Effective Utilization of Industrial Robots—A Job and Skills Analysis Approach

Abstract

Abstract The comparative abilities and limitations of industrial robots and humans are reviewed. This comparison leads to the development of a robot oriented job and skills analysis method with a two-fold objective: 1) to optimize a robot's task-performance, and 2) to guide the specification of the appropriate robot for given tasks. An example of water pump assembly by a robot is used to illustrate the proposed method and its usefulness.