INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The strategic collaboration between Hurco Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HURC), a global leader in CNC machine tools and control technologies, and Universal Robots (UR), a pioneer in collaborative robotics, has culminated in the development of a revolutionary automation solution aimed at tackling the most significant challenge that manufacturers face today – the pervasive, and increasing, shortage of machinists and other skilled labor.
While the benefits of automation have been obvious for years, the costs associated with implementing custom solutions has remained a high barrier to adoption, particularly for Hurco's target demographic of high-mix manufacturers. The success of the Hurco-UR collaboration stems from our shared philosophy of bringing usable technology to the masses. What Hurco did for CNC machine controls, having invented conversational programming, UR did for robotics, by empowering end-users to program and operate cobots easily and safely.
Hurco's new Conversational Automation Job Manager combines the power of these two systems by orchestrating and controlling the cobot and CNC machine as a singular system. This not only frees up the tightening number of available workers from performing tedious and monotonous manual machine tending tasks, but also allows manufacturers to gain long term control over their ability to meet their future production demands. With Hurco's patent-pending job setup technology, manufacturers can change jobs in less than five minutes without having to learn how to program a robot. By offering complete and fully integrated plug-and-play solutions, designed and developed by Hurco engineers, today's manufacturers can have full confidence they will be up and running independently with robotic machine tending in less than a day’s time.
“The future of manufacturing lies in smart automation solutions,” said Greg Volovic, President and CEO of Hurco Companies, Inc. “By partnering with Universal Robots, we’ve developed a cutting-edge product that not only addresses the immediate labor shortage, but also brings a practical and user-friendly approach to automation adoption. Together, we are transforming the way manufacturers think about automation.”
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About Hurco Companies, Inc.
Your expertise combined with our technology produces quality parts more profitably—that's mind over metal. That's Hurco. Hurco Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HURC) is an industrial technology company that designs and produces interactive computer controls, software and computerized machine tools for the worldwide metal cutting and metal forming industry. The end market for Hurco's products consists primarily of independent job shops and short-run manufacturing operations within large corporations in industries such as aerospace, defense, medical equipment, energy, transportation and computer equipment. The company is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with manufacturing operations in Taiwan and China, and sells its products through direct and indirect sales forces throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Hurco has sales, application engineering support and service subsidiaries in Canada, China, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States of America.
About Universal Robots
Universal Robots is a leading provider of collaborative robots (cobots) used across a wide range of industries and in education. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Odense, Denmark, with Americas headquarters in Novi, MI, Universal Robots aims to create a world where people work with robots, not like robots. Its mission is simple: Automation for anyone. Anywhere. Since introducing the world's first commercially viable cobot in 2008, Universal Robots has developed a product portfolio reflecting a range of reaches and payloads and has sold over 75,000 cobots worldwide. An extensive ecosystem has grown around the company's cobot technology creating innovation, choice for customers and a wide range of components, kits and solutions to suit every application.
Learn more at: www.universal-robots.com
