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Thinking Outside the Box

Posted August 14, 2010 7:51 AM

"The Great Recession has really knocked the stuffing out of our industry," declared Paul Kellet of RIA. The robotics industry has responded by targeting different markets and focusing on technological improvements that make robotics a good fit for applications like food or pharmaceutical processing. What technological improvements would entice your company to purchase new automation? Do you have equipment that might benefit from additional robotic assistance?

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D.RAMAKRISHNA NAIDU
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08/15/2010 4:13 PM

The first thing any Robotics professional should do is to offer to carry out a "Survey" within the Industry to clearly establish the need for automation and also establish the extent of "Hard" automation and extent of "Soft"/"Flexible" automation. Having filtered out the "hard", the next step would be to decide the appropriate type of ROBOT, (Cartesian/Cylindrical/Polar/SCARA/Anthropomorphic/Custom designed etc.), for the application.Dimentioning and performance specifications have to be agreed upon between the Robotics professional and the Customer.

This follows the good old practice of IBM asking the potential customer "WHY DO YOU NEED A COMPUTER?" in the earliest instance before making a sale or lease of a computer.

Give the customer/user only what is needed and not what you want to push. Unimation found out at a tremendous cost to the customer, that you could kill the market for robots by inappropriate and disproportionately high numbers of robots in the automobile industry, that asked for their services. It's all part of history now.

SELL-but don't oversell

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08/17/2010 2:46 AM

Hi Mr. Naidu. I am Abhishek. It was always my dream to go in Robotics and communication stream since my college days or even since I was in school. Now I work for phone software development since 4 years but still not very happy with what I am doing. Can you please suggest me if still there is any way to go in robotics? I did work on microcontroller for initial couple of months of my career. Please suggest me if any company can give me sheltor. Yes, I am in such a situation that I can't leave job also.
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D.RAMAKRISHNA NAIDU
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08/17/2010 9:05 PM

Dear Mr.Abhishek,

you can always get into Robotics,by aquiring the basics from Professionals in the field.

Please visit www.artecrobotics.com. This field does require a lot of "Thinking outside the box", unlike other disciplines uni-disciplines, Robotics is a multi-disciplinary discipline.

Of course, your knowledge of microcontrollers will be handy.

Where there is a will, there is always a way.

All the best.

Sincerely

D.Ramakrishna Naidu

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I am presently in the US and hope to be back in India next month

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