Robotics Business Review

READY Academy Helps Address Skilled Labor Shortage

Organization: READY Robotics
Country: USA
Website: www.ready-robotics.com/
Year Founded: 2016
Number of Employees: 11-50
Innovation Class: Business & Management Innovation
Innovation Subclass: Social Good

The skilled labor shortage limiting manufacturing productivity is expected to grow to 2.4 million unfilled jobs by 2028.

Description:
In October 2020, after a trial with the East Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute (eKAMI), READY Robotics launched its READY Academy to the general public. The free, online educational platform is designed to teach manufacturing professionals how to design, program, deploy, manage and scale automation.

It includes 75-plus hours of original educational videos, covering everything from project assessment, end-of-arm tooling, parts presentation, robot safety, robot programming, building machine tending tasks, and more. READY Academy also enables students to learn to program multiple brands of robots.

Analysis:
READY Academy addresses the skilled labor shortage affecting the manufacturing industry by enabling anyone to learn the skills needed to design and deploy automation. The skilled labor shortage limiting manufacturing productivity is expected to grow to 2.4 million unfilled jobs by 2028. And the current educational system is insufficient to teach advanced manufacturing skills needed, much less the robot programming skills needed to support the deployment of automation at a scale.

READY Robotics believes education and ease of use are keys to unlocking automation for a wider variety of manufacturers. And the READY Academy could play a critical role in addressing the skilled labor shortage. – Steve Crowe

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