5 most popular applications of industrial
Industrial robots have been in use for
about 50 years. The first industrial robot was used for material
handling in a General Motors facilities. Nowadays, many different
applications can be done by robots. But which ones are the most
popular? Here are the top 5 applications for industrial robots:1) Robotic handling operations (38%)
Material handling is the most popular application with 38% of operational stock of industrial robots worldwide. This includes machine tending, palatalizing and various operations for metal machining and plastic mounding.2) Robotic Welding (29%)
This segment mostly includes spot
welding and arc welding which is mainly used by the automotive industry.
Spot welding is still more popular than arc welding but not for long;
as arc welding is becoming very popular in the metal industry.
3) Robotic Assembly (10%)
Assembly operations include: fixing, press-fitting, inserting, disassembling, etc. This
category of robotic applications seems to have decreased over the last
few years, even while other robotic applications have increased.
4 – Robotic Dispensing (4%)
Here we are talking about painting,
gluing, applying adhesive sealing, spraying, etc. Only 4% of the
opreational robots are doing dispensing.
5 – Robotic Processing (2%)
Processing is not a big segment of
industrial robots (only 2%) and this is probably because a lot of
automated machines are available on the market to do specifically these
applications. The main application areas are mechanical, laser and water
jet cutting.
Note : The data are from 2010 World Robotics,
a survey made by the IFR Statistical Department. It considers the
worldwide operational stock of industrial robots at the end of 2009.
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