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As an e-marketing coordinator, Amanda focuses on Robotiq's content management. With her background in marketing, she hopes to bring valuable, relevant, and consistent content to our audience through the blog, social media and video center.

How SEL Eliminated Ergonomic Injuries and Automated 1.4 Million Screws a Year with Robotiq

What does it look like when a single cobot workcell solves a real problem, earns full ROI in under a year, and quietly grows into a 27-station automation program? That's exactly what happened at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) after they deployed Robotiq Cobot Components and the Screwdriving Workcell on their assembly line.

SEL designs, develops, and manufactures digital products and systems that protect, automate, and control critical infrastructure in over 170 countries. With a mission to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical, quality and repeatability are non-negotiable at SEL. When a recurring ergonomic problem started putting operators out of action, they turned to Robotiq to fix it and what started as one workcell became something much bigger.

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Jun 18, 2026 in Case Study. 5 min read time
How SEL Eliminated Ergonomic Injuries and Automated 1.4 Million Screws a Year with Robotiq

What does it look like when a single cobot workcell solves a real problem, earns full ROI in under a year, and quietly grows...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Jun 18, 2026
Read more 5 min read time
Why Do Palletizing Automation Projects Fail? 5 Pitfalls and How to Fix Them

Palletizing automation is one of the clearest wins in end-of-line operations. The ROI is real, the labor savings are immediate,...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on May 27, 2026
Read more 6 min read time
Watch Our Automatica Demo Mashup (Featuring the New Hand-E)

We've had a big week of launches at automatica!

Have you checked out Hand-E yet? It's THE new adaptive gripper for...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Jun 28, 2018
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Define Safety Planes Like a Pro

What's happening on DoF this week?

  • Help out some Pros in setting their safety planes!
  • Have you ever used mobile platforms in...
Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Apr 26, 2018
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How to Do Process Analysis for Machine Tending

When talking about robots with outsiders, they often have preconceived ideas about the great things robots can do. They imagine...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Apr 12, 2018
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How to (Seamlessly) Integrate a Gripper

Once you’ve chosen the gripping technology, it must now be integrated properly into the collaborative cell. Since it is a...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Nov 01, 2017
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A First Robot Monitoring System in Real Time

What's happening on DoF this week?

  • Get access to your robot’s key performance indicators with Insights
  • Share your linear slide...
Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Sep 28, 2017
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Our Biggest Conference Yet Is Approaching: Robotiq User Conference 2017

What's happening on DoF this week? Do you have any expertise with UR andRobotiqproducts? If so, this event might be for you!...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Aug 03, 2017
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Top Three Causes of the Manufacturing Skills Gap

There are three commonly listed causes of the skills gap: Retirement of older workers, lack of skilled workers, lack of desire...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Jun 26, 2017
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