ABB Launches Next Generation Cobots to Unlock Automation for New Sectors and First-Time Users
February 24, 2021 at 09:08 am EST
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ABB is expanding its collaborative robot (cobot) portfolio with the new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families, offering higher payloads and speeds, to complement YuMi® and Single Arm YuMi® in ABB's cobot line-up. These stronger, faster and more capable cobots will accelerate the company's expansion in high-growth segments including electronics, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics and food and beverage, amongst others, meeting the growing demand for automation across multiple industries. GoFa and SWIFTI are intuitively designed so customers need not rely on in-house programming specialists. This will unlock industries that have low levels of automation, with customers able to operate their cobot within minutes of installation, straight out of the box, with no specialized training. ABB's cobot portfolio expansion is engineered to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation amid four key megatrends including individualized consumers, labor shortages, digitalization and uncertainty that are transforming business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy. The expansion follows the Business Area's focus on high-growth segments through portfolio innovation, helping to drive profitable growth.
ABB Ltd is one of the world's leaders in the design, production and marketing of industrial equipment. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- electrical transmission and distribution products and systems (67.2%): transformers, medium-voltage electrical distribution systems (circuit breakers, switches, fuses, transducers, etc.), high-voltage electrical distribution systems (condensers, switches, etc.), and automated systems for use in electrical plants. ABB Ltd also offers turnkey installation services for transmission systems;
- automation systems (30.6%): electrical protection systems and instruments for measuring and controlling fluids, production process control systems (primarily for the oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical, marine, mining, and paper industries). The group also manufactures and markets robots and modular systems;
- other (2.2%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Europe (35.9%), China (13.9%), Asia/Middle East/Africa (15.8%), the United States (25.6%) and Americas (8.8%).