Industrial robots perform the tasks that are dangerous, repetitive or beyond human consistency. Their value is not only labour substitution: in welding, painting and assembly they deliver repeatability that directly determines product quality.
Common configurations
- Articulated (6-axis) — the general-purpose workhorse for welding, handling and assembly.
- SCARA — fast horizontal assembly and pick-and-place.
- Delta — very high speed for packaging and sorting.
- Cartesian / gantry — large work envelopes and heavy payloads.
- Collaborative (cobot) — designed to work alongside people with force and speed limiting.
Where the maintenance cost sits
- Gearboxes and reducers — the highest-value wear item; backlash and grease condition determine life.
- Servo motors and drives — encoder failure and drive ageing are the usual electrical faults.
- Harnesses — the dress pack flexes continuously and is a classic fatigue failure on axis 4-6.
- Batteries — the encoder backup battery is cheap and its failure is expensive.
- Teach pendant and controller — boards, fans and power supplies.
- Tooling — grippers, torches and their consumables.
Sourcing robot spares
Give the robot model, the controller type and the exact part number, and where possible the axis the part belongs to. Keep a controller backup and a current image of the robot program: when a controller board is replaced, the hardware is straightforward but the configuration and calibration are the real work. For gearboxes and motors, verify the calibration procedure before dismantling — losing the mastering data turns a repair into a full recalibration.
References we have recently quoted in this category
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Related reading
- Obsolete PLC, Sensor & Motor Parts: A Cross-Reference Workflow
- MRO Spare Parts Management
- Spare Parts Management: Principles and Practice