Robots and robotic devices. Safety requirements for industrial robots

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Robotic Devices

On the Implications of Automation in the Manufacture Industry on United States Residing Blue-Collar Workers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghav Sriram
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Robotic Devices ◽  
New Jobs

A study done by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics found that of men ages 25 to 54, 13.2% were without work (Eberstadt). The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) believes this can be attributed to the increased use of robots—specifically in the manufacturing industry. Since 2000, industrial robots have replaced 1.7 million manufacturing jobs worldwide, and of these 1.7 million jobs, 260,000 were lost in the United States (Robots’ 'to replace up to 20 million factory jobs' by 2030) displaying the massive contribution automation has had on America’s unemployment crisis. According to Workism Is Making Americans Miserable, blue-collar jobs produce tangible products such as coal steel rods, and houses (Thompson) allowing manufacturers to easily replace them with more economically efficient robots. When 1,896 experts were asked the following question, “Will networked, automated, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and robotic devices have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025?” Half responded that they envision a future in which robots and digital agents have displaced significant numbers of blue-collar workers with much-expressing concern that this will lead to vast increases in income inequality and a breakdown of social order. The other half believed technology will have not displaced more jobs than it creates by 2025 and predicted human ingenuity will create new jobs, industries, and ways of living to ensure jobs are created (Smith). This uncertainty for what lies ahead in the future makes it imperative to determine the extent automation in the manufacturing industry has impacted blue-collar workers in present society. While automation has led to the development and creation of many new jobs, most of these jobs are unattainable for the traditional blue-collar worker causing many to be replaced and without work. Manufacturing corporations must address this issue by improving the effectiveness of worker training programs and providing financial support for workers who have been displaced.

Design of an Inertial Measuring Unit for Control of Robotic Devices

2019 ◽  
Vol 952 ◽  
pp. 313-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Škultéty ◽  
Elena Pivarčiová ◽  
Ladislav Karrach
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Measurement Unit ◽  
Mems Sensor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Robotic Devices ◽  
Robotic Application

Industrial robots are increasingly used to automate technological processes, such as machining, welding, paint coating, assembly, etc. Automation rationalizes material flows, integrates production facilities and reduces the need for manufacturing inventory, provides cost savings for human maintenance. Technology development and growing competition have an influence on production growth and increase of product quality, and thus the new possibilities in innovation of industrial robot are searched for. One of the possibilities is applying of an inertial navigation system into robot control. This article focuses on new trends in manufacturing technology: design of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for a robotic application control. The Arduino platform is used for the IMU as a hardware solution. The advantage of this platform is low cost and wide range of sensors and devices that are compatible with this platform. For scanning, the MEMS sensor MPU6050 is used, which includes a 3-axis gyroscope and an accelerometer in one chip. New trends in manufacturing facilities, especially robotics innovation and automation, will enable the productivity to grow in production processes.

scholarly journals SUMMARY OF CHOSEN LEGISLATION USED IN AUTOMATED OPERATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Marek Vagas
Keyword(s):  
Material Flow ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Robotic Arm ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Target Setting ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Clear Idea

Urgency of the research. In the field of automation currently exists a lot of standards and directives deals with this area, and frequent mistakes and errors occur during implementation of automated workplaces (especially with robotic arm). Target setting. Purpose of article is to give an overview and brief summary of chosen legislation that is most used during of implementation of such systems. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Several books and articles were published during past of years, but a lot of them contain general and complex information, only few of them were focused on limited area, such automated workplac-es. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Despite to lot of information from this area, still is missed clear idea for automated workplace implementation. The research objective. The point of article is showing the most important legislative for automated workplace designing with safety requirements. The statement of basic materials. For success realization of automated solution (obviously with robotic arm) is needed evaluation and assessment of risk that can occur there, with regards to the persons around workplace. Conclusions. The results published in this article increase the correct installation of such automated workplaces, together with industrial robots. In addition, presented legislative helps persons for better understanding of material flow creation in these types of workplaces, where major role is realized via industrial robot. Our proposed solution can be considered as rele-vant base for introducing such workplaces into the “INDUSTRY 4.0” concept.

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