This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Entrevista a Cristóbal Vela, responsable para aplicaciones de plástico de la División de Robótica de ABB en España
"Still costing entering the market where the linear robots have a greater presence"
Interview with Cristóbal Vela, responsible for application of plastic for Division of ABB on Spain robotic
30/12/2008
The importance of automation in the plastics industry becomes increasingly important, in these times. For this reason, universal plastics has been in contact with the suppliers featured more of the sector to know in what state is the robots in Spain market and how it has evolved to become more and more an essential ally to keep the sector competitive. On these pages we show the views of all those who have agreed to respond to our questionnaire.
It is already customary to take for granted that in Europe (and Spain) the automation in the plastics industry is already an obligation. This claim, do there is actually in demand for robots of this industry?
Interest in automation is dormant, but in the case of the anthropomorphic robot step carried out by the final customer is a priori more risky and therefore still costing entering the market where the linear robots have a greater presence. However, and due to competitive prices and greater versatility, this trend, in my opinion, has to change gradually.
Cristobal Vela, responsible for application of plastic for Division of ABB on Spain robotic.
Does plenty of room in Spain for the sale of robots in the plastics industry?
In line with the previous reply, with regard to the anthropomorphic robots have a long way to go in Spain.
There is room to improve the robots? What technical characteristic is your company focusing to make improvements? (speed, accuracy, cost reduction...).
Of course. We focus on speed, cost reduction, the realization of less bulky mechanical or graphical programming interfaces to facilitate programming. Also in the controls to the simple addition of peripherals such as House of vision, vibrators of parts, etc.
