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Applied roboticsPractitioner8 hrsIn person / Blended

Working Alongside a Cobot

Collaborative robots share a workspace with people, which makes them an operational and behavioural question rather than only a technical one. Hands-on with the daily reality: starting it, guiding it, stopping it, and knowing when not to.

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Runs most often inManufacturing and industrialsLogistics and supply chain

What participants can do afterwards

  • Start, guide and safely stop a collaborative robot
  • Set up a simple repeatable task and verify it runs correctly
  • Recognise the conditions where a cobot should not be used
  • Escalate a fault rather than improvising a fix
  • Run the daily checks that keep the cell safe to start

Modules

4 modules, 8 facilitated hours.

  1. 1.Start, guide, stop

    2.5 hrs

    Hands-on with the basic operating cycle and the stop conditions.

    • Operate a collaborative robot safely

  2. 2.Setting a repeatable task

    3 hrs

    Teaching a simple task and verifying it runs correctly.

    • Set up and verify a repeatable task

  3. 3.When not to use it

    1.5 hrs

    The conditions where a cobot is the wrong answer, and escalation.

    • Recognise when a cobot should not be used

  4. 4.The daily checks

    1 hrs

    The start-of-shift routine: what to look at, what to log, and what means the cell does not start today.

    • Run a start-of-shift check and act on what it finds

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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