Go Low-touch with Robots and Automation

In the post-pandemic landscape, the pacesetters will be those who find a way to minimize touches.

With social distancing and heightened awareness of health and safety, mitigating the number of human touches upon everything is critical. From a manufactured component to a finished pizza, limiting the number of human hand touches on everything that is made has taken precedence.

How can you reduce the number of touches in your production facility?

Low-touch solutions will be unique to each company, with two things in common: Robots and Automation.

You can skip right to 3 Steps to Automate for Low-Touch if would like to know where to start. Or you can keep reading for some specific examples of solutions in action right now.

Robots

With robots, you can implement non-contaminating touch points along a production line and prevent cross-contamination during product transport.

End of arm tooling allows Yaskawa Motoman robots to touch and interact with their environment in safe and non-contaminating ways. One example is fabric sewing. A Yaskawa Motoman industrial robot can tend an automated sewing machine without contaminating the final product.

Autonomous mobile robots from Fetch Robotics can traverse facilities with real-time navigation systems, eliminating potential human-to-human contamination across departments. One example is moving packages in a distribution warehouse from one workstation to another.

Automation

With industrial automation, you can prevent contamination and improve production rate during final quality inspection.

A vision system from SICK Intelligent Sensors can perform inspections while eliminating the need for a human to bend over, breathe on or touch a final product. One example is the inspection of foil-wrapped candies before final packaging.

The time is now

More than ever, the need for robotics and automation is urgent.  If companies don’t adopt automation, millions of jobs are on the line.  And so are consumer goods, medical devices, paper products, packaged food, and hundreds of thousand other mass produced things that humans need and use today.

This is the new reality.

Learn how you can align your team with health and safety by implementing low-touch robotic and automation solutions.

Follow this link to learn 3 Steps to Automate for Low-Touch.