A RISK ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACE OPERATIONS TO CONTROL THE POTENTIAL OF INJURIES/LOSSES AT THE XYZ MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the robot palletizing operation at XYZ Manufacturing Company using the risk assessment methodology recommended by the ANSI/RIA R15.06 standard. XYZ Manufacturing Company is a food processing company located on the Midwest, U.S. Just two years ago they installed five industrial robots, automating a significant part of their packaging operations. Since then risk assessments of the operation have not been performed. The lack of robot operations assessment is placing employees at risk of injuries. Even though XYZ Manufacturing Company had not had any accidents, there is a great potential of occurrence within the operation. 2 Data on robot-related accidents is difficult to find, nevertheless studies