"An investment in robotics pays off faster than people expect"
added value can an OEM expect to gain from integrating robots into their machines? Brandstetter: I see three main advantages. First, robots make machines more flexible. Second, a robot can often be the [...] inserting the sheets, the robot can also serve as an additional motion control axis in the bending process. Not to mention the fact that a fully automated bending machine can run 24 hours a day. Could you [...] do that, you have to slow the line down to a safe speed so they can open the safety gate. But if you have a robot do it, the machine can continue along uninterrupted at full speed. But when you start adding