Robotics Power Supplies Overview
At Emerson Network Power - Embedded Power, our engineers have been designing and developing power supply products for the robotics market for over 35 years. Our products have helped pave the way for advancements in a wide variety of robotics applications, including automated assembly, manufacturing and packaging systems, goods handling and transport robots, digitally programmable pick-and-place systems and portal robots.
Key attributes of power supplies for robotics applications are a wide operating temperature range, high efficiency and reliability, and small form factors, DIN rail mounting, ingress protection.
Opportunities
- The global market for industrial robots was worth approximately $6.2 billion in 2008, excluding software, peripherals and systems engineering.
- By the end of 2007, there were around 1 million industrial robots in use, worldwide. About 60% of these are articulated robots, and about 22% are gantry robots.
- The automotive industry is the largest user of industrial robots.
- Although the global economic crisis has severely impacted sales of industrial robots – especially in the key automotive sector – the need to automate industrial processes to improve efficiency and safety of the work place remains constant, and is expected to lead to renewed growth between 2010 and 2012.
Robotics Applications That We Power
Emerson Network Power - Embedded Power provides a complete suite of power conversion solutions to meet the needs of robotics applications.
- Automated assembly
- Automated manufacturing
- Automated packaging
- Warehouse management
- Goods handling
- Goods transport
- Pick-and-place systems
- Portal robots
For more information on Robotic Power Supplies and Sales Support
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Why Emerson Network Power - Embedded Power?
Worldwide, there are several robotic power supply manufacturers to choose from, many of which produce good products. One of the leading companies is Emerson Network Power - Embedded Power, which is responsible for the well-known Astec and Artesyn brands. Together, these two product brands encompass literally thousands of AC-DC power supplies and DC-DC converters. Emerson offers a large variety of standard, modified and custom AC-DC power supplies covering a 2 to 4,920 watt power band, together with an extensive range of DC-DC converters covering a 3 to 700 watt power band, to most of the world's most leading manufacturers of robotic equipment.
