Test laboratory demos of robot product developments included MultiMove-which enables coordinated motion of several robots through one IRC5 controller for faster spot weld production wireless control of a material handling gripper doing pick-and-place operations and offline programming using ABB’s RobotStudio software to help simulate and test real robotic solutions on a desktop for later downloading to production. About 50% of daily robot production goes to automotive spot welding applications. The manufacturing plant actually uses robots to assemble some of the robotic system controllers and also to paint smaller robots. “The production system needs involved people to take part in the process,” says an ABB spokesperson. Depending on size, each robot typically receives one to two hours of testing during its build-up process. Production takes place in a “demand flow” environment, organized in 20 to 25 assembly stations or bays.
The Västerås plantincludes an advanced robotic test laboratory.Īll robots are built to actual sales orders (none to stock), and 2004 production represents an upward trend in orders, according to ABB. Production pace is 50 units/day in a single shift at the 250-employee facility that builds all of ABB’s industrial robots-except for painting robots, which are made in Norway. Nearly 10,000 industrial robots will be produced in 2004 by ABB at its manufacturing facility in Västerås, Sweden, as revealed during “Technology Day 2004” media tour in November 2004.
ABB’s IRB 6600 industrial robot exhibits extreme agility.
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