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Applied roboticsPractitioner8 hrsIn person / Blended

Running and Troubleshooting a Robotic Cell

For the people who own the cell on a shift. Covers the routine - changeovers, first-off checks, common faults - and the judgement of when to fix, when to stop, and when to call someone.

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Runs most often inManufacturing and industrials

What participants can do afterwards

  • Run a changeover and verify the first piece before committing a batch
  • Diagnose the faults that account for most unplanned downtime
  • Decide correctly between recovering, stopping and escalating
  • Keep a maintenance record that is useful to the next shift
  • Hand a live issue to the next shift without losing its history

Modules

4 modules, 8 facilitated hours.

  1. 1.The routine

    2.5 hrs

    Start-up, changeover and first-off verification.

    • Run a changeover and verify the first piece

  2. 2.Common faults

    3 hrs

    The small number of causes behind most unplanned downtime.

    • Diagnose the most common causes of downtime

  3. 3.Fix, stop, or escalate

    1.5 hrs

    Judgement under production pressure, and the handover record.

    • Decide correctly between fixing, stopping and escalating

  4. 4.The shift handover

    1 hrs

    Handing a cell over mid-issue: the record and the conversation that stop the next shift starting from zero.

    • Hand over a cell so the next shift keeps its history

How it is delivered

A facilitator runs the course live, in person or blended. Attendance is taken per session, participants submit work against the modules above, and a facilitator grades it. Those records stay with the organisation and can be exported.

Further reading

Cobot training for the shift, not the integrator is the public briefing that sits next to this course.

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