How do you clear away the uncertainty surrounding an abstract concept like Industry 4.0 to reveal the real benefits to daily operation? This was the challenge facing the robotics specialists.
Having spent nearly a decade refining the mechanics of its 3 axis robot solutions, RUNMA found that increasing demands for productivity would require a more intense focus on digital production control. RUNMA shifted its attention to topics that would come to be grouped under the concept of Industry 4.0
Some of the customers had concerns about how such abstract concepts could be implemented in the field – and what economic and productivity gains they actually had to offer. RUNMA realized that, to be successful, these new solutions would have to clear away the clouds of uncertainty to reveal the advantages on the horizon.
The goal of making 3 axis robot smarter and more communicative would therefore begin with the challenge of collecting data already being handled in various peripheral systems and integrating it in a central control system.