SMErobot™ - The European Robot Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing
Funder: Integrated project funded under the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
Period: 2005-2009
This initiative is intended to exploit the potentials of industrial robots, because they constitute the most flexible existing automation technology. The consortium is set to create a radically new type of robot system - a whole family of SME-suitable robots.
The SMErobot™ initiative offers an escape out of the automation trap through:
- Technology development of SME robot systems adaptable to varying degrees of automation, at a third of today‘s automation life-cycle costs;
- New business models creating options for financing and operating robot automation given uncertainties in product volumes and life-times and to varying workforce qualification.
- Empowering the supply chain of robot automation by focusing on the needs and culture of SME manufacturing with regard to planning, operation and maintenance.
Contact:Klas Nilsson