In the past, the work of a person as well as the robot was too dangerous. This is in the process of change in a BMW car plants in South Carolina.
BMW has taken a giant step toward revolutionizing the role of robots in the automotive manufacturing by making it works in conjunction with humans.
This cooperation between man and machine is one of the first of many forms of cooperation between them will appear when it holds the robots tasks in factories they require human beings in the past. While many fear the possibility of causing this new trend in people losing their jobs, sees his supporters on the other hand it will increase employee productivity; it Sarihhm of the most exciting and hardship for narrow tasks.
Android devices joined the auto industry in decades; the first industrial robots – a huge arm weighs 4 lbs thousands Aonimaat called – began to prove configuration templates on the car doors in the production line of one of General Motors Corp. factories in 1961. Robot manufacturing was a strong and high-definition, but in general it was not the work of human beings to his safe. As a result, there is a large number of final assembly stage tasks – in the automobile factories and others – is still almost the entire lead manually.
In the BMW plant in South Carolina Sbartenberg, breaking the robot built by Universal Robots Danish company that barrier and become a help humans in the stages of final assembly for the doors. And questions Android devices with an item placed on the car doors to prevent sound and water seeped into the car, and put that article before installing the door frame. Stefan Parcher chief creative department at BMW says: «It is exhausting work to a large extent; because you have to put the glue on the door frame circular. If you perform that task several times a day, you will feel that you are playing a match at Wimbledon. »
Parcher confirms that Android devices used in the final assembly phase will not replace workers from humans, but prolong the duration of their careers. He says: «The age of our workers are on the increase; increased the retirement age in Germany is emerging from 65 years to 67 years, and I’m sure to a large extent that that age will rise when the pension to $ 72, or the like. In reality, we need something to replace it for our workforce to maintain their health and keep them in operation for a long period of time. We want the robot to human support. »
In recent years, manufacturers have discovered Android devices that can – with the help of programmes and controls appropriate safety – for those devices to work next to humans to. As a result of this rapidly emerging new breed of robots more efficient use in the workplace.
