Robotics Integrators

Robotics integrators are experts regarding automation and robotics. When a company wants to automate its manufacturing or other processes, it hires a robotics integrator to assist them. First, the integrator discusses the company’s needs with executives and inspects its current manufacturing, materials handling, shipping, or inspection lines. Robotic integration is useful for numerous applications, including assembly, coating, dispensing, gluing, material handling and removal, packaging, painting, palletizing, and welding. Then the integrator performs a feasibility study to determine the costs, required labor and time requirements, and the types of robots or other automation processes that are needed—such as industrial robot arms, collaborative robot applications (which are known as cobots), autonomous mobile robots, or machine vision systems (those that use camera systems or other sensing technologies such as LIDAR to assist in automation systems). Integrators might also identify other processes or systems that are good candidates for automation. Integrators create computer-aided designs and/or utilize augmented/virtual reality to create a plan for the new system and help their clients visualize its functioning.

Once the work plan is approved. The integrator designs a system of various robots and obtains the components from a robotics manufacturer/supplier. With the help of technicians, engineers, electricians, and other workers, they assemble the robotics system and integrate it with existing mechanical, electrical, and other systems. They test and troubleshoot the system until it works properly.

Robotics integrators train workers regarding programming and otherwise operating the system, and they may write technical guides to assist their clients.