MANAGEMENT OF COST REDUCTION AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT. IMPLEMENTATION OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS VERSUS COLABORATIVE ROBOTS

Abstract

The scientific paper proposes a pragmatic perspective of analyzing the most important theoretical and practical aspects of industrial and collaborative robots in an industrial organization. The research presents in an elegant manner generalities, methods of operation, recommendations regarding the integrating areas of industrial and collaborative robots on the market and use in various manufacturing industries. Improving product quality, delivery time and the reduction of manufacturing costs is possible by building autonomous automatic manufacturing flows. In these manufacturing flows, industrial robots and collaborative robots play an important role and represent the future. Both industrial robots and collaborative robots are a viable and sustainable alternative for the product quality assurance, increased productivity and profit achievement by reducing manufacturing costs. An economic analysis has been achieved to determine which is the most costeffective way of working with man, industrial robot or collaborative robot in a manufacturing automatic flow. In this scientific paper, the authors reunited multiple information about the existing and successfully implemented solutions.