Universal Robots
Easy programming
Fast set up
Flexible deployment
Collaborative and safe robots
Fastest payback
Simple | Flexible | Affordable
As the UK authorized integrator for Universal Robots, RNA work closely with Universal Robots to provide collaborative robot solutions to our customers.
Universal Robots have developed highly flexible, easily programmable, high quality but low-cost collaborative robot arms that can be used in almost any industry. Unlike traditional industrial robots, which are big, expensive, and work inside safety enclosures, this new generation of collaborative robots is designed to be flexible, easy to program, and safe to operate near people.
The complete range of Universal Robots offers significant productivity and safety return in the industry for your automation investment.
Products
Applications
Automate virtually anything with a collaborative robot arm from Universal Robots. From gluing and mounting to pick and place, and packaging, a robotic arm can streamline and optimise processes across your production operation.
Pick and place
Betacom
Assembly
Country: New Zealand
Company size: 50 employees
Products: UR10
Industry: Metal and machining, electronics
Automation Challenges Solved: Mounting and assembly of LED lighting solutions to high quality standards
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, fast payback
Continental
Pick and place, Machine tending
Country: Spain
Company size: 600 employees
Industry: Automotive
Automation challenges solvedProductivity improvement by bringing down changeovers by 50%, from 40 to 20 minutes. Simple programming and implementation enabled Continental to keep the control of the robot in-house.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexibility, collaboration and employee safety.
Glidewell Laboratories
Pick & Place, Vision Camera
Country: USA
Company size: 3,500 employees
Products: Dental crowns
Industry: Pharma and chemistry, Plastic and polymers
Automation challenges solvedOptimized a long milling cycle not feasible for human tending from 27 hours to 18 hours.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Collaborative & Safe
Tegra Medical
Machine tending, Pick and place
Country: United States
Company size: 600 employees
Products: Tegra Medical focuses exclusively on precision machining and contract manufacturing services for the medical device industry, producing components and assemblies for leading edge surgical and interventional companies, from prototyping to full production
Automation challenges solvedLoading and unloading parts into grinders and lathes in production cells placed in confined spaces requiring human-machine interaction.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, fast payback
Marka
Collaborative UR3 robots optimize bottle cap assembly at MARKA
Country: Italy
Company size: 30 employees
Industry: Chemical
Automation Challenges Solved: Closing caps on bottles. The Collaborative robots uses their build in force control to ensure the correct force is being applied the same way every time.
Key Value Drivers: Fast setup, Easy programming, Collaborative & Safe, Fast payback
Mjolkursamsalan
Pick and place
Country: Iceland
Company size: 80 employees
Products: Dairy
Industry: Food
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Orkla Foods
Machine Tending
Country: sweden
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: Food
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, fast payback
OTV Plast
Pick and place
Country: Denmark
Company size: 31 employees
Products: Plastic parts
Automation challenges solved: Reduced the amount of repetitive work for employees
Key Value Drivers: Collaborative and Safe, Fast Payback, Flexible Deployment, Easy Programming
Nordic Sugar
Pick and place, Quality inspection
Country: Sweden
Company size: 1430 employees
Products: Sugar products for the food industry and retail
Industry: Food and agriculture
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Scott Fetzer Electrical Group
Pick and place, Machine tending, Lab analysis and testing, Gluing, dispensing and welding
Country: United States
Company size: 124 employees
Industry: Electronics and Technology, Metal and Machining
Automation challenges solvedIncreased competitiveness and production output in high-mix low volume production runs using a flexible, mobile robot. Workers relieved from strenuous and monotonous tasks.
Key Value Drivers: Flexible, Easy programming, collaborative and safe.
Ramtec
Hands-on robot programming skills, including application level tasks such as machine tending and PLC networking through Ethernet IP. Students also learn to make customized, 3D printed grippers for the UR robots, using the online schematics of the robots’ face plates.
Country: USA
Company size: About 100 high school students enrolled per year and approximately 200 industry professionals doing adult training at the center annually
Industry: Education
Automation challenges solvedMet local industry demand for educating workforce on collaborative robots.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe, short payback period, flexible deployment.
Injection Moulding
Clamcleats Ltd
Injection moulding, Machine tending
Country: Germany
Company size: 10 employees
Industry: Plastic and polymers
Automation challengues solved:To reduce the risk of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) among employees, Clamcleats Ltd invested in a robot solution to replace manual clipping.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe, Fast Payback.
Dynamic Group
Injection moulding
Country: United States
Company size: 135 employees
Industry: Plastics and Polymers
Products: Based in Minnesota, Dynamic Group is a privately owned contract manufacturer specializing in providing complex injection molded plastic components and assemblies and high precision molds for plastic and powder. The company primarily serves the medical, electronics, and technology industries.
Automation challenges solvedIncreased production output by up to 400%, significant scrap reduced to near zero, workers relieved from repetitive and strenuous tasks, staffing shortages eliminated.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe, short payback period, flexible deployment.
Oticon
Pick and place, Injection moulding, CNC
Country: Denmark
Company size: 3500 employees
Industry: Plastics & polymers, Pharma & chemistry
Automation challenges solvedHearing aid device manufacturer Oticon needed a more flexible robot to handle the tiny hearing device components in its production.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Talbot Technologies
Injection moulding, Pick and place
Country: New Zealand
Products: In-mould labelling
Industry: Integrated technical plastics manufacturer
Automation challenges solvedComplex injection printing
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Collaborative & Safe
Linaset
Plastics and chemical production
Country: Czech Republic
Company size: 750 employees
Products: Plastic mouldings
Industry: Engineering and automotive
Automation challenges solved: Performing repetitive and otherwise physically demanding tasks precisely on a mass scale
Key Value Drivers: Increased safety, productivity and accuracy, reduced costs and fast return on investment
Prysm Industries
Labelling
Country: Australia
Company size: 50 employees
Industry: Packaging production
Automation challenges solved: Consistency and accuracy, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving staff wellbeing
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast set-up, flexible deployment, collaborative and safe
CNC
Leax Group
CNC, Machine tending
Country: Sweden
Company size: 1,100 employees
Products: Drive shafts, main shafts, input and output shafts, drill bits, industrial gearboxes, synchronising and bearing rings and complete propeller shafts for heavy vehicles
Industry: Metal and machining, automotive and subcontractors
Automation challenges solved: The flexible UR robot optimised both production and the use of space while enabling agile manufacturing.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Thiele
CNC, Machine tending
Country: Germany
Company size: 10 employees
Industry: Metal and Machining
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
BOOGs
CNC, Machine tending
Country: France
Company size: 15 employees
Products: Milling, turning and machining parts
Industry: Automotive and subcontractors, Metal and Machinery
Automation challenges solvedRelieved employees of strenuous, repetitive tasks while improving the operational efficiency of the production line.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Flexible Deployment, Fast Set-up and Collaborate & Safe.
Fries Maschinenbau
CNC, Machine tending
Country: Germany
Company size: 10 employees
Products: Manufacturing rotating and milling parts
Industry: Metal and machining
Automation challenges solvedCNC machine loading had been previously done manually in short cycles of 25 – 45 seconds with varying unit quantities. The Universal Robot helped streamline the process while significantly boosting production.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
RSS
CNC
Country: California, USA
Company size: 72 employees
Products: Manufacture of high end plumbing fixtures and fittings for decorative faucets
Industry: Furniture and equipment
Automation challenges solved: Increased production needs are met by addition of UR5, saving costs, giving RSS a competitive edge with overseas manufacturers
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Multi-Wing
Assembly
Country: Czech Republic
Company size: 50 employees
Products: Ventilation to cooling towers for machinery systems
Industry: Metal and machining
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Task Force Tips
CNC machine tending, deburring
Country: California, USA
Company size: 230 employees
Products: Task Force Tips manufactures a wide range of firefighting and water delivery products for municipal, rural, wildland, and military agencies around the globe.
Industry: Metal and machining
Automation challenges solved: Personnel freed up for more complex tasks, downtime eliminated, product quality increased, flexible automation accomplished
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, short payback period, flexible deployment
Whippany Actuation Systems
Universal robots help automate the Aerospace industry
Country: USA
Company size: 170 employees
Products: Whippany Actuation Systems designs and manufactures rotary and linear electro-mechanical actuation systems
Industry: Aerospace and defense
Automation challenges solved: Increased production capacity, improved employee experience, better margins, increased throughput,
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe, Fast payback
Packaging and Palletizing
Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Packaging and palletizing
Country: Denmark
Company size: 130 employees in Assens
Products: Pibe tobacco
Automation challengues solved:Handling of varying/fluctuating basic materials / ingredients.
To be able to build, install, program and troubleshoot the application in internal technical support department.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe, Fast payback
Mjolkursamsalan
Pick and place, Packaging and palletizing
Country: Iceland
Company size: 80 employees
Industry: Food
Products: Diary
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Cascina Italia
Packaging and palletizing
Country: Italy
Company size: 85 employees
Products: Eggs
Industry: Food and agriculture
Automation challenges solved: Relieved employees of strenuous, repetitive tasks while improving the operational efficiency of the production line.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe, Fast Payback
Dynamic Group
Injection molding machine tending, kitting parts into boxes on conveyor
Country: United States
Company size: 135 employees
Industry: Plastics and Polymers
Products: Based in Minnesota, Dynamic Group is a privately owned contract manufacturer specializing in providing complex injection molded plastic components and assemblies and high precision molds for plastic and powder. The company primarily serves the medical, electronics, and technology industries.
Automation challenges solvedIncreased production output by up to 400%, significant scrap reduced to near zero, workers relieved from repetitive and strenuous tasks, staffing shortages eliminated.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe, short payback period, flexible deployment.
Atria
Packaging and palletizing, labelling
Country: Sweden
Company size: 30 employees
Industry: Packaging and palletizing
Products: Atria Scandinavia is one of Northern Europe’s leading manufacturers of vegetarian and gourmet products for convenience markets and retail chains in need of round the clock service
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe, flexible deployment.
Nortura
Picking boxes from a conveyor belt and placing them in the correct positions on a pallet. The palletizing pattern varies from different products and is dynamic to the pallet’s position.
Country: Norway
Company size: 100 employees
Industry: Food Production
Automation Challenges Solved: Provided a cost-effective, flexible, and high-performance palletizing system in one-fifth of the space typically required, allowing employees to focus on high-value activities rather than repetitive tasks.
Key Value Drivers: Collaborative and safe, compact and flexible, cost-effective and reliable.
Orkla Foods
Machine Tending
Country: sweden
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: Food
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, fast payback
Quality Inspection
Lear
Quality inspection
Country: USA
Company size: 132,000 employees worldwide
Products: Car seats
Automation challengues solved:The Universal Robot completes the drilling action on thousands of manually set screws while ensuring the xx through vision guidance.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Collaborative & Safe
Nordic Sugar
Pick and place, Quality inspection
Country: Sweden
Company size: 1430 employees
Products: Sugar products for the food industry and retail
Industry: Food and agriculture
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Ferdinand Wagner
Quality inspection, Gluing, dispensing and welding
Company size: 90 employees
Products: Furniture parts
Industry: Metal and machining
Automation challenges solved: Relieved employees of strenuous, repetitive tasks while improving the operational efficiency of the production line.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Flexible Deployment, Fast Payback.
Glidewell Laboratories
Pick & Place, Vision Camera
Country: USA
Company size: 3,500 employees
Products: Dental crowns
Industry: Pharma and chemistry, Plastic and polymers
Automation challenges solvedOptimized a long milling cycle not feasible for human tending from 27 hours to 18 hours.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Collaborative & Safe
Assembly
Lear
Quality inspection
Country: USA
Company size: 132,000 employees worldwide
Products: Car seats
Automation challengues solved:The Universal Robot completes the drilling action on thousands of manually set screws while ensuring the xx through vision guidance.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Collaborative & Safe
Marka
Collaborative UR3 robots optimize bottle cap assembly at MARKA
Country: Italy
Company size: 30 employees
Industry: Chemical
Automation Challenges Solved: Closing caps on bottles. The Collaborative robots uses their build in force control to ensure the correct force is being applied the same way every time.
Key Value Drivers: Fast setup, Easy programming, Collaborative & Safe, Fast payback
Nissan Motor
UR10 Cobots offer aging workforce solution and reduce relief worker costs for global car manufacturer
Company size: 3200 employees
Products: Automotive components
Industry: Engineering and automotive
Automation challenges solved: Reducing workloads for staff, increasing efficiency and improving performance to help cut unnecessary extra costs.
Key Value Drivers: Increased efficiency, productivity and staff satisfaction, reduced costs and ability to meet larger business goals.
SHAD
Screw driving
Country: Spain
Company size: 201-500
Industry: Automotive (OEM and Production)
Automation challenges solvedImproved the quality of the products while relieving employees of repetitive tasks.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Collaborative and safe, Fast set up, Flexible deployment
TCI
Labelling and assembly
Country: New Zealand
Company size: 100 employees
Industry: Moulded plastics
Automation challenges solvedFreeing up staff for less repetitive tasks, creating more consistent reliable process, reducing costs.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast set-up, flexible deployment, collaboration and safety.
Betacom
Assembly, Pick and place
Country: New Zealand
Company size: 50 employees
Industry: Metal and machining, electronics
Automation challenges solvedMounting and assembly of LED lighting solutions to high quality standards
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, fast payback
Multi-Wing
Assembly
Country: Czech Republic
Company size: 50 employees
Products: Ventilation to cooling towers for machinery systems
Industry: Metal and machining
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Polishing
Paradigm Electronics
Polishing
Country: Canada
Country: Canada
Company size: 250 employees
Products: Paradigm Electronics is a manufacturer of high performance loud speakers and subwoofers. The entire production from R&D to finished product takes place in-house at facilities in Canada.
Automation challenges solvedIncreased production output, eliminating bottlenecks and staff shortages. Workers relieved from the most strenuous polishing tasks.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe, short payback period, built-in force mode.
Machine tending
BJ Gear
Gluing, dispensing and welding, Machine tending
Country: Denmark
Company size: 80 employees
Products: Manufacturing rotating and milling parts
Industry: Machining
Automation challengues solved:Five years ago, BJ-Gear A/S had no robots in its production of 25,000 high-end gear in thousands of variants pr. year. There were simply no robots which were flexible and cheap enough. But now there are operating four modern lightweight robot arm from Universal Robots attending different machines with BJ-Gear.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
BOOGs
CNC, Machine tending
Country: France
Company size: 15 employees
Products: Milling, turning and machining parts
Industry: Automotive and subcontractors, Metal and Machinery
Automation challenges solvedRelieved employees of strenuous, repetitive tasks while improving the operational efficiency of the production line.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Flexible Deployment, Fast Set-up and Collaborate & Safe.
Continental
Pick and place, Machine tending
Country: Spain
Company size: 600 employees
Industry: Automotive
Automation challenges solvedProductivity improvement by bringing down changeovers by 50%, from 40 to 20 minutes. Simple programming and implementation enabled Continental to keep the control of the robot in-house.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexibility, collaboration and employee safety.
Leax Group
CNC, Machine tending
Country: Sweden
Company size: 1,100 employees
Products: Drive shafts, main shafts, input and output shafts, drill bits, industrial gearboxes, synchronising and bearing rings and complete propeller shafts for heavy vehicles
Industry: Metal and machining, automotive and subcontractors
Automation challenges solved: The flexible UR robot optimised both production and the use of space while enabling agile manufacturing.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Ramtec
Hands-on robot programming skills, including application level tasks such as machine tending and PLC networking through Ethernet IP. Students also learn to make customized, 3D printed grippers for the UR robots, using the online schematics of the robots’ face plates.
Country: USA
Company size: About 100 high school students enrolled per year and approximately 200 industry professionals doing adult training at the center annually
Industry: Education
Automation challenges solvedMet local industry demand for educating workforce on collaborative robots.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe, short payback period, flexible deployment.
Etalex
Machine tending
Country: Canada
Company size: 120 employees
Products: Heavy-duty racking systems, metal fixtures and furniture
Industry: Furniture and equipment
Automation challenges solved: Manual labor hours of loading task greatly reduced, safety of the work environment improved
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe, Fast payback
REPLAC-BM
Machine tending
Country: Czech Republic
Industry: Pharma and chemistry
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Stantræk
Machine tending
Country: Denmark
Company size: 28 employees
Products: Processing sheet metal and coils
Industry: Metal and machine
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions
Machine tending
Country: Denmark
Company size: 15,500 employees
Products: Seals in high-tech plastic materials
Industry: Plastic and polymers
Automation challenges solved: Production needs and location layout not suited for robots requiring safety caging
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative, Cage-free & Safe, Fastest payback in the industry
Fries Maschinenbau
CNC, Machine tending
Country: Germany
Company size: 10 employees
Products: Manufacturing rotating and milling parts
Industry: Metal and machining
Automation challenges solvedCNC machine loading had been previously done manually in short cycles of 25 – 45 seconds with varying unit quantities. The Universal Robot helped streamline the process while significantly boosting production.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Scott Fetzer Electrical Group
Pick and place, Machine tending, Lab analysis and testing, Gluing, dispensing and welding
Country: United States
Company size: 124 employees
Industry: Electronics and Technology, Metal and Machining
Automation challenges solvedIncreased competitiveness and production output in high-mix low volume production runs using a flexible, mobile robot. Workers relieved from strenuous and monotonous tasks.
Key Value Drivers: Flexible, Easy programming, collaborative and safe.
Task Force Tips
CNC machine tending, deburring
Country: California, USA
Company size: 230 employees
Products: Task Force Tips manufactures a wide range of firefighting and water delivery products for municipal, rural, wildland, and military agencies around the globe.
Industry: Metal and machining
Automation challenges solved: Personnel freed up for more complex tasks, downtime eliminated, product quality increased, flexible automation accomplished
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, collaborative and safe, short payback period, flexible deployment
Lab Analysis and Testing
AGH University
Lab analysis and testing
Country: Poland
Country: Poland
Company size: 4,151 employees
Products: Medical processing
Automation challenges solvedMixing station for hazardous cytotoxic drugs and testing for more precise gyno-urological procedures.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, Fast Set-Up, Flexible Deployment, Collaborative & Safe
Technical College of Jutland
Schooling the young: Universal Robots on the curriculum
Country: Denmark
Country: Denmark
Company size: 150 employees
Products: Technical education
Industry: Education
Copenhagen University Hospital
Lab Analysis and Testing
Country: Denmark
Industry: Pharma and Chemistry
Automation challenges solvedIncreased production output, staff relieved from handling repetitive tasks with risk of contamination.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, fast setup, collaborative and safe.
Gluing, dispensing and welding
BJ Gear
Gluing, dispensing and welding, Machine tending
Country: Denmark
Company size: 80 employees
Products: Manufacturing rotating and milling parts
Industry: Machining
Automation challengues solved:Five years ago, BJ-Gear A/S had no robots in its production of 25,000 high-end gear in thousands of variants pr. year. There were simply no robots which were flexible and cheap enough. But now there are operating four modern lightweight robot arm from Universal Robots attending different machines with BJ-Gear.
Key Value Drivers: Easy programming, flexible deployment and fast payback
Ferdinand Wagner
Quality inspection, Gluing, dispensing and welding
Company size: 90 employees
Products: Furniture parts
Industry: Metal and machining
Automation challenges solved: Relieved employees of strenuous, repetitive tasks while improving the operational efficiency of the production line.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Flexible Deployment, Fast Payback.
Franke
Gluing and assembly
Country: Switzerland
Company size: 11,000 employees
Products: Milling, turning and machining parts
Industry: Furniture and equipment, Metal and machining
Automation challenges solvedRelieved employees of strenuous, repetitive tasks while improving the operational efficiency of the production line. Reduces material waste.
Key Value Drivers: Easy Programming, Collaborative and safe, Fast Set-up and Fast Payback.
Scott Fetzer Electrical Group
Pick and place, Machine tending, Lab analysis and testing, Gluing, dispensing and welding
Country: United States
Company size: 124 employees
Industry: Electronics and Technology, Metal and Machining
Automation challenges solvedIncreased competitiveness and production output in high-mix low volume production runs using a flexible, mobile robot. Workers relieved from strenuous and monotonous tasks.
Key Value Drivers: Flexible, Easy programming, collaborative and safe.
