Industrial Automation

Global competition and digital transformation increase the requirements of manufacturing companies enormously. While new products, technologies, and variations are appearing on the market with ever greater frequency, customer expectations on the production of goods are increasingly being influenced by the effortless comparison of offers via the Internet.

In order to meet these expectations, manufacturers must ensure great product variety against a backdrop of fluctuating batch sizes. Adding further to this pressure are other factors, such as a shortage of skilled labor, rising wage costs and stringent health and safety requirements. Manufacturing-facilities thus require flexible production systems, the key to which lies in automating production.

Automation means improving the production process by means of machinery and state-of-the-art technologies. As a specialist in the field of automating robotics in production, KUKA enables you to meet the more exacting requirements in terms of speed, flexibility, efficiency, productivity and added value.

KUKA supplements its own know-how through investments in start-up companies, such as Device Insight.

The Munich-based company specializes in IoT platforms for networked production systems. It optimally complements KUKA’s expertise, establishing a comprehensive portfolio of products and services in the field of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Products and software from KUKA are to be found in numerous sectors, such as the automotive industry, the electronics industry and the metal industry. Take a look at our success stories to gain an impression of our industrial automation systems and find out how you can benefit from our expertise, to successfully rise to the challenges posed by the digital transformation using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Custom industry solutions within the electronics sector: automation with a sensitive touch

The electronics sector is a classic example of an industry that can benefit enormously from robotic application. Product life cycles are becoming perceptibly shorter – the must-have items of today are the non-sellers of tomorrow. At the same time, wage costs and quality requirements are rising in almost all countries.

The increasing automation of production and the cooperative networking of human workers and machines are set to change the world of work and robotics fundamentally. Even in the factory of the future, however, the focus will still be on humans. Robots will not replace humans, but complement their abilities. Various robotics related and new occupations will come into being, particularly at the interface between mechanical engineering and IT.

KUKA stands for Industrie 4.0 made in Germany. With the slogan "iintelligence 4.0_beyond automation", our goal is to establish smart automation solutions globally in different industries and to pursue their further development. Together with our customers, for example, we want to take the opportunity to support valuable manpower with machinery, secure jobs by means of higher productivity and achieve greater efficiency and flexibility in production.