Robotics Blog

Cost pres­sures, short­age of skilled work­ers, tense sup­ply chains, aspired reshoring, or unat­trac­tive work tasks – there are plenty of rea­sons and dri­vers for automat­ing processes.
But how do you iden­tify the man­u­fac­tur­ing processes and work tasks with the great­est automa­tion poten­tial in your pro­duc­tion? What role does robot-based automa­tion play and how are you able to avoid pitfalls?
Our new whitepa­per pro­vides help­ful tips and shows you the path to automa­tion as a step-by-step guide.

Auto­mat­ica is the world’s lead­ing trade fair for Smart Automa­tion and Robotics and will be the industry’s meet­ing point from June 27 to 30.
Con­tact us to receive a free ticket to visit the exhi­bi­tion and ArtiMinds in Hall B4, Booth 204.
We are look­ing for­ward to your visit and our per­sonal exchange!

Until a robotic sys­tem is fully up and run­ning in con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion, many steps have to be per­formed dur­ing plan­ning, setup, com­mis­sion­ing and ramp-up. Those aspects are usu­ally taken into account suf­fi­ciently, how­ever, the effort of main­te­nance dur­ing run­time is most often under­es­ti­mated. Com­po­nent and machine tol­er­ances, mechan­i­cal wear, human error, gen­eral envi­ron­men­tal influ­ences, and the setup of new vari­ants can cre­ate a sig­nif­i­cant amount of work.
How you can reduce the effort dur­ing main­te­nance with ArtiMinds RPS and LAR soft­ware and at the same time increase the effi­ciency of the main­te­nance processes, we explain in our cur­rent Robotics Tip article.

Who are the peo­ple who are shap­ing robotics at ArtiMinds every day? Our new for­mat “3 Ques­tions to…” reveals more and intro­duces the faces and the team.
Let’s start with our Prod­uct Man­ager Jonas Lange­heine, who is respon­si­ble for a cus­tomer- and appli­ca­tion-cen­tric prod­uct development.
He tells us what his day-to-day work is like, what he par­tic­u­larly enjoys about his job and how he likes to spend his free time.

At all about automa­tion you will expe­ri­ence sys­tems, com­po­nents, soft­ware and engi­neer­ing for indus­trial automa­tion and indus­trial communication.
Get your free ticket and visit us at our booth B2-305

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.20 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes, among oth­ers, extended inte­gra­tions and func­tion­al­i­ties for UR, KUKA and FANUC as well as new builders and tem­plates to read and write the coor­di­nates of a point.

You can find the entire change log with all changes and bug fixes in the ArtiMinds RPS directory.

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

Accord­ing to your indi­vid­ual require­ments, our expe­ri­enced Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing team can sup­port you with con­sult­ing ser­vices in all phases of your project.
From devel­op­ing the automa­tion idea, to con­cept devel­op­ment, to pro­to­typ­i­cal imple­men­ta­tion of the robot appli­ca­tion as a fea­si­bil­ity study – our Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing team has many years of expe­ri­ence in robot-based automa­tion and sen­sor-adap­tive robotics.
Until the final trans­fer of the results to the shop floor, e.g. together with your machine builder or sys­tem inte­gra­tor, we are the right part­ner for your robot-based automa­tion project!

In coop­er­a­tion with ArtiMinds the com­pany SHL suc­cess­fully auto­mated a highly chal­leng­ing weld fin­ish­ing robot appli­ca­tion. The goal was to develop a flex­i­ble solu­tion with­out any pneu­matic spin­dles, since those are hard to mon­i­tor and cum­ber­some to maintain.
The work pieces, which vary in size and dimen­sions, con­sist of sev­eral pipes welded together. The task was to remove the excess mate­r­ial at the weld seam on the inside of the work pieces.

Pro­gram­ming such force-sen­si­tive tasks typ­i­cally requires a high level of robotics and pro­gram­ming exper­tise. How­ever, with the soft­ware solu­tions and pro­gram­ming sup­port from ArtiMinds, SHL set up, com­mis­sioned, and iden­ti­fied the opti­mal process para­me­ters in just a few days.
Learn more about the project and coop­er­a­tion in the cor­re­spond­ing appli­ca­tion video.

ArtiMinds LAR is the cen­tral solu­tion for ana­lyz­ing robot process data for holis­tic mon­i­tor­ing and opti­miza­tion of automa­tion processes.
The tool ana­lyzes live sen­sor data of the robot, such as occur­ring forces, tool paths and veloc­i­ties and auto­mat­i­cally com­bines them with process infor­ma­tion such as part ser­ial num­bers, process steps and sequence information.
Watch our lat­est video to learn how ArtiMinds LAR can sup­port you in opti­miz­ing pro­duc­tion processes and how the data is help­ful for var­i­ous stake­hold­ers in your organization.

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.19 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes, among other things, the inte­gra­tion of the GRIPLINK mod­ule from Weiss Robotics for UR, extended func­tions for the Grip­per Tem­plate and the Loop Tem­plate as well as the new “Mul­ti­Code” Builder, which can be used to insert script code in all avail­able robot script languages.

You can find the entire change log with all changes and bug fixes in the ArtiMinds RPS directory.

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.18 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes enhance­ments and addi­tional sup­ported robot mod­els for Fanuc and enhance­ments for Uni­ver­sal Robots. Fur­ther­more new builders (com­ment, true, false) and a new func­tion­al­ity for easy sav­ing of hier­ar­chies as user-defined tem­plates are available.

You can find the entire change log with all changes and bug fixes in the ArtiMinds RPS directory.

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.