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Innovation Through Robotics (AMC21039)

The future of industry is robotic. Now more than ever, businesses throughout Ireland and beyond must adopt robotic technologies and processes to remain relevant in what is an increasingly competitive market. However, an organisation’s investment in robotic innovation must be met by a comprehensive upskilling programme.

The benefits of industrial innovation via robotic technology are significant:

Improved product quality & consistency
Maximum productivity & throughput
Greater safety
Reduced direct labour costs

Innovation through robotic deployment is playing a key role in industry’s transition towards Industry 4.0-based processes. Representing a natural technological partnership, robotics and manufacturing are now combining as critical elements of any operation that seeks maximum efficiency and productivity.

By using robotics and automation to innovate within their own processes, businesses can transform their levels of safety whilst enjoying a competitive edge in their market. Indeed, manufacturing robotics can effectively automate your business’ most repetitive tasks; reducing margins to error to small rates whilst allowing human labour to be focused on more productive areas.

The Innovation Through Robotics Programme is being delivered in conjunction with Irish Manufacturing Research and provides employers and employees with the necessary skills to both identify and evaluate opportunities for robotics and automation within their own organisation. Throughout the course of this in-depth learning programme, learners will attain a detailed knowledge on:

The role and possibilities for automation in the workplace.
The deployment of robotics and automation to complete asynchronous tasks
An introduction to innovation and industrial automation paradigms and applications
Technology options for robotics.
An introduction to cobots, cobot safety, machine vision and mobile robots
Building safety into an automation project.

Ideal for Technicians, Engineering Managers and Engineers, this course will accredit learners with 37 Hours Engineers Ireland Accredited CPD upon completion.

Upskilling for the Future of Manufacturing

A recent article in Autodesk’s Redshift online magazine identified 6 ways that companies can start upskilling to support the adoption of advanced manufacturing.

The adoption of digital technologies is transforming advanced manufacturing resulting in both changes to nature of work and the requirement for new skills. To maintain future employability, workers need to become more tech savvy in order to fully utilise technologies such as robotics as they are deployed in manufacturing environments. The six key areas for manufacturing organisations to consider when upskilling their workforce are:

1. When Upskilling for the Future, Keep Skill Sets Human
2. Be Open to Online Communication in Your Upskilling Strategy
3. Remember to Be Patient: Skill Upgrades Require Trust
4. Don’t Confuse Transformation With Revolution
5. Let New Employees Be Digital Catalysts
6. Leverage the New Drive for Apprenticeships

https://redshift.autodesk.com/upskilling-for-the-future/ (M. De Wolf, 2020)

Testimonials

“I have really enjoyed the Industry 4.0 Automation Pyramid Technologies training. The course was well presented, easy to follow, and as it's online, I could do it anytime. It's more than an introduction to automation, the course explains all the steps, from pneumatics, electrical, PLC to the robots. I recommend this course to anyone who wishes to learn more about automation or wants to improve their skills in the area.”

Vanessa Loiola, Founder CEO, Valoy Automation

““We are very excited about the establishment by LMETB of the Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre of Excellence in Dundalk and recently experienced an effective interaction with the Centre resulting in the development and running of a bespoke Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T) programme for a number of staff across all our business units. The Dromone Engineering participants enjoyed the course, its content and found the structure of the training and business tools extremely useful and are already applying these in practice. We have already booked further courses for our staff and look forward to collaborating with the AMTCE going forward”.

William Egenton, Managing Director (Dromone Engineering)

“I was delighted to attend The 3D Additive Manufacturing Workshop on 23rd September this year. In particular it was great to be able to view the very impressive AMTCE building and facilities in Dundalk Campus. This is a very valuable and welcome training resource for all companies like Abcon in the North East. From short courses on 3D Additive manufacturing through to Robotics/Cobotics we really look forward to sending some colleagues to AMTCE in the coming years. Congratulations to all who are making this a reality for the region”.

Barry Smith, Managing Director (Abcon Industrial Products Ltd)

“The trainer left absolutely no stone unturned – each topic and sub-topic was gone into in just enough detail for us to go off and carry out our own additional searches for further reading. We now know exactly the important things that we don’t know enough about but which we will need to get to grips with. And on the topic of IIOT, this alone will prove critical for success”.

Tom Griffith, Business Development Manager (Serchek Industrial Ireland Limited)

As a new facility in the Panasonic Avionics Network, we had to set up our processes from scratch. Being based in California, it was difficult with time zones and distances to have the Lean/Six Sigma training in-house. Brian from People and Processes facilitated by Aoife from AMTCE, solved this problem for us by providing training locally which we were able to partake in. It was a more enriching experience for us having students from other companies and operations on the training as we could see the problems faced by the different industries. We could see how the lean/six sigma tools could be used in different scenarios and potential solutions provided. Everyone from Panasonic Avionics who had the training, Green Belt or Yellow Belt had a positive learning outcome as either a complete novice to being aware to be a practitioner in the applications of Lean/Six Sigma.

Panasonic

“The training gave the technicians confidence to work on issues on the production floor as their understanding of the robots has increased, they were able to take on what they had learned and implement with fixes to online problems. This resulted in more uptime on our machines and going forward they have expressed an interest to go even further with the Training and take part in the Robotics advanced training”.

Ciaran Griffins ,Technical Team Lead (Becton, Dickinson and Company)

“I found the Introduction to Robotics (Intermediate Level) training very relaxed but informative and inclusive. The mix of classroom theory and practical work was just right. The Kuka building is a fantastic location for this type of training and the instructors knowledge was second to none. I found it very relatable to my work and will use the knowledge I have gathered going forward”.

Steven Faulkner ,Senior Electrical Day Technician (BD)