Collaborative Robot Application Complexity Calculator

It’s no secret that finding reliable staff is becoming more and more difficult. Younger generations prefer hybrid or remote work and much of our skilled labor force is quickly approaching retirement. Finding and keeping employees in positions that are dull, dirty, or dangerous is not only hard to do, but can result in injuries that cost tens of thousands of dollars. A great solution to keep your team safe and avoid staffing headaches could be flexible automation.

Flexible automation, refers to solutions that use collaborative technologies like cobots that can be deployed fairly easily and relocated or reassigned to another task in your facility when needed. Some believe that deploying cobots is so simple it can be done by anyone. While the programming interface is user-friendly it still takes a skilled programmer to set up a reliable and repeatable cobot cell.

If you aren’t sure whether or not your team is equipped to deploy a cobot on your own, this complexity calculator will help you determine how difficult it may be. For each section, you can self-rate your applications from 1-10 with 1 being simple and 10 being complex. At the end, you will have an overall complexity score to help guide your decision.