be seen right next to the con ventional line worker are called cobots Their pur pose is not to replace humans but to relieve them of monotonous and physically strenuous jobs The fact that hard times are in store for the assem bly line at least in automobile production is attrib utable to the increasing customization of this mass product Henry Ford s witty remark that a custom er can have a car painted in any color as long as it s black has long ceased to be relevant Thanks to endless lists of options even bread and butter cars can be configured to become one of a kind Such levels of customization cause even the best assembly line to stall A modular intelligently con trolled assembly process using mobile robots in stead of a moving line to deliver the material to the assembly stations just in time can handle this in much better ways In the light of such developments the notion that of all things the customer s wish for greater variety might put a stop to the monotony of the assembly line at least in automotive manufacturing is in deed intriguing The author To finance her first motorcycle Hamburg journalist Wiebke Brauer ramp ADAC Motorwelt spiegel de and other publications spent several weeks as an assembly line worker a learning experience no doubt but she found that she had a greater knack for writing The 10 biggest robotics markets Source World Robotics Report 2019 China Japan USA Korea Germany Taiwan Italy France Mexico Spain 154 000 55 200 40 400 37 800 26 700 12 100 9 800 5 800 5 700 5 300 80 000 electronic components per hour from simple resistors to highly integrated processors are shot by the fully automated chip shooter with thousandth of a millimeter accuracy onto printed circuit boards rushing by on a moving line The system produced in Japan is deemed to be the fastest assembly machine in the world 38

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