Monday, February 29, 2016

Mercedes factory will invest in people instead of robots – Portal Technology

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the trend that we have known is the hand of replacing human labor with robots, but Mercedes will do just the opposite, leaving aside the robots and giving preference to people

the news is reported by Bloomberg and justification is simple:. the machines are not flexible. According to Markus Schaefer, “Robots can not cope with the level of customization and many variants that we have today.”

As the cars have increasingly customized and are variable, as the different tire valves, or options as diverse as carbon applications and cupholders. With models with various differences, are required hours of reprogramming the machines so that they operate properly, which led to the Mercedes decided to opt for the human hand, more easily to change.

The machines are more quick to complete tasks, but humans are more versatile, and will be used machines and humans in some production lines. The objective is to reduce For 30 hours, the time required to produce a car

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