ABB Robotics - Packing wooden furniture

9 ABB Robots are employed by Svedplan in Sweden to pack the perfect flat pack furniture. Productivity has improved by 45%. For more information visit abb.com/robotics

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• ABB
• Robot
• Industrial
• Robots
• Robotics
• Palletizing
• Depalletizing
• Wood
• Industries
• wooden
• Furniture
• Flat-Pack
• IRB660
• IRB440

[miclassicarcade]

shouldn't there be people doing those jobs? I would never buy from this company.

[ABBRobotics]

@miclassicarcade This installation is in Sweden and there it is unacceptable for people to be employeed in this type of work due to Health & Safety concerns. There is a very high risk of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). In this case robots are being used to elevate the nature of work.

[DualShooter]

Are these robots at all intelligent to detect if a plank has shifted slightly and correct for it? Or do they just continue with their routines until the foreman notices the robots making a mess?

[ABBRobotics]

@DualShooter These paritcular robots do not have that facilty as it was not needed. But it is easy to add with a low cost 2D camera based vision system.

[longlivekarachi]

...and people are wondering why they don't have a job.

[ABBRobotics]

Its becoming increasing difficult to get people to do this repetitive lifting & packing jobs & as a society we should be trying to elevate the nature of work in these types of industry.

[ABBRobotics]

Maybe. But not safer. People who handle these types of weight day in day out get ill. Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

[mothflavour2]

The moral of this story is don't try to work a job where you can be replaced by a robot.

[miclassicarcade]

@ABBRobotics yeah right, try working in an auto factory.. your telling me putting stuff in boxes is a strain!!! lol.. you people are lazy and not only that want to take jobs from people. I would never buy your products because you use robots. The only robots we use at Ford are welders to weld the bodies because of confined spaces and accuracy reasons. Other wise people assemble our f-150's.. I work in a factory putting shit in boxes isn't work.

[ERJ1233]

to those who say robots are taking away jobs...lets go back to the days of sweat shops and little children stooped over simple sewing machines to make our clothes, days of chopping down trees by hand/laying up logs to form our houses, days of walking behind a team of horses to plow our field for food, days of men laboring in dark, dangerous gas filled mines to dig coal to provide us with heat (oh yeah, we still have that). to days of 8 mile per gallon cars that might last two years. lets go!

[mendezQI]

ABB gets things like that thanks to the genius of its employees. Still, in the name of profit, the company is laying off workers in the plant of Galindo to hire others in Turkey paying even lower wages. 160 families will be sent straight to misery because of the greed of ABB. Watch the irreverent and unexpected video produced by the workers as protest against the greed of ABB. Search for ABB Galindo "Cierre por pelotas" in YouTube. Shame ABB. All support workers ABB!