Hello,
I joined a new company last year and what I noticed is that they are training automation people to do robotics.
I just completed my first project with two robots, also doing the automation and the safety. My opinion is that it is a lot more work, between programming the robots, optimizing the moves, doing all the simulation and checking the obstacles while also doing all of the automation...
From the company POV the advantage is obvious, give the same person more hours to do the job instead of allocating another person to do half of the job. The advantage is also that the programs are concepted by the same person and works together well.
However, robots specialists can optimize better and have a broader knowlegde and experience.
Is it a tend to train people in both fields? Does it exist also in your companies? What approach would you favour? Always use robots specialists or only for the harder/more complex process applications?
I joined a new company last year and what I noticed is that they are training automation people to do robotics.
I just completed my first project with two robots, also doing the automation and the safety. My opinion is that it is a lot more work, between programming the robots, optimizing the moves, doing all the simulation and checking the obstacles while also doing all of the automation...
From the company POV the advantage is obvious, give the same person more hours to do the job instead of allocating another person to do half of the job. The advantage is also that the programs are concepted by the same person and works together well.
However, robots specialists can optimize better and have a broader knowlegde and experience.
Is it a tend to train people in both fields? Does it exist also in your companies? What approach would you favour? Always use robots specialists or only for the harder/more complex process applications?