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<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\u201cOur new cobot portfolio is the most diverse on the market, offering the potential to transform workplaces and help our customers achieve new levels of operational performance and growth\u201d, said Sami Atiya, President of ABB\u2019s Robotics & Discrete Automation Business Area. \u201cThey are easy to use and configure and backed by our global network of on-call, on-line service experts to ensure that businesses of all sizes and new sectors of the economy, far beyond manufacturing, can embrace robots for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
ABB\u2019s cobot portfolio expansion is engineered to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation amid four key megatrends including individualized consumers, labor shortages, digitalization and uncertainty that are transforming business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy.\u00a0 The expansion follows the Business Area\u2019s focus on high-growth segments through portfolio innovation, helping to drive profitable growth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Automation driving the future of manufacturing
In a global survey1 of 1650 large and small businesses in Europe, the US and China, 84 percent of businesses said they will introduce or increase the use of robotics and automation in the next decade, while 85 per cent said the pandemic had been \u201cgame changing\u201d for their business and industry, with COVID-19 a catalyst for accelerating investment in automation. Nearly half of businesses (43 percent) said they were looking to robotics to help them improve workplace health and safety, 51 percent said robotics could enhance social distancing and more than one-third (36 percent) were considering using robotic automation to improve the quality of work for their employees.\u00a0 More immediately, 78 percent of company CEOs and Managing Directors said recruiting and retaining staff for repetitive and ergonomically challenging jobs is a challenge.<\/p>\n
Cobots are designed to operate in the presence of workers without the need for physical safety measures such as fences and to be very easy to use and install. In 2019, more than 22,000 new collaborative robots were deployed globally, up 19 percent compared to the previous year2. The demand for collaborative robots is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 17 percent between 2020 and 20253 while the value of global cobot sales is expected to increase from an estimated $ ~0.7 billion in 2019 to $ ~1.4 bn by 20254. The global market for all industrial robots is projected to grow from $ ~45 billion in 2020 to $ ~58 billion by 2023 (CAGR of 9 percent)5.<\/p>\n
GoFa\u2122 and SWIFTI\u2122 are engineered to help businesses automate processes to assist workers with tasks including material handling, machine tending\u200b, component assembly\u200b and packaging in manufacturing, medical laboratories, logistics hubs and warehouses, workshops, and small production facilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this expansion, we are making cobots easier to use and deploy, with real-time support to help speed their adoption in businesses that may have not considered their use previously,\u201d Atiya said.\u00a0 \u201cOur experience is that the best performing operations harness people\u2019s skills, alongside the potential of new technologies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Users comfortable with operating a tablet or smartphone will be able to program and re-program the new cobots with ease, using ABB\u2019s fast set-up tools. Customers will also benefit from ABB\u2019s global industry and application expertise, which has been developed from installing more than 500,000 robot solutions since 1974 and supported by ABB\u2019s network of over 1,000 global partners.<\/p>\n
The new GoFa\u2122 and SWIFTI\u2122 cobot families build on the success of ABB\u2019s YuMi family, which has been helping businesses safely automate key tasks since YuMi, the world\u2019s first truly collaborative robot, was launched in 2015. Today, ABB\u2019s YuMi cobots are working alongside people in factories, workshops and laboratories all over the world, performing tasks from screwdriving and assembling electronics and electrical components, to making valves and USB sticks, and testing COVID-19 samples in laboratories.<\/p>\n
Every ABB cobot installation includes a start-up package that provides ABB Ability\u2122 condition monitoring & diagnostics as well as a support hotline free for the first six months to access ABB\u2019s expert technical assistance, which is offering support across all industry segments.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit the ABB website or click here to register for a virtual conference and launch event for GoFa\u2122 and SWIFTI\u2122 at 0900 – 1000 CET on 24 February 2021.<\/p>\n
Click here for a press pack regarding GoFa\u2122 and here for SWIFTI\u2122.<\/p>\n
1 ABB Industry Survey January 2021. Conducted by 3Gem Global Market Research & Insights, the ABB industry survey of 1650 CEO or Managing Director decision-makers in large and small businesses in the US, China, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Sweden, included technology, retail, healthcare, engineering, manufacturing, automotive, food\u00a0 & beverage, leisure, FMCG, and transportation & logistics executives.\u00a0 Conducted December 26, 2020 – January 19, 2021, 3Gem Research & Insights utilize industry-standard panel management systems and adhere to stringent quality control procedures; delivering double opt-in, GDPR-compliant consumer and B2B panels.<\/p>\n
2 Source: Interact Analysis The Collaborative Robot Market 3rd Edition (click here)<\/p>\n
3 and 4 Source: Interact Analysis The Collaborative Robot Market 3rd Edition (click here) and ABB internal analyses<\/p>\n
5 Source: ABB internal analyses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ABB is expanding its collaborative robot (cobot) portfolio with the new GoFa\u2122 and SWIFTI\u2122 cobot families, offering higher payloads and speeds, to complement YuMi\u00ae and Single Arm YuMi\u00ae in ABB\u2019s cobot line-up. These stronger, faster and more capable cobots will accelerate the company\u2019s expansion in high-growth segments including electronics, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics and food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nonsoloauto-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27918,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions\/27918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}