Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.23
September 28, 2020
…Demonstrator, is striking yet another partnership, this time with Siemens Digital Industries Software to advance development using digital twins. VSI Labs, which researches active safety and AV technologies, is partnering with Siemens, using its PAVE360 platform to create digital twin simulations for the validation and testing of all the processors, electronics, sensors, and systems that are powering the VSI Labs Capability Demonstrator. The latter is an advanced AV development vehicle equipped with components from best-in-class automotive technology leaders, including ARM for processors, NXP for the central compute platform, FLIR for thermal cameras, and Dataspeed for a by-wire control systems, among…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.82
May 21, 2019
…that enables simultaneous five-axis control. When combined with the Siemens Sinumerik 840D CNC, complex geometries can be printed faster and easier, according to Optomec. “Optomec has once again pushed DED printing capability to new heights,” said Tim Bell, additive manufacturing industry manager at Siemens in a press release. “By leveraging the outstanding system flexibility and openness of the Sinumerik 840D CNC, Optomec adds new capabilities to its LENS solutions. With its innovative HMI, Sinumerik bridges the gap between traditional machining and additive manufacturing technologies. The 840D provides maximum control performance supporting a wide range of programming approaches that can be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.74
September 12, 2022
…motion planning and control software for industrial robots with Siemens Process Simulate. The companies said this will enable Siemens customers to use RapidPlan without leaving Process Simulate as part of their regular workflows. “Robot programming and task planning has been a time-consuming—and frankly, difficult—process for far too long,” said George Konidaris, co-founder and chief roboticist of Realtime Robotics. “We founded Realtime Robotics to change that once and for all.” “This integration with Siemens will make it much easier for those using Process Simulate to eliminate collisions and quickly take robot task plans from simulation to reality,” he added. Founded in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.62
February 04, 2019
Siemens introduces Camstar Electronics Suite software, manufacturing execution system (MES) for electronics. This configurable and scalable MES solution enables printed circuit board (PCB) and box assemblers to meet traceability requirements, improve efficiency levels and control manufacturing operations through direct Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity with machines and production lines. Camstar Electronics Suite creates a digital thread to empower electronics companies to further their digitalization strategy in line with Industry 4.0. By closing the loop between engineering and the shop floor, and enabling quick reactions to design modifications, manufacturers can shorten product lifecycles, increase production complexities and improve quality across the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.29
June 26, 2020
Siemens has coupled key pieces of its software and hardware technology to create a new solution designed to help manufacturers balance the need to ramp up production while maintaining employee safety as the economy opens back up in the wake of COVID-19 shutdowns. The solution pairs Siemens’ SIMATIC Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) with its Xcelerator portfolio of engineering, operational, IT, IIoT, and cloud solutions to create a workplace distancing solution that helps minimize employee exposure risks while optimizing productivity. In what many are calling the “new normal” or “next normal,” companies are scrambling to figure out how to address…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.21
July 13, 2020
…a subsidiary of global logistics services provider DHL, and Siemens Healthineers, a medical technology company, and subsidiary of Siemens AG. DHL officials said that this collaboration will have a sharp emphasis on digital and robotics technology usage, in order for the Siemens Healthineers supply chain, specifically its U.S.-based Customer Service Material Logistics Unit, to provide continuous quality and cost improvements, which, in turn, are expected to result in strong delivery performance and customer satisfaction levels. A major component of this collaboration centers on what DHL called a new 260,000 square-foot state-of-the-art Memphis, Tenn.-based World Distribution Center (WDC), which will be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.66
May 23, 2019
…simulation tools for specific aspects of self-driving car designs, Siemens PLM Software has just released PAVE360, a validation environment for automotive chips that creates a digital twin to simulate the entire complex ecosystem, not just the next-generation silicon. “The automotive industry has been focused on a mechanical and electromechanical approach to solving problems—things where model-based system engineering is an effective solution,” says David Fritz, global technology manager for automotive at Siemens PLM Software. “Yet as soon as you get into the complexity of tossing in AI and converged ECUs (electronic control units), it reaches the point where a different approach…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.62
March 29, 2021
…that its collaborative robots will soon be part of Siemens' Totally Integrated Automation, or TIA, portal. This will enable systems integrators and machine builders to integrate cobot arms into complex manufacturing environments, it said. The UR cobots will become part of the Simatic Robot Library in the TIA environment through an interpreter interface expected to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the company. “Machinery and plant engineers, as well as manufacturers with large production facilities, will benefit from our cobots‘ TIA integration,” said Bernd Meier, director of global key accounts and OEMS at Universal Robots. “Thanks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.81
September 05, 2019
Ranked as the top manufacturing simulation software vendor, Siemens scored highest in implementation and topped four of the 10 scoring criteria, states global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Dassault Systèmes came in a close second, having scored the highest in innovation and topped three of the 10 criteria. The Manufacturing Simulation Software Competitive Assessment analyzed and ranked seven major vendors in the industry—Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, Arena (Rockwell Automation), AnyLogic, FlexSim, Simio and Simul8—using ABI Research’s innovation/implementation criteria framework, the company notes. For this competitive assessment, innovation scores examined the technical capabilities of the vendor’s software and implementation scores focused…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.61
June 25, 2019
…news, the ExOne Company has announced a partnership with Siemens to benefit industrial customers in the foundry, aerospace, automotive, energy and other markets. Siemens’ Digital Enterprise Portfolio of software and automation technology including MindSphere are fully implemented on the all-new S-Max Pro sand printer. The S-Max Pro is being launched at the 2019 GIFA International Foundry Trade Fair. “With this expanded partnership, ExOne will deliver even more value to our foundry and manufacturing customers who rely on our industrial 3D printers,” said ExOne CEO John Hartner. “We are proud to be the first industrial 3D printer to fully integrate the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.48
November 19, 2020
Siemens Digital Industries Software has filled in another piece in its Simcenter simulation portfolio, this time adding an Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) data collection capability aimed at accelerating the development of autonomous vehicles. Through a partnership with b-plus, a maker of ADAR technology, the new Simcenter SCAPTOR offering combines hardware and software to record, visualize, and replay high-fidelity raw data along with a way to link that ADAS data to the central development process. Because ADAS and autonomous vehicles take over driving tasks that have traditionally performed by humans, they require massive amounts of data and AI-driven intelligence to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.88
September 29, 2021
…and other operations in manufacturing. It has worked with Siemens on using simulation to develop its products. Mech-Mind adds to existing funding In May, Mech-Mind said it had already raised a total of more than $100 milllion. At the time, the company claimed that it was “one of the world's most funded AI+ industrial robotics startups.” IDG Capital and Meituan led Mech-Mind's Series C1 round, with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital China and Source Code Capital. Taihecap was an investment bank advisor. Mech-Mind said it serves verticals such as automotive, home appliance, food and beverage, and pharmacy. The company's…
