23 March 2018
Cobots, digital assistance systems, edge computing and transport drones will ensure admiring trade visitors. Whoever thought that future changes in the field of assembly and handling technology would take place quietly as in the past will be in for a big surprise at the international leading trade fair in Munich. Industry 4.0 is now real! With positive effects for all: for employees, thanks to new tools such as data glasses and tablets to the more varied work content it offers, for producers who can assemble intelligently, efficiently and economically, and for consumers who can expect increased customer orientation.
The smallest automation components play the largest role in digital networking. Intelligent sensor generations are meant here, which collect, process and forward data directly on the scene with increasingly more complex algorithms in real time. This is made possible thanks to edge computing. In contrast to cloud computing, the performance of increasingly smaller and less expensive microcontrollers is used for distributed data processing. Thanks to edge computing, urgently needed intelligence can simply be relocated in the sensor.
Industrial gripping is also supposed to change radically in the upcoming years. The focus lies on intelligent, networked and sensitive gripping systems, with which the production scenarios of Industry 4.0 and human-robot collaboration can be realized. The spectrum ranges from intelligent grippers for integrated process monitoring to co-act grippers for collaborative applications and all the way to high-end grippers with sensory aura.
The cooperating robots (cobots) have also taken technological quantum leaps, and many are now fully usable in practice. Fraunhofer IPA has proven that interaction with cobots not only makes manual jobs more interesting, but also that digital assistants provide essential relief on the worker level.
http://www.automatica-munich.com
automatica 2018: Assembly and Handling Technology
Industry 4.0 and digital networking are fundamentally changing assembly processes. The dimension of this development will be visible for the first time at automatica 2018 on the grounds of Messe München from June 19 to 22.
 Photo: SickCobots, self-navigating transport systems and drones working together: Industry 4.0 and digital networking make it possible. |
The smallest automation components play the largest role in digital networking. Intelligent sensor generations are meant here, which collect, process and forward data directly on the scene with increasingly more complex algorithms in real time. This is made possible thanks to edge computing. In contrast to cloud computing, the performance of increasingly smaller and less expensive microcontrollers is used for distributed data processing. Thanks to edge computing, urgently needed intelligence can simply be relocated in the sensor.
Industrial gripping is also supposed to change radically in the upcoming years. The focus lies on intelligent, networked and sensitive gripping systems, with which the production scenarios of Industry 4.0 and human-robot collaboration can be realized. The spectrum ranges from intelligent grippers for integrated process monitoring to co-act grippers for collaborative applications and all the way to high-end grippers with sensory aura.
The cooperating robots (cobots) have also taken technological quantum leaps, and many are now fully usable in practice. Fraunhofer IPA has proven that interaction with cobots not only makes manual jobs more interesting, but also that digital assistants provide essential relief on the worker level.
http://www.automatica-munich.com
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