Features and Development of SCARA Robot
Question:
Discuss about the Promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurial.
The advent of technology has brought a number of new changes in our perception of the reality leading to a number of issues in the perception of technology. Robotics is the modern technology of the rise of a number of new methods of technology which has led to man made machines to ease a number of physical and mental task of the humans (Williams, 2016). The different changes in technology through time, from the invention of the wheel to the modern heavy machineries and heavy working tools aim towards the overall development of the human society by helping them in their development. The invention and the innovation in the modern technology has greatly helped the development of mankind and the society. The invention is the creation of something new which has never existed before in history and the innovation is a considerable change that can be brought in the different existing technologies to aid their development. For example, the invention of computers was an invention the use of the different operating systems and the technologies making the computational power better were innovation. Developed countries like Singapore are continuously using better technologies for the dispersion of better technologies to aid the growth and development of the country in the field of technology. The process still faces a number of challenges which need to be mitigated to understand the different organizational problems in the city. the issues which need to be focused on by the government to address the different needs of the society should focus on their needs basing the technological change on them.
The SCARA is one of the most important inventions as far as the industrial robots are concerned. Hiroshi Makino of Yamanashi University first designed the Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm (SCARA) for assembly jobs in large scale industries. The technological innovation behind the operations and the mechanism of the SCARA robots was a new age technology during its time. The robot was first assembled by Sankyo Seiki, Pentel and NEC in the year 1981 (Makino, 2014). It was one of the first robots of its kind therefore it was tough for the people understand the working mechanism of the different operating processes of the robot. The robot on the other hand also focused on the different industrial processes of the time to ease them. One of the major problems of the robot was that its arms worked in the XY and is and the Z axis remained constant. The different axis helped in the different manufacturing processes but they also limit the movement of the machinery. The invention and the overall development was also limited by the assisting software issues that were in that time making it relatively difficult to operate and train the employees. These inventions also faced tough opposition of the different employees who were losing their jobs due to the usage of these machineries in the factories.
The innovation of the SCARA has come a long way since its invention due to a number of technological innovations that have taken place making it easy for the robots to be operated using easy user interfaces and programable multiple operations that can be performed by the robot. The different innovation in this regard work in the context of improving the accuracy and the performance of the robot along with the different aspects of its performance. Gradually the different parts of the operations of the robot were made easily programable by the different operating procedure and incorporating sensors and using a number of better programs to aid their operations (CHENG and HU, 2017). The different operating processes related to the SCARA and its usability across the different sectors of the operations have gradually increased with time leading to a number of changes. The technological aspects have grown widely and continues to grow exponentially but there is a major issue in the pricing of the different products. SCARA being industrial robot is hefty priced and the pricing may not make buying it viable for the factories to constantly upgrade. The different aspects relating to the growth of the different operational process and the newer methods of operation leads to the need of more training and help in the operations of the newer devices. The SCARA being an operations-based robot also cannot be changed frequently as they have to be operated constantly and any change will need a disruption in the operations of the organization which often not preferred by the different factories. There is also an issue of the issue of acceptance of the newer technologies as there is a paradigm shift towards the authentic and the handmade products which have given the different technologies a strong market share.
Challenges Faced in the Implementation of Modern Technologies in the Industrial Sector
The enabling and the acceptance of the newer technologies in different industrial sectors need a number of support of the government for the proper implementation of the different strategies for the usage of robots in the different factories in the country. there are a number of ways in which the government can help in the acceptance of the robots and technology in the daily use of the various small business status in the country. The two challenges faced in the acceptance of the new technology (Gosens, Lu & Coenen, 2015). The constant growth in the development of the small business sector and the persuasion of the government of the usage of the alternative forms of technologies to ease the task in the different factories. The different issues faced in the organizations are the training and the economic issues to be taken care of so that the inculcation of the use of the different aspects of the technological use and the different training issues that may affect the acceptance of the new technologies in the different social aspects.
The economic issues arise because the use of the modern technology comes at huge costs and it requires an intervention of the government to make it easily accessible for the common people. The government of Singapore has focused towards the growth of the new and the modern methods of technologies in the different industries. The different industries need the help of the government as the cost of installation of the modern technologies is quite high and the overall cost of the machinery is also very high (Mok, 2015). The cost of the machinery cannot be borne by the person starting a small business alone. The other issue that is faced by the new startups is the understanding of the new businesses. The cost of the installation and the machinery itself is quite high beforehand and it is therefore not conducive for the training of the new employees. Therefore, it is extremely important for the different government bodies to train the employees regarding the different operations and the maintenance of the different issues that the machinery might face in the long run. The government intervention plays an important role in the success of the strategy as the implementation needs a strong economic background of the operator of the industries.
The training and the newer processes of the information is one of the major hurdle in the acceptance of the new technology. the workers of Singapore are more focused on the different working schedules and the content upgradation process will cause them to constantly upgrade their technical skill to operate the machinery. The technical upgradation of the skills is not conducive economically and for the time management of the different employees in the city. moreover, it is seen to be tedious for the employees of the people over a certain age to learn new skills related to the technological change in the society. In this context the government needs a number of different types of interventions to help the training of the employees (Zeng, 2017). The employees of the different organizations operate different types of machinery and therefore need different types of training, it is therefore more conducive to make the training free for the different employees which will help in the better acculturation of the new technology. the government also has to make sure that the training schedules should be flexible thereby helping in the growth and development of the different industries. The government in this context should also make sure that the different users are well aware of the different types of operations and machinery making it easy for them to choose an occupation of choice and improve their trade skills in the society.
Therefore, in the essay it is seen that the different technologies that re introduced in the city. the invention and the innovation of the different technologies are the basic tenet of the success of any country or organization. The need of the robots in the modern context in the modern context is undoubted. The different issues to be highlighted in the different various implementations of the idea must be mitigated to ensure proper success and success. The government interventions help in industrializing the change in the different sectors while making sure that need of the technological changes are sustainable and evenly distributed.
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