Employee satisfaction
At first, employees may be skeptical about robots in manufacturing, but the addition of cobots to the factory floor won’t – and shouldn’t – replace human workers. They are designed to work alongside humans, taking on the more monotonous, error-prone tasks, and positioning workers to handle tasks requiring more cognition, dexterity, and reason. When employees are free from dull and dangerous work, they can take on more rewarding work and their overall job satisfaction improves. In a 2019 report on the consumer-packaged goods industry, McKinsey found that extensive automation can ease recruitment and improve retention by creating new technical roles with better pay, opportunities, and working conditions.
Highest quality
As mentioned above, consumers are demanding higher quality goods at lower costs. Cobots play a big role in improving product quality by eliminating human error, ensuring consistency and accuracy, enhancing the ability to create more complex goods, and identifying errors along the way. They don’t get bored, tired, or distracted, so cobots can complete a shift with no change in speed or quality of work. Tool manufacturer RUPES, for example, made a bold commitment to “zero defects” in its products and turned to Universal Robots for a solution that would augment its excellent workforce, minimize wastage, and bring about immediate results. By implementing cobots, RUPES was able to decrease human errors or eliminate them entirely, as well as improve sustainability by reducing raw material waste. Ultimately, the organization achieved its commitment to “zero defects” thanks to robotic manufacturing.