Industrial robotics in Latin America

World Congress on Industrial Automation

July 20-22, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Kevin Amos

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Adv Robot Autom

Abstract :

The use of industrial robots as a key element within an automated process is now the norm in the industrial environment across the world but despite this there are still some countries where this is not currently the case. The presentation looks at the South American market where with the exception of Brazil there are very few robots currently being deployed. What is the current robot exposure in these countries and how will this market evolve over the coming years. The countries considered for this presentation are: Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. Phoenix Control Systems Ltd. has had a lot of success introducing small robotic production cells around the world across many disciplines and is now looking very actively at this Latin American market. We have recently opened offices in Mexico to facilitate expansion into this new area. Looking at the figures for robot usage in these countries we see that in 2013 we have a mere 251 robots shipped collectively across these countries against 1,400 for Brazil alone and 30,000 over the rest of the American continent! The overall robot stock is even more telling with a low key 1900 robots collectively against 8,500 for Brazil and 240,000 over the rest of the American continent. The presentation will take a look at which of these countries has had success in introducing robots into their automated processes and what are the particular disciplines where they have been used. The presentation will also look at what the main robot manufacturers are doing to increase robot usage and sales in these particular countries.