Diving into industrial automation can be complex. Reaching your highest ambitions using automation involves sharing challenges and ideas and together coming up with solutions that can set you on a path to success. We call it collaboration, and it’s the topic of this episode. Between the topic of synergy and building a robust ecosystem of partners, the specialists around the table talk about the UR20 robot and the possibilities it opens for manufacturers all over the world.
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Around the table…
Annelie Dyring-Bro
Annelie Dyring-Bro is Universal Robots’ strategic service director. With extensive experience in diverse industries from food&beverage to telecommunications, Annelie brings business development and strategy implementation expertise to the table. Fairly new to robotics, Annelie brings a fresh outlook to Universal Robots, dedicated to reinforcing its commitment to creating ever-better customer experiences.
Joe Campbell (moderator)
Joe Campbell is a veteran of the robotics industry. After executive assignments in operations, customer service, sales, and marketing, Joe is now head of North America marketing and solutions development for Universal Robots. He frequently presents on the advantages of robotic automation to business organizations, associations, conferences, and state and local governments, making him a leading figure in the sector.
Josh Pawley
Josh is the vice-president of business development and a founding partner at Vectis Automation– a company specializing in welding & cutting solutions and a Universal Robots partner. Josh has more than ten years of experience in bringing robotics and welding closer together and creating safer and more attractive work environments in manufacturing. Handling content Josh is very well familiarized both with the challenges manufacturing businesses face today, but also with the opportunities collaborative robots offer to solve such issues.
Keith Fox
Keith is the global director of Industry Segments at Universal Robots. His background in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and more than 20 years of experience in industrial automation and robotics make him a prominent voice in the robotics industry. Nowadays, Keith dedicates his expertise to finding how Universal Robots can provide customers worldwide with the best collaborative automation solutions.
Samuel Bouchard
Samuel is the CEO and co-founder of Robotiq and the author of Lean Robotics: A Guide to Making Robots Work in Your Factory. Building on his passion for robotics and while he was still finishing his Ph.D., Samuel created Robotiq in 2008 with the mission of freeing human hands from repetitive tasks. Robotiq’s easy-to-deploy products enabled more than 15,000 cobot deployments worldwide, from SMEs to multinational companies.
Steffen Künstner
Steffen Künstner is the CEO of Jugard+Künstner, a family-owned German company in the tool-making and mechanical engineering industries. After 75 successful years, Jugard+Künstner identified a market gap and, at Steffen's hands, decided to take the leap into robotics in 2011. That same year, Jugard+Künstner started distributing Universal Robots' collaborative robots and became a key distributor globally.
About Universal Robots
Universal Robots aims to empower change in the way work is done using its leading-edge robotics platform.
Since introducing the world’s first commercially viable collaborative robot (cobot) in 2008, UR has worked with partners to develop a product portfolio used across a wide range of industries and diverse tasks. The company, which is part of Teradyne Inc., is headquartered in Odense, Denmark with 22 offices and over 700 employees worldwide. Universal Robots has installed over 50,000 cobots. Its business represents around 40- 50% of the global cobot market.
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