Today, industrial robots are an essential part of many manufacturing processes across a broad range of market sectors. Robots, as part of a modern manufacturing strategy, bring a host of benefits including process consistency; improvements in productivity quality and yield; high levels of flexibility and the ability to free humans from dirty, tiring or hazardous working environments.

Image caption: Dr. Jan Antonis

(Image caption above: KMF's new TruBend Cell 7000.)

Image caption: New investment for Ford Cologne Electrification Centre for the manufacture of electric vehicles, Ford’s first such facility in Europe.

“One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the accumulating human toll continues to raise concerns, even as growing vaccine coverage lifts sentiment. High uncertainty surrounds the global economic outlook, primarily related to the path of the pandemic.

Caption for above image: Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO, Volvo Group.