Robotic Applications in Industry Future Ahead
Brutus Lo
Managing Director
Lanco Integrated Asia Division
Agenda
•About Lanco
• Industrial Robotic Applications
•Deployment Requirements
•Challenges of Traditional Robots
•"Collaborative" Robots
•System Approach
Global supplier of assembly and test systems for the Automotive, Medical Device, Electronics, Consumer
Products and Telecommunications industries.
Lanco Integrated
NORTH AMERICA – EUROPE – ASIA
1990 2001 2008 2012 2013
Lanco AG purchases
majority of Nu-TEC to
form Lanco
Assembly Systems
(LAS)
LAS management
purchases majority
of LAS from Lanco
AG
LAS employees form
a 100% Employee
Owned company
(ESOP)
1984 1991
Langendorf
Watch
Company is
established
Langendorf
machine build
group
becomes
Lanco AG in
Switzerland
LAS releases
its 2001
Pallet
transfer
system
Lanco Hong
Kong is
formed Lanco
Shanghai
is formed
Nu-TEC is formed in
Maine to automate
audio and video
cassette assembly
Lanco
acquires
OKU
Systems
GmbH & Co,
KG
1873 1980 2002
LAS releases
the 2002
Pallet
transfer
system
1957
OKU GmbH
is formed
2016
LANCO
Integrated
Company History
Global Operations:
350 Employees
More than 250,000 sq. ft. Globally
Complete Engineering Design, Fabrication, Prototyping, Sales, Service and Technical Support around the world
ISO 9001:2008 Certified in NA and Germany
Lanco Integrated
Industrial Robotic Applications
Deployment Requirements
•Speed
•Accuracy/Repeatability
•Payload
•Dexterity
•Environmental Factors
•Super Clean Requirement
Industrial Robotic Applications
Challenges
• Required Skills/Expertise
• Safety Measures
• Deployment Time
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Purchase Price
• Safety, Skills in Maintenance, etc…
• Redeployment
Collaborative Robots
Highlight Benefits
•Safety
•Working side-by-side with human
•Ease of Deployment & Use
•Combining AI technology
Application Considerations
Traditional Collaborative
Speed Very High Relatively lower for Safety Reason
Accuracy & Repeatability
Very High
up to .01mm
Relatively lower
Up to .1mm
Payload High Average*
Possible Models
• Collaborative Robots replacing Traditional
• Replacing a traditional assembly line with a lean cell concept deployed with C.R.
• Collaborative Robots collaborating with Traditional Robots