Addressing a nationwide shortage for welders in the manufacturing sector, Hirebotics set out to solve this challenge through a collaborative robot called BotX Welder that can perform heavy-duty tasks. The robot is built on the foundation of the Universal Robot, and comes with all parts, including a cobot arm, cloud connector, and welder.
BotX is easy to program and provides customers with a system that ensures they do not assume the risk of ownership, both major factors that allows robotic welding to be successful. Customers pay only for the work that the robot performs and can even teach them the required welds by using an intuitive app on any phone or tablet.
The robot works on the cloud, enabling customers to constantly upgrade with additional features, receive 24/7 support from Hirebotics, and track hours that manufacturers have used the robot for welding. With BotX Welder, manufacturing companies are able to fill in the worker shortage and increase productivity within the company while maintaining quality with their products. This is one more innovative way to address the technology skills gap.
“We are now able to deliver quality equivalent to what we could accomplish manufacturing with very expensive tooling typically used with higher-volume part runs,” says PMI’s VP of Operations, mentioning the ease of accessing the solution. “Being able to simply hire the BotX Welder, and quickly switch between welds by using our smart phone—and only pay for the hours it works—is huge for us. It took our area lead, who had no prior robotics experience, half an hour to teach it how to weld the first part.”
