Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd. supplies UR cobots.

Universal Robots (UR) has changed the face of industrial automation forever with its collaborative robot arms, or “cobots”, available from Canada’s leader in cobot technology, Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd. These lightweight, flexible robot arms reinvent manufacturing by offering all the benefits of advanced robotic automation without the high costs of traditional robots – leading to a quick return on investment. Companies in more than 40 countries rely on these amazing tools.

An affordable, innovative solution

Designed to share workspaces with human workers to make automation easier, UR’s flexible robot arms are an affordable, innovative solution for applications in many sectors – used even for small-batch production runs and mixed product assembly. More than 31,000 cobots have been sold around the globe to date.

Investing in these flexible robot arms from Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd. yield four primary benefits:

• Easy programming. UR’s patented technology allows users to set up and operate cobots quickly and easily – even if they have no programming experience. The user can move the robot arm to desired waypoints with the intuitive, three-dimensional visualization and the arrow keys on the touchscreen tablet.
• Fast setup. Typical cobot setup time is only half a day, which lowers deployment time from weeks to hours. Even an untrained operator can unpack the robot arm, mount it into position, and program its first simple task in less than one hour.
• Flexible automation. While a typical automation robot can do only one task, these lightweight, space-saving cobots are easy to re-deploy to multiple applications without altering production layout. Users can quickly and easily move the cobot to a new process, with the agility to automate small batch runs and frequent line changeovers.
• Safe collaboration. This is arguably the most important advantage. Businesses can rely on cobots for dirty, dangerous, or dull jobs to reduce the chances of injuries to human workers, including repetitive strain injuries. Eighty per cent of UR cobots work without any safety guarding, following a risk-assessment process, and TÜV (the German Technical Inspection Association) has approved and certified their safety system.

To learn more, contact Advanced Motion & Controls.