May 11, 2022
The cloud has transformed many different industries, companies and applications, so why would robotics be any different? While “lifting and shifting” basic functionality such as fleet management, analytics, and workflow development to the cloud is valuable from an availability and uptime perspective, the cloud has not yet provided the truly transformative, one plus one equals three effect in robotics that it has enabled with other industries. In this session, Melonee Wise, a pioneer in autonomous mobile robots, will share innovative use cases and examples of how cloud technology and applications have changed and will continue to change the face of mobile robots.
The labor gap triggered by the “Silver Tsunami” presents a massive challenge to manufacturers. Thankfully, the collective effect of four convergent trends – AI, IIOT, 5G and collaborative robotics – presents companies with many options for addressing the problem, while creating new opportunities for businesses and their workforces in the process.
In this keynote session, Greg Smith, President, Industrial Automation Group at Teradyne, will discuss the market drivers of human scale automation and present a model of the market potential for collaborative robots to automate dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks freeing people from monotonous work to have more time for value-oriented activities. He will also share his vision for robotics, where people work with robots not like robots.
Robotics OEMs and robotic systems providers are increasingly partnering with organizations that offer design, engineering and manufacturing services to support the development and production of their robotic products. And for good reason. Manufacturing services providers play a critical role in the procurement, fabrication and assembly of the robotic solutions, but also have unique insight into the design, engineering and production of robotics. This insight can be applied to many design and engineering elements of the robotic solution. Overall, the services that can be provided range from the short term and tactical, to long term development engagements requiring both deep domain expertise as well as end-to-end solutions expertise. In this session, attendees will learn about the wide variety of service offerings that are available for creating and manufacturing robotics technologies and products, as well as provider selection criteria, business models and service agreement options. Case studies will be used to highlight critical points.
In this session, Vecna Robotics’ Chief Architect, Innovation and Product Development, Siddharth Chhatpar, and CEO, Daniel Theobald, will describe a unique design method that can be summed up by the phrase – “Build to Learn.” This approach encourages engineers to start prototyping early in the design process, even before they have all the necessary information, so they can drive innovation, extract key insights into potential problems, and reduce risk. The process is unconventional and strays from industry norms, but it empowers product designers to take risks, learn from them right away, and to iterate to solve problems in real-time. In this session, Chhatpar will provide an overview of his “Build to Learn” process, offer steps to change traditional design protocol, and share ways organizations can adapt this idea into practice at their business.
‘Motion’ in the physical world, whether in the form of changing place, position or posture, is perhaps the greatest differentiator between robotic systems and all other classes of engineered products. It is motion is that makes robotics systems ‘robotic’, and it is advances in motion control technologies that have spurred robotics innovation, with the result that there has been a dramatic increase in the use of robotics technologies and products around the globe. In this panel session, attendees will learn how support for robotic motion control has improved with the introduction of new products and technologies, and how they allow for new capabilities, new applications, and entry into new markets. Case studies and product examples will be used to highlight salient points. Topics include:
• Motion and Movement
• Motion Control Products and Technologies
• Robotic Motion Control Trends
• Applications and Vertical Markets
• Motion Control and Robotics Opportunities
You wouldn’t ask an architect to build anything without designing it in AutoCAD first, so why are you installing AMRs without simulating the deployment first in software? IN this session, OTTO Motors’ CEO Matthew Rendall will discuss how simulation is used to save cost, validate feasibility, mitigate risk, and evaluate ROI — all before the robots are on site at a facility. He will provide real-world examples from both greenfield and brownfield deployments demonstrating how simulation is used to identify inefficiencies early, reduce deployment time, and model what success looks like. Session attendees will learn:
• How will AMRs behave in a facility?
• What is the optimal number of AMRs?
• What are the impacts of different design options?
• Where are the potential workflow bottlenecks?
The use of additive manufacturing (AM) in the robotics and industrial automation sector is becoming more prevalent every day. AM can be used to complement and address many of the shortcomings of traditional manufacturing methods like machining and injection molding. End-of-arm tooling (EOAT), for example, is just one of the many critical applications that can benefit greatly from AM through lightweighting, part consolidation, customization, cost reduction, and time to market. In this informative session, attendees will learn:
• The different types of additive manufacturing (AM)
• The advantages of AM over traditional manufacturing methods
• Considerations when designing parts for AM
• Top AM applications for industrial automation & robotics
• 10 real-world use cases
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