Best Practices: Steps to Success in Robot Machine Tending

Best Practices: Steps to Success in Robot Machine Tending

With today’s labor uncertainty more and more companies are deciding that now is the time to adopt robotic machine tending. However, there are a lot of considerations to ensure your project will achieve the desired outcomes. At Flexxbotics we believe that success starts with following best practices.

When is CNC Robot Machine Tending Right For Your Factory?

When is CNC Robot Machine Tending Right For Your Factory?

Robotic machine tending maximizes equipment utilization during existing shifts as well as nights, weekends, and holidays without human oversight, and can be especially beneficial when facing labor or skills challenges. Additionally, if keeping margins intact is important, robotic automation will be important to your strategy.

What are Common Challenges in Robotic Machine Tending?

What are Common Challenges in Robotic Machine Tending?

Automating machine tending with robots in your factory provides a wide range of benefits from longer unattended runs and greater capacity to increased profit per part. However, robotic automation presents certain challenges that are not always obvious. These include interfacing between the robots and CNCs and other machines, managing multi-machine operations, and

What Kinds of Parts are Best for Robotic Machine Tending?

What Kinds of Parts are Best for Robotic Machine Tending?

If you’re planning to introduce robotic automation for machine tending, you’re probably thinking about what different kinds of parts work best with robots?
The good news is that there has been real progress in robotic machine tending so these days robots and cobots are able to handle a wide range of part types from simple stock parts all the w