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As an additional note - the cost of the robot is only part of the cost. You have to bring the parts to be welded together to start with (i.e. some sort of conv
by Closi 3y ago
As an additional note - the cost of the robot is only part of the cost.
You have to bring the parts to be welded together to start with (i.e. some sort of conveyor system - decent conveyor is like $4-5k per meter) and the cost quoted there also doesn't include integration, programming, maintenance, project management, M&E, and support.
As soon as the payback is compelling companies will put it in - but I suspect the quoted $100k here actually ends up being more like $300k-$500k by the time it's installed and all costs are pushed in. Then there is probably a $30-50k maintenance contract that sits on top of it.
- dieselgate 3y agoThe maintenance contract is probably very relevant in day-to-day business operations but easy to overlook otherwise. I'm not intimately familiar with this type of work but get the impression most (structural) welders are responsible for their own equipment (and operate their own company/business) or Big Construction Co. rents whatever welder they need from Enterprise Rental Co. The needs of location-static manufacturing (building a vehicle in a factory; fabrication) will always be different than location-dynamic building (structures etc.)
- 082349872349872 3y ago> Then there is probably a $30-50k maintenance contract that sits on top of it. When the Soviet Union tried to get into CAD/CAM, they managed to crank out a high volume of CAM stations, but neglected ancillary things like training and maintenance, so many/most of these machines went somewhere where they sat in a remote corner until someone figured out how to use them, saw brief use, then got put back in the corner the first time something broke.