A SAW Mechanism for Investigating the Status of Industrial Robots Under Comprehensive Sustainable Aspects

1. Introduction

Presently; manufacturers are continuously seeking performance measures onto the purchased machineries and equipment. Additionally; managers having high technical capability are facing problems in opting significant machineries and equipment due to numerous available alternatives with wide range of performance characteristics with distinct technical features into them. In recent years; production managers and engineers have stresses on finding fruitful and less expensive ways for producing products and thus; they have started towards adapting robots for executing jobs (Bard, 1986). It is found that replacing employees with robots is an inevitable choice for organizations in the service sector (Qureshi and Syed, 2014). Robot reciprocates a mechanical arm and usually defined as an electro mechanical machine that is directed by a computer program in order to complete the assigned task (Kapoor and Tak, 2005; Rao et al., 2011; Parkan and Wu, 1999). The ability of robots to respond towards a changing environment makes a robot superior as compared to other automated machines (Bard, 1986). Kootbally (2016) disclosed that robots capabilities can abundantly automate the assembly planning tasks. Thus; he offered a model based on robot capabilities to be utilized by the manufacturers for recognizing the appropriate robots for the appropriate tasks. Fernando et al., (2016) underlined that the exploitation of robots is substantial for industrial applications and business competitiveness. They examined the relevancy of robot in food industry and disclosed robots provide a fruitful support in reducing cost, lifting business productivity and customer's loyalty in addition to food safety and quality. They found the suitable application of robot in handling food material and packaging them in food industry. Bogue (2018) disclosed the application of robots in construction industry and found that robots are playing an important role in improving the process efficiency in construction industry. He disclosed the availability and existence of varieties of robots under construction industry and unveil that some more robots are at an advanced stage of development to be used for improving construction activities. Zielinska (2016) stated that the industrial robots are service robots and disclosed that the industrial robots can be easily implemented into non-manufacturing operations for availing numerous services. He defined robots as an actuated mechanism programmable device; which owns certain degree of freedom for moving within its environment for performing their intended tasks based on sensing without human intervention. Bogue (2018) stated that robots are currently exercising a reliable impact and are inevitably for attaining future outputs. He additionally stressed on the development of new technologies for devising potential robots; which can yield significant economic, operational, environmental and other benefits.