Southwire to deploy Ready Robotics systems at 5 facilities

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Prepared Robotics has already carried out an Automation Readiness Evaluation at Southwire’s services to organize for the challenge. | Supply: Southwire

Southwire yesterday introduced a partnership with Ready Robotics (READY Robotics), a developer of automation programs that overcome the obstacles confronted by producers, to deploy automation at 5 of the corporate’s services. 

By the partnership, Southwire’s Retail East Buyer Service Heart (CSC) in Villa Rica, Ga.; Utility Merchandise Plant in Carrollton, Ga.; Kentucky Plant in Hawesville, Ky.; Florence Plant in Florence, Ala.; and Bremen Campus in Bremen, Ind., will take part within the automation pilot.  

“Partnering with Ready Robotics gives us with a possibility to leverage their experience, as we proceed to deploy cutting-edge expertise inside our operations,” Alex Thomas, chief engineer at Southwire, stated. “Steady enchancment is vital to assuring that we safely service our clients, and this partnership helps us speed up these efforts by utilizing good options that match properly with our historical past as an innovation chief within the trade.” 

To organize for the challenge, Prepared Robotics stated it carried out an Automation Readiness Evaluation (ARA). This systematic evaluation, led by automation professionals, recognized potential automation alternatives inside Southwire’s manufacturing services. The ARA course of evaluates each conventional automation alternatives and high-mix low-volume (HMLV) operations. These HMLV operations are sometimes seen as difficult to automate and not using a versatile answer like Prepared’s ForgeOS, their proprietary industrial OS for robotics and automation.

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Allan Gibson, vp of Automation & Manufacturing Applied sciences at Prepared Robotics known as the partnership a “game-changer.” He stated, “Our collaboration with Southwire to deploy industrial robotics, cell robotics like automated guided autos (AGVs) or autonomous cell robots (AMRs), and Industrial Web of Issues (IIOT) throughout their company utilizing ForgeOS is transformative. It underscores Southwire’s dedication to effectivity, high quality and sustainability.” 

As part of its dedication to Living Well, Southwire says it really works to boost the lives of its workforce members each day by constructing a office that’s various, supportive and interesting. Security and well being are the corporate’s prime priorities, and this partnership is an extension of these efforts. 

“Our partnership with Prepared Robotics helps our ongoing evaluation and initiative to supply a secure atmosphere for all workforce members,” Se Oh, Southwire’s vp of Operations Sustainability, stated. “By shut collaboration between READY Robotics and our Modernization, Well being and Security and Packaging Engineering groups, we plan to domesticate materials dealing with security and associated automation for our present belongings and future investments.”