Robotic Applications in Industry Future Ahead

Brutus Lo

Managing Director

Lanco Integrated Asia Division

Agenda

•About Lanco

• Industrial Robotic Applications

•Deployment Requirements

•Challenges of Traditional Robots

•"Collaborative" Robots

•System Approach

Global supplier of assembly and test systems for the Automotive, Medical Device, Electronics, Consumer

Products and Telecommunications industries.

Lanco Integrated

NORTH AMERICA – EUROPE – ASIA

1990 2001 2008 2012 2013

Lanco AG purchases

majority of Nu-TEC to

form Lanco

Assembly Systems

(LAS)

LAS management

purchases majority

of LAS from Lanco

AG

LAS employees form

a 100% Employee

Owned company

(ESOP)

1984 1991

Langendorf

Watch

Company is

established

Langendorf

machine build

group

becomes

Lanco AG in

Switzerland

LAS releases

its 2001

Pallet

transfer

system

Lanco Hong

Kong is

formed Lanco

Shanghai

is formed

Nu-TEC is formed in

Maine to automate

audio and video

cassette assembly

Lanco

acquires

OKU

Systems

GmbH & Co,

KG

1873 1980 2002

LAS releases

the 2002

Pallet

transfer

system

1957

OKU GmbH

is formed

2016

LANCO

Integrated

Company History

Global Operations:

350 Employees

More than 250,000 sq. ft. Globally

Complete Engineering Design, Fabrication, Prototyping, Sales, Service and Technical Support around the world

ISO 9001:2008 Certified in NA and Germany

Lanco Integrated

Industrial Robotic Applications

Deployment Requirements

•Speed

•Accuracy/Repeatability

•Payload

•Dexterity

•Environmental Factors

•Super Clean Requirement

Industrial Robotic Applications

Challenges

• Required Skills/Expertise

• Safety Measures

• Deployment Time

• Total Cost of Ownership

• Purchase Price

• Safety, Skills in Maintenance, etc…

• Redeployment

Collaborative Robots

Highlight Benefits

•Safety

•Working side-by-side with human

•Ease of Deployment & Use

•Combining AI technology

Application Considerations

Traditional Collaborative

Speed Very High Relatively lower for Safety Reason

Accuracy & Repeatability

Very High

up to .01mm

Relatively lower

Up to .1mm

Payload High Average*

Possible Models

• Collaborative Robots replacing Traditional

• Replacing a traditional assembly line with a lean cell concept deployed with C.R.

• Collaborative Robots collaborating with Traditional Robots

System Approach

• Robots communicating with one another

• Assembly Line

• Factory Line

• Global Production Facilities