Posted to News on 22nd Mar 2017, 15:20
Universal Robots appoint sales manager for UK and Ireland
As the sale of collaborative robots gathers momentum in the UK and Ireland, Universal Robots (UR) has announced the appointment of Mark Gray to stimulate and manage this growth. He joins the company as Area Sales Manager with more than 25 years of engineering sales and marketing experience across diverse industrial sectors. Based in Doncaster, he is now directly responsible for the UR distributors that serve the home markets.
UR is a world leader in cobot technology with around 12,000 robot arms installed worldwide. Their ability to provide fast, inexpensive and flexible systems for all, including smaller companies, is now striking a chord with manufacturers in the UK and Ireland. Their investment in UR is not only allowing them to reap the benefits of automated production but also explore the opportunities that collaborative working brings.
Not only are cobots taking on the burden of doing repetitive tasks so humans can focus on more engaging work, they are also operating directly alongside skilled workers on complex tasks to increase their productivity. And where it's not possible to completely automate an application, a cobot becomes a smart tool to increase output and quality. Indeed, research is demonstrating that for certain applications, productivity through collaborative working is even greater than a robot-only strategy.
Mark Gray initially qualified as an electrician and chose a career that took him from site engineering and project management to sales. He joins UR from Abtech, a manufacturer of vision systems, where he was Sales Director. The experience Mark has gained through 14 years' service with Abtech is particularly relevant to his new role as it brought him into daily contact with OEMs, SMEs and systems integrators. He therefore has a clear understanding of how each can benefit from cobot technology.
Mark Gray explains: "Automation is a hot topic for manufacturers who are telling me that flexibility is definitely the key to their success. As UR robots can change duty to match production runs, customers can see that greater efficiency is easily achievable. This flexibility is also complemented by the fact that our robots ability can operate in a shared workspace and in a small factory footprint too."
For more information on Universal Robots and their benefits to industry, go to www.universal-robots.com.
