Thursday, November 7, 2013

Pros and Cons of the HV-100

With the decline of laborers in the agricultural fields the demand for automated robotic machines has been on the rise. In the past decade we have seen huge changes in the Agriculture Industry that involve some kind of technological innovation. These innovations always carry with pros and cons, i will now describe the advantages and disadvantages from the HV-100.
We will begin with the pros by saying that it will cut cost while enabling other initiatives such as resource management, just in time production, and inventory control. It will cut by 50% the unit handling cost, its less susceptible to worker availability, improves worker safety/health, less susceptible to labor law changes and healthcare changes. As we can see the HV-100 brings you a lot of benefits. Now lets talk about the cons.
Like every other technological adaptation to a business you know its going to be costly. This might be a one time payment but it will be big one. The work of one robot can only do so much, so you would be force to buy more than one depending on how big is your operation. With the first model you can only use four different tasks meaning that you will still need human labor. The average battery time for each robot is only about for hours, and it takes approximately 8 hours to recharge.

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