Their biggest challenge and opportunity for automation was the manual, labor-intensive tube rolling process. Because each chiller was a customized product, there was no single standardization to the hole patterns adding to the complexity of a potential automation process.
The stock of operational robots around the globe hit a new record of about 3.5 million units –the value of installations reached an estimated 15.7 billion USD.
Today’s integrated power modules are addressing the demanding size, weight, power budgets and cost efficiencies required to move robots from factory, residential and commercial applications into a vast new landscape bounded only by the imagination.