Intend to get a robot but not sure which one to get?

[dharan]

Hi , my company is intending to get a robot. Currently we are looking at ABB and KUKA. Out of which we are not sure which one to choose. Can anyone help? I need to know the pros and cons of each robot and their after services. My company is situated in Singapore.

I have talk to both the sales representatives. Their have given a overall picture but what I need to know is over the years, how well does the robot works? What are the problems I will face? How is the after service?
 
Please Help!

Thank you

[TylerRobertson]

What's the application, and important criteria?

both robots are excellent, and since it seems you're buying new, then any qualms I have with old controllers is out of the picture.
I haven't dealt with Kuka support much  (I'm in Canada), so I don't know how it is (although I also haven't had to call them, so take that as you will)
but I know that ABB has a lot of service locations and have been excellent tech-support wise.

[Rosy]

Hi Guys...

TylerRobertson is right, the most important thing is to know what kind of application we are talking about.
If it's a welding application, I recommend Kuka because it'is more easy to program welding paths and welding commands.
But if this work require a lot of logic and have to communicate with many different peripheral, I would buy ABB because it offers much more communication and logical instructions. For example: In ABB IRC5 you read outputs in you program (not only inputs).

Good Look on your decision 

[dharan]

Thank you for the advice. Will be using the robot for welding application and I am completely new to programming. I would rather have a soft ware which would be easy to learn and work with.

My company deals will laser cutting and bending of parts (various sizes). We want to include one more service to our clients, which is laser welding.

What we will require will be a robot which will be flexible at the same time reliable ( large quantity). There should not be a huge variation or tolerance level.

Once again thank you for the advice and please continue to pour in with your advice. I need them.

 

[jseger]

we have kukas here for welding and they are awesome.  although we have an old motoman and that's still the best yet, but it's not very easy to any wiring on it at all.  so that's why we went to kuka.  it's easy to wire stuff up to it.

we looked at abb a little bit.  their support has to be better than kuka's.

[Stormtrooper]

I have used a variety of robots over the years and tend to lean towards Motoman, they are very easy to programme, especially the NX. Motoman have listened carefully to their end users and have developed a great package.
Panasonic is also another good friend of mine, although they do tend to be a bit awkward for programming compared to Motoman.

[TylerRobertson]

yeah, the nx has a pretty straightforward environment, with a structure that lets you fairly easily establish the amount of control.
I'm also partial to the touch-screen, in that every other controller I use, I end up poking the screen, forgetting it's not.