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Robotics & Automation Awareness

Automation decisions go wrong in both directions. Some plants automate a task that was never the bottleneck and get a fast robot feeding a slow queue. Others avoid automation on cost grounds while paying for overtime and rework on a task a machine would do more consistently. This day covers what each technology is genuinely good at, the safety and integration work people underestimate, and how to build a business case that includes the costs that only appear after installation.

Programme Agenda

The Technology Families

Fixed and hard automation, industrial robots, collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots and automated guided vehicles, and machine vision. What each is actually good at, and typical cost ranges.

Which Tasks Suit Automation

Repeatability, part presentation, cycle time, variability and volume. The tasks that automate well, the ones that look automatable and are not, and why part presentation is the constraint more often than the robot.

Cobots and the Shared Workspace

What makes a collaborative application collaborative, the speed and force limits involved, and why a cobot is frequently slower than the manual process it replaced. Where the trade is worth it.

Mobile Robots and Material Movement

Guided against autonomous navigation, fleet management, traffic and infrastructure requirements. The floor, network and layout conditions that determine whether a deployment works.

Safety and Risk Assessment

Risk assessment obligations, guarding, light curtains, safety-rated stops, and the requirement that a collaborative application be assessed as an application rather than certified as a product. Commissioning and validation.

Integration Reality

End effectors, fixturing, part feeding, upstream and downstream conveyance, and integration with existing control systems. The costs beyond the robot that regularly double a project budget.

Workforce and Change

Redeployment rather than redundancy, the new maintenance and programming skills required, operator acceptance, and involving the people who run the process in the selection.

Building the Business Case

Labour, quality, throughput, scrap and safety benefits against capital, integration, maintenance, training and downtime during commissioning. Participants appraise a candidate application from their own plant.

Learning Outcomes:
Distinguish the main automation technology families and their strengths
Assess whether a specific task is genuinely suitable for automation
Judge when a collaborative application is the right choice despite slower cycles
Evaluate site conditions for mobile robot deployment
State the safety risk assessment obligations for a robotic application
Budget for integration costs beyond the robot itself
Plan the workforce and skills change automation requires
Appraise a candidate automation project with full lifetime costs

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

Production and operations managers, manufacturing and process engineers, maintenance managers, EHS staff, procurement, and directors evaluating automation proposals. It is written for buyers and decision makers rather than for robot programmers.

No. Programming is vendor-specific and is properly learned on the equipment you buy. This programme covers selection, safety, integration and the business case.

Partly. The mobile robot and material movement content applies to warehousing and logistics, and the business case method is general. The examples are predominantly manufacturing.

No. The session covers how to evaluate a proposal and what to specify, and is deliberately vendor-neutral. Participants regularly bring quotes and work them through the appraisal module.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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