Where Smart Manufacturers Are Turning For Quality Gains

Your manufacturing operation faces a familiar challenge: maintaining consistent quality across all production. Quality control bottlenecks slow your production, and output varies between shifts, creating inconsistent results that frustrate customers and impact your reputation. These problems directly impact your bottom line and competitive edge. The solution may be collaborative robotics (cobots) that work alongside your human workforce. Universal Robots' cobots, available through Allied Automation and Mechatronic Systems, deliver the consistent quality your operation needs.

• Lost Production Time: When quality issues halt your production line, you lose valuable time that could have been spent building sellable products. These delays can disrupt schedules and reduce overall output.

• Scrap and Rework: Defective parts force you to waste materials and labor on rework, driving up costs and lowering efficiency. Every reprocessed item is time and money you shouldn’t have to spend twice.

• Downtime: Unplanned stoppages due to quality problems can shut down your equipment and stall operations. This not only affects your productivity but also increases maintenance and recovery costs.

• Customer Dissatisfaction: Poor quality leads to complaints and lost trust. When customers lose confidence in your product, you risk losing repeat business and damaging your brand reputation.

Cobots deliver unmatched precision and repeatability. Unlike human operators, they don’t suffer from fatigue or distractions, enabling them to maintain consistent, high-performance output around the clock. With the right custom workstation, UR cobots handle the manufacturing processes of plastics, woods, metals, or any material you need. Every movement follows exact specifications, ensuring consistency for each part.

Cobots perform the manufacturing process with perfect consistency. They use sensors and feedback to avoid defects humans might cause from eye strain or lost focus during long shifts and repetitive tasks. This eliminates quality control problems. Instead of production bottlenecks caused by operators struggling to keep pace, cobots ensure a steady, reliable throughput. This consistency transforms your quality control from a cost center into a competitive edge.

Cobot consistency is especially helpful for welding operations. Natural hand tremors and fatigue cause human welders, even experienced ones, to produce variations in bead size, penetration depth, and travel speed. Joint strength and appearance are inconsistent as a result of these variations. 

These variables are eliminated by cobots. Accurate wire feed rates, consistent torch angles, and precise travel speeds are all maintained by programmed welding paths. This consistency guarantees parts always meet specifications, minimize rework, and avoid weak joints.

“Every worker is going to be different, but the cobot does the same thing every time.” – Jon Adams, Allied Automation Cobot Specialist.

All UR cobots share the same programming interface and safety features. Your team's training applies across multiple robots and applications. Start with one cobot and expand as you see results.

Cobots handle assembly, material handling, quality inspection, packaging, and other repetitive tasks. End-of-arm options include grippers, welding torches, sanders, dispensing systems, and specialized tools for your industry.

All of our customers with cobot workstations report a positive ROI with most seeing positive returns within one year. Returns come from multiple sources, including reduced labor costs, lower workers' compensation claims, decreased insurance premiums, less rework, better customer satisfaction, and increased production capacity. Cobots adapt when your production changes. They can be reprogrammed and redeployed quickly, protecting your investment as your operation evolves.

Cobots smoothly integrate into current processes. Cobot installations often take place during planned maintenance, in contrast to traditional automation that needs days to months of downtime.

Pre-engineered workstations can be integrated into current production lines and have a small footprint. There is no need for specialized infrastructure because the majority of models operate on regular electrical outlets. It is easy to train. Cobot operation and basic programming can be learned by your technicians in a matter of days rather than months. Benefits to productivity are almost instantaneous.

Every Second Lost = Negative ROI For Your Business

Your business does not have to put up with safety hazards and inconsistent quality. Cobots provide tried-and-true answers for reliable performance, improved worker safety, and consistent quality.

Ready to use cobots to address your quality issues?