KUKA is an international automation group with sales exceeding €4 billion and approximately 15,000 employees. The company specializes in robotics, plant manufacturing, and system technology, offering a comprehensive range of products and services for industrial automation. KUKA operates in over 100 locations worldwide, serving industries such as automotive, electronics, consumer goods, metalworking, logistics, e-commerce, and healthcare. Renowned for its innovative solutions, KUKA integrates cutting-edge technologies to enhance efficiency and flexibility in manufacturing processes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly changed our daily lives. Diagnostic testing remains critical for containment. So are Ellume's tests. The Australian diagnostics company is expanding its automated production with 144 KUKA robots, which will be used in a total of 27 state-of-the-art assembly lines.
KUKA Sunrise.OS Med 2.6 is the latest software release for the CB certified KUKA LBR Med robot. The new and improved software was developed to meet the growing needs of medical device and system manufacture who utilize the LBR Med in their medical application.
The maximum weight of a flour sack in France dropped from 40 to 25 kilograms. This brought the family mill Moulins Bourgeois to the limit of its delivery capacity. For the same scope of delivery, around twice as many flour sacks had to be packed, transported and loaded. The company therefore turned to automation with KUKA robots.
Many KUKA customers who already successfully use in-line wrist robots from the KR CYBERTECH nano family wanted a system that worked directly with power from a wall outlet. Beginning in April 2022, the new KR CYBERTECH nano generation will run on the KR C5 micro robot controller for small robots.
The food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries impose special requirements on robotics. The new KUKA “Hygienic Oil” (HO) portfolio and “Hygienic Machine” (HM) variants are designed to avoid potential contamination and comply with the highest hygiene requirements.
Further strengthening the UK/IE/IL cluster that sits within KUKA EMEA, managed out of KUKA Robotics, Wednesbury, responsibility for South Africa is now that of this established territory. As such, KUKA are delighted to welcome RobotEngine into their partner network, as Silver system partners.
For the tenth year in a row, MHP’s consulting work has been recognized at the Best of Consulting awards for Digitalisation hosted by German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
The robot café Ratio in Singapore has been relying on KUKA's automation expertise since 2019. Now the company has ordered 20 new robot bartenders and baristas - to expand its innovative offering to more cafés, restaurants and co-working offices.