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ABB this morning began development on the growth of its present North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The $20 million undertaking is anticipated to be accomplished in November 2023 and can create 72 extremely expert new jobs within the space and is supported by a $450,000 Michigan Enterprise Improvement Program performance-based grant.
Including to the $14 billion ABB has invested within the US since 2010, the most recent funding in its robotics headquarters and manufacturing unit will profit clients within the Americas, significantly these in development sectors together with electrical automobiles, healthcare, packaging and logistics. With the growth set to extend the manufacturing unit’s manufacturing capability, it responds to the elevated demand for automation from 70% of U.S. companies trying to convey manufacturing nearer to dwelling, as revealed by ABB Robotics’ survey of 1,610 executives within the U.S. and Europe in June 2022.
“Our funding is a major step in accelerating ABB Robotics’ world management in growing and manufacturing cutting-edge robotic options within the U.S., for the Americas,” mentioned Sami Atiya, president of ABB Robotics and Discrete Automation. “As the worldwide megatrends of labor shortages, uncertainty, the close to and reshoring of manufacturing, and a want to function extra sustainably speed up, extra companies are turning to automation to construct resilience whereas bettering effectivity and suppleness. Our expanded facility will assist us to higher serve clients within the US and throughout the Americas, giving them entry to progressive automated options.”
ABB Robotics moved into the 538,000-square-foot constructing in 1993 and opened the manufacturing plant in 2015. The growth and elevated use of automation within the manufacturing unit will create new jobs, supporting the ABB Robotics Packaging & Logistics Headquarters in Atlanta and the Robotics Lifesciences and Healthcare Hub positioned on the Texas Medical Middle in Houston. ABB already has a workforce of roughly 350 workers at Auburn Hills.
“ABB’s $20 million funding creating 72 jobs will construct on our financial momentum and assist us proceed main the way forward for robotics and automation,” mentioned Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “Due to corporations like ABB Robotics and the help of our native companions, we will maintain bringing jobs and funding to each area of our state, revitalizing communities, and constructing an economic system of the long run.”
ABB mentioned this funding will see the most recent digital and automation applied sciences carried out to fabricate next-generation robots within the U.S., for the Americas, streamlining the supply course of and lowering lead occasions. Near 90% of robots delivered to clients within the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America will quickly be made in Auburn Hills. The plant will use versatile, modular manufacturing cells which might be digitally related and networked, and served by clever autonomous cell robots. AI-powered robotic techniques will tackle duties corresponding to screw driving, assembling and materials dealing with, relieving folks from these duties and enabling extra rewarding work.
“The expanded facility will function probably the most superior expertise obtainable, with AI-enabled robots and good digital manufacturing techniques supporting the manufacturing and manufacture of state-of-the-art buyer options,” mentioned John Bubnikovich, ABB United States robotics division president. “Nearly each side of the location can be upgraded to complement our efforts to draw, retain and nurture the most effective automation expertise, whereas making a US manufacturing hub and headquarters befitting of a world chief in automation.
As a world-leading robotics firm, ABB has made plenty of necessary bulletins over the previous couple of months. In December 2022, it launched the SWIFTI CRB 1300 robotic arm and opened a robotics mega manufacturing unit in Shanghai. In October, ABB launched the IRB 1010, which is the corporate’s smallest industrial robotic ever.
And in September 2022 it launched its first vary of rebranded autonomous cell robots (AMRs) following the acquisition of cell robotic chief ASTI Cellular Robotics in 2021 for $190M. ASTI Cellular Robotics’ options are actually rebranded and built-in into ABB’s portfolio, grouped beneath the Flexley identify, indicating the pliability of operations that the AMRs supply. The primary rebranded fashions to be launched, Flexley Tug and Flexley Mover, cowl purposes together with towing, trolley transportation as much as 5,350 lbs (2000 kg), in addition to lifting and transporting racks, containers and pallets of 4,000 lbs (1,500 kg).
