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A rendering of ABB’s new robotics campus in Sweden. | Credit score: ABB
ABB is constructing one other state-of-the-art robotics campus to proceed the growth of its international robotics management. ABB will make investments $280 million on a brand new robotics campus in Västerås, Sweden that can function the hub for ABB Robotics’ choices in Europe.
Building on the brand new campus is predicted to begin within the first quarter of 2024 and be accomplished by the top of 2026. This new facility will enhance ABB’s manufacturing capability for its collaborative and industrial robotic arms by 50% and allow it to higher serve the European market. Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics, informed The Robotic Report ABB will max out its manufacturing capability at its present services by 2026.
Merchandise of ABB’s autonomous cellular robots (AMRs), a results of the corporate’s acquisition of ASTI Cell Robotics in 2021, will stay in Spain, the place ASTI was based. Segura stated R&D and manufacturing should be in the identical place. “With ASTI, we acquired the workforce in addition to the expertise,” he informed The Robotic Report. “So to separate that from manufacturing wouldn’t be possible in our considering.”
The 65,000 sq. meter campus will embrace a brand new manufacturing facility, places of work, a analysis and improvement middle, an expertise middle and a coaching middle for patrons and guests. The manufacturing facility may even characteristic AMRs as a key part in transporting supplies and merchandise between the warehouse, meeting stations and meeting departments.
The brand new facility will substitute the 9 separate buildings which have grown organically since 1974 and at present represent the robotics operations in Sweden. The brand new campus may even function an innovation hub for robotics startups, Segura informed The Robotic Report. Watch the video under to take a digital tour of what the constructing will appear like when full.
“We have now our personal expertise roadmap that we wish to fill by natural improvement, acquisitions and investments,” he stated. “This new campus will assist us match the startup community with our tech roadmap. We’ll supply startups help to run proof of ideas, we’ll lend them merchandise and expertise experience and probably enterprise capital. We’re designing the constructing in Sweden to be accessible without cost to have startups attempting issues out with our expertise stacks.”
When the campus is accomplished, ABB could have invested $450 million in its three robotics services since 2018. In late 2022, ABB opened a $150 million, 67,000-square-meter robotics mega manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. ABB additionally lately spent $20 million to increase its U.S. robotics manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Mich. that can higher serve its clients within the Americas.
“It is a nice time to spend money on robotics and automation,” stated Sami Atiya, president of ABB’s Robotics & Discrete Automation Enterprise Space. “This new Campus [in Sweden] is a big a part of our international development story and key in supporting our European clients as they speed up funding in robotics and AI because of the reshoring of business, the transfer to extra sustainable provide chains and long-term labor shortages. Our Robotics Campus will assist us to serve our clients extra effectively and help new and current sectors like automotive, electronics, logistics, healthcare, e-commerce and prescription drugs to unlock the complete potential of automation.”
The campus in Sweden can be constructed in step with ABB’s 2030 Sustainability Targets that goal in the direction of carbon neutrality inside ABB’s operations by lowering greenhouse fuel emissions and rising the preservation of assets. To help this, consideration can be made within the collection of constructing supplies and development processes in addition to in using photo voltaic panels on the roof.
Segura, who has labored at ABB for greater than 25 years, joined The Robotic Report Podcast in July 2023. He gave us his perspective on the present state of the robotics market, the roadmap for ABB merchandise and the way forward for cellular robots. He additionally detailed the brand new lineup of ABB industrial robots with changeable hyperlink sizes. You may take heed to that interview under beginning on the 20:13 mark.