Produce Flexibly – Exploit Market Edges

An increasing proliferation of options, shortening product cycles, volatile markets as well as new product innovations have to be profitable from the first moment and mastered with low risk. These arising demands placed on flexibility and scalability overtax modern automation solutions and production systems. Even modern systems can’t reduce the amount of time and cost for retooling and reprogramming along with the associated production stoppages. Adaptive, reconfigurable production systems program themselves within a few minutes, instead of doing it yourself taking many hours or even days. In addition, they adapt to new products or variations and eliminate the weaknesses of current systems. That way, you can produce more flexibly, which opens up new market opportunities.

Our solutions for you:

• Automation with batch sizes down to 1
• Self-teaching, robust 3D image processing
• Automatic process planning and robot programming
• Applicable system and machine intelligence
• Cognitive image processing and systems
• Movement simulation and kinematics analyses
• Easy engineering and (re)configuration of machine and system parts by means of mechatronic components
• Open, embedded, real-time compatible runtime environments for reconfigurable automation and control systems
• Distributed control systems based on IEC 61499
• Adaptive position systems for manufacturing machines and robotics