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May 30, 2023

What Makes No-Code and Low-Code Tools So Popular?

“To unlock the power of soft­ware devel­op­ment with­out cod­ing” – That´s what no-code and low-code tools promise to do. Look­ing at robotics automa­tion, our lat­est blog post high­lights why these tools are rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the indus­try, empow­er­ing cit­i­zen devel­op­ers, boost­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, and accel­er­at­ing innovation.

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May 5, 2023

3 Ques­tions to… Flo­rian Aumann

Who are the peo­ple who are shap­ing robotics at ArtiMinds every day? The for­mat “3 Ques­tions to…” reveals more and intro­duces the faces and the team.

Today, Flo­rian Aumann is answer­ing our ques­tions. Of course, how could it be oth­er­wise: as a soft­ware devel­oper, he enjoys search­ing for and find­ing solu­tions to com­plex, tech­ni­cal prob­lems the most. And he has been doing this for six years now!
How does Flo­rian describe him­self in three words? As a cheer­ful nature, nerd and idealist.

1. What does a typ­i­cal work week look like for you?
Most of the time I deal with RPS devel­op­ment. This can be both small and larger projects for cus­tomer-spe­cific but also inter­nal requests. Of course, reg­u­lar meet­ings with cus­tomers or col­leagues are a must. Often you can also find me in the Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing depart­ment, where I help deal­ing with ques­tions and projects. On Fri­days, a suc­cess­ful week is rounded off with a tra­di­tional Thai meal together with the team!

2. What do you do to bal­ance your pro­fes­sional life?
My week­ends with my girl­friend in Coburg in Bavaria are par­tic­u­larly relax­ing. I also enjoy hik­ing and cooking.

3. What is your per­sonal motto?
We´ll get it right!

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April 26, 2023

New Whitepa­per: Achiev­ing Automa­tion – but how?

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.

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April 24, 2023

Don´t miss: ArtiMinds at auto­mat­ica 2023

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!

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March 27, 2023

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.21

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.21 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes, among oth­ers, sev­eral enhance­ments and new fea­tures like the new tool “Mean­der” to cre­ate edges on a CAD sur­face, the new tem­plate “Point Inverse” for cal­cu­lat­ing the inverse pose of a point as well as a new wiz­ard that guides through the cal­i­bra­tion process for 3D mod­els and/or points (3-Point Cal­i­bra­tion Wizard).

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.

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Link to: Main­te­nance 2.0 – Teach­point optimization
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March 24, 2023

New Video Tutorial

ArtiMinds RPS gen­er­ated robot pro­grams are pre­pared to be eas­ily main­tained by ser­vice per­son­nel. Even after local changes have been made, ArtiMinds offers options to syn­chro­nize the pro­gram on the robot with the dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion in ArtiMinds RPS.
In this video, see how easy it is to teach way­points or bases of robot pro­grams gen­er­ated by ArtiMinds. Later, the local changes are imported into the soft­ware again and the sim­u­la­tion is updated automatically.

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Link to: Main­te­nance 2.0 – Teach­point optimization
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March 16, 2023

Robotics Tip: Main­te­nance 2.0 – Teach­point optimization

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.

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Link to: 3 Ques­tions to Jonas Langeheine
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March 3, 2023

3 Ques­tions to… Jonas Langeheine

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.

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Feb­ru­ary 2, 2023

Don´t miss: ArtiMinds at all about automa­tion trade show in Friedrichshafen

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

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Feb­ru­ary 1, 2023

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.20

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.

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Jan­u­ary 17, 2023

NEW: Robotics Glossary

What does online or offline pro­gram­ming mean, or what is an Euler angle or force-torque sen­sor, and what is meant by con­tin­u­ous path control?

We have col­lected these and numer­ous other tech­ni­cal terms from the fields of robotics, indus­try and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence as well as ArtiMinds spe­cific terms and explained them in our robotics glossary.

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Jan­u­ary 10, 2023

Robotics project con­sult­ing and engi­neer­ing ser­vices from ArtiMinds

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!

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Decem­ber 16, 2022

Best Prac­tice: Robotic grind­ing appli­ca­tion for pro­cess­ing weld seams

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.

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Link to: ArTIA
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Decem­ber 7, 2022

Explainer Video: ArtiMinds LAR

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.

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Link to: ArTIA
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Novem­ber 28, 2022

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.19

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.

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Link to: ArTIA
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Octo­ber 21, 2022

Cable assem­bly and handling

Auto­mated han­dling, manip­u­la­tion, and assem­bly of flex­i­ble work­pieces such as cables, tubes, or fabrics/fabric cover pose sev­eral chal­lenges in pro­duc­tion. Tra­di­tional robot processes often lack the dex­ter­ity to han­dle these sen­si­tive mate­ri­als. Local­iza­tion of the posi­tion and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the shape of parts are a major chal­lenge in clas­sic robot pro­gram­ming. The lia­bil­ity and form insta­bil­ity of the mate­r­ial results in con­stantly chang­ing dynamic of the part tol­er­ances, shape, and local­iza­tion through­out the entire assem­bly process.
But robot-based cable assem­bly can now be pro­grammed and imple­mented with ArtiMinds RPS.

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Link to: ArTIA
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Octo­ber 10, 2022

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.18

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.

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Baden-Würt­tem­berg Inter­na­tional GmbH

Sep­tem­ber 1, 2022

Suc­cess­ful AI research in Baden-Württemberg

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As a research-strong and inno­v­a­tive state, AI is a key tech­nol­ogy for Baden-Würt­tem­berg. Three exam­ples from research and applied research, show­cased in a short movie by Baden-Würt­tem­berg Inter­na­tional, high­light the state’s poten­tial, suc­cess and diver­sity of ideas in the field of AI.

ArtiMinds is pre­sented as one of the three exam­ples. „In Baden-Würt­tem­berg there’s this spirit of mak­ing things actu­ally work and not shiny“, Dr.-Ing. Darko Katic, Senior Team­leader AI at ArtiMinds Robotics, sums up the LÄND’s great poten­tial in AI.

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August 19, 2022

These appli­ca­tions can be real­ized using ArtiMinds

To know how: ArtiMinds is not just tem­plate-based pro­gram­ming soft­ware for indus­trial robots. With ArtiMinds, sen­sor-adap­tive processes in par­tic­u­lar can be pro­grammed much more eas­ily and indus­tri­al­ized more quickly.
Why? Because the more than 60 func­tion tem­plates con­tain intel­li­gent algo­rithms that ensure that the robot exe­cutes, for exam­ple, a plug­ging process as quickly and pre­cisely as pos­si­ble and even opti­mizes itself over sev­eral cycles.

Our new video shows which appli­ca­tions can be real­ized using ArtiMinds RPS and LAR:

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Link to: ArTIA
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August 8, 2022

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.17

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.17 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes enhance­ments and addi­tional sup­ported robot mod­els for  KUKA and Fanuc. Fur­ther­more grip­per sta­tus and vision results in are added in the stream­ing infor­ma­tion send to ArtiMinds LAR.

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

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

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Link to: ArTIA
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July 14, 2022

ArTIA: the new inter­face between ArtiMinds and TIA Portal

With ArTIA, Siemens and ArtiMinds have co-devel­oped a pro­to­type inter­face to con­nect ArtiMinds RPS and SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal).
Dur­ing engi­neer­ing, ArTIA decreases inter­face efforts between robot con­trollers and SIMATIC con­trollers down to zero. ArTIA helps by auto­mat­i­cally cre­at­ing the robot hard­ware con­fig­u­ra­tion in the cor­re­spond­ing TIA Por­tal project as well as the func­tion blocks rep­re­sent­ing the sub-pro­grams com­piled with ArtiMinds RPS. Fur­ther­more, it guar­an­tees con­sis­tent data exchange between PLC and robot con­troller. As in con­ven­tional automa­tion projects, TIA Por­tal can then be used to final­ize the engi­neer­ing of the robots and their inter­ac­tion with other cell/line devices.

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Link to: Auto­mat­ica 2022 – Review
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July 5, 2022

Auto­mat­ica 2022 – Review

Four excit­ing and event­ful trade fair days at auto­mat­ica in Munich are behind ArtiMinds. We would like to thank all vis­i­tors for the great inter­est and the inten­sive per­sonal exchange.

What were the high­lights and which sen­sor-adap­tive appli­ca­tions could be seen at our booth in hall B4? In our trade show review, we have com­piled the most impor­tant infor­ma­tion as well as a short trade show film.

Impres­sions & Highlights
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June 27, 2022

New ArtiMinds Brochure

Cor­re­lat­ing with auto­mat­ica, we have given our prod­uct brochure a redesign in terms of con­tent and appear­ance. As a holis­tic robotics part­ner, ArtiMinds not only sup­ports you with intel­li­gent soft­ware solu­tions, but also offers cus­tomized project sup­port, engi­neer­ing and training.
We have com­piled all impor­tant infor­ma­tion in the new brochure.

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May 6, 2022

Free Robotics Checklist

Are you plan­ning a robotics project? To ensure effi­cient plan­ning and inte­gra­tion, it is impor­tant to think about the con­cept and require­ments of the appli­ca­tion, your goals, the tech­ni­cal pre­req­ui­sites and the require­ments for human-robot col­lab­o­ra­tion in advance.
Use our inter­ac­tive check­list and the sup­ple­men­tary tips to make sure you don’t for­get any impor­tant points and to find the right hard­ware com­po­nents and soft­ware tools for your application.

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April 12, 2022

Easy Robot Pro­gram Trans­fer With­out Loss of Process Parameters

A robot pro­gram­ming devel­oped with ArtiMinds RPS can be eas­ily trans­ferred to robots of other manufacturers.
As the soft­ware uses a generic tem­plate pro­gram to cre­ate native robot code, force-con­trolled assem­bly processes etc. can be trans­ferred eas­ily while main­tain­ing the para­me­ters of the process. Reteach­ing due to kine­matic changes is fast and easy.

So, for exam­ple, a fea­si­bil­ity study can also be real­ized with a Cobot. Later, an indus­trial robot can be used for the robotic cell.

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April 1, 2022

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.15

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.14 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes enhance­ments and addi­tional sup­ported hard­ware for ABB, KUKA and Fanuc as well as new func­tions of the Mea­sure Dis­tance Dialog.

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

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

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March 11, 2022

Bin Pick­ing and Force-Con­trolled Assembly

Unsorted com­po­nents can be robustly detected with the Keyence Bin Pick­ing Sys­tem RB-800, while the search algo­rithms of ArtiMinds RPS take over the down­stream force-con­trolled assem­bly of the com­po­nents – an ideal combination.

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Link to: Auto­mat­ica 2023
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Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022

Don´t miss: ArtiMinds at auto­mat­ica 2022

Auto­mat­ica is the world’s lead­ing trade fair for Smart Automa­tion and Robotics and will be the industry’s meet­ing point from June 21 to 24.
Con­tact us to receive a free ticket to visit the exhi­bi­tion and ArtiMinds  in the Future Robotics Hall, Hall B4, Booth 302A.
We are look­ing for­ward to your visit and our per­sonal exchange!

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Feb­ru­ary 16, 2022

Robotics Best Prac­tice: How Maus auto­mated the grind­ing process of alu­minum mold shells

The grind­ing of molded shells is a phys­i­cally demand­ing job, but due to the com­plex geome­tries the task can­not actu­ally be auto­mated with robots. With the sup­port of ArtiMinds, how­ever, Maus GmbH has now found a solu­tion that allows the robot to grind out the shells in a force-con­trolled and pre­cise manner.
Mel­chior Maus, mas­ter degree in tech­ni­cal model mak­ing, reports: “Up to now, we had no expe­ri­ence with robots. But with their soft­ware solu­tion and exper­tise ArtiMinds opened the door into the field of robotics for us. Our vision is that every work­sta­tion in mold con­struc­tion will have a robot to assist the worker in grind­ing out the molded shells.”

In the lat­est Suc­cess Story video, Mel­chior Maus explains the details of the appli­ca­tion and tells what ben­e­fits he has had by using ArtiMinds RPS and coop­er­at­ing with ArtiMinds.

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Feb­ru­ary 11, 2022

Why oper­a­tional effects are very time con­sum­ing for robot programmers

Dur­ing the life­cy­cle of a robotic cell, a sys­tem is exposed to numer­ous oper­a­tional influences.
These can be shocks and vibra­tions trig­gered, for exam­ple, by fork­lifts or other machines, the wear of tools, spare parts that react dif­fer­ently than the pre­vi­ous com­po­nents, changes in work piece batches or space avail­able in the hall. Chang­ing light­ing and tem­per­a­ture con­di­tions or the dif­fer­ence between a cold-started and a warmed-up robot can also have an effect.

What does this mean in con­crete terms? Our lat­est blog reveals the facts!

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Feb­ru­ary 3, 2022

Vote and win: ArtiMinds nom­i­nated as “Prod­uct of the Year”

The edi­tors of the Ger­man trade jour­nal “Com­puter & Automa­tion” selected 96 prod­ucts in twelve cat­e­gories and nom­i­nated them for the “Prod­uct of the Year 2022”.
ArtiMinds is nom­i­nated in the cat­e­gory “Robotics” with its no-code soft­ware solu­tion ArtiMinds RPS, which can be used to imple­ment sen­sor-adap­tive appli­ca­tions such as the force-con­trolled plug­ging of flex­i­ble cables using pre-pro­grammed templates.

We appre­ci­ate your vote for ArtiMinds! The vot­ing runs until Feb­ru­ary 28.

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Jan­u­ary 12, 2022

Grip­ping, greas­ing, join­ing – force-con­trolled gear assem­bly with ArtiMinds

Primus Präzi­sion­stech­nik man­u­fac­tures and sup­plies cus­tomized motor-gear units, which are devel­oped indi­vid­u­ally. Being inno­v­a­tive is one of the most impor­tant cri­te­ria to stay one step ahead of the com­pe­ti­tion. In order to increase prod­uct qual­ity and process sta­bil­ity, and to reduce costs through bet­ter dos­ing of grease when greas­ing gears and shafts, Primus auto­mated the assem­bly process of a gear unit for the auto­mo­tive sec­tor using robots.
Although the team had no expe­ri­ence in robotics prior to this project, using ArtiMinds RPS robot pro­gram­ming soft­ware and LAR analy­sis soft­ware Primus was able to pro­gram the appli­ca­tion inde­pen­dently and to imple­ment a flex­i­ble robot cell.
Qual­ity was increased as desired and the reject rate was reduced to almost zero.
More about the coop­er­a­tion and appli­ca­tion in the Case Story Video!

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Jan­u­ary 7, 2022

Dig­i­tal Twin for Robot Applications

Since a robot, as the cen­tral ele­ment of a sub-sys­tem, is linked to sen­sors and actu­a­tors and must com­mu­ni­cate with these com­po­nents, it pro­vides a lot of of rel­e­vant process data that can be col­lected via ArtiMinds LAR. This cre­ates a lean solu­tion where a dig­i­tal twin of the robot appli­ca­tion can be cre­ated with­out addi­tional hardware.
ArtiMinds LAR thus acts as a kind of intel­li­gent adapter for the dig­i­tal twin. Using LAR, it is now easy to ensure or even increase prod­uct qual­ity and con­tin­u­ously opti­mize pro­duc­tion processes.
In our lat­est blog post we reveal how ArtiMinds RPS and LAR sup­port you in a struc­tured real time analy­sis of your processes.

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Decem­ber 20, 2021

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.14

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.14 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes enhance­ments and addi­tional sup­ported hard­ware for ABB, KUKA and Fanuc as well as new func­tions of the Mea­sure Dis­tance Dialog.

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

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

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Decem­ber 1, 2021

Fully auto­mated cycle time improvement

To reduce the cycle time it is impor­tant to find the robot´s opti­mal teach point. The analy­sis soft­ware ArtiMinds LAR is able to com­pute improved teach points, e.g. when dif­fer­ent work piece car­ri­ers may cause devi­a­tions in pro­duc­tion. You only need to con­nect the PLC to ArtiMinds LAR and the soft­ware will learn an improved teach point for each work piece carrier.
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Novem­ber 15, 2021

Out now: the ArtiMinds Image Film

Watch our brand new image film that shows what ArtiMinds Robotics makes stand out as a ser­vice and solu­tion provider and how cus­tomers ben­e­fit from the pro­found exper­tise and indi­vid­ual con­sult­ing and support.

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Novem­ber 2, 2021

White Paper: This is how Automa­tion Works

To ensure that robotics projects do not become time- and cost-con­sum­ing, it is impor­tant to con­sider pos­si­ble obsta­cles and hur­dles already in the plan­ning phase. With this white paper, we want to pro­vide you with guid­ance for your automa­tion plans. We will show you exam­ples of when the use of a robot or cobot is worth­while and how you and your com­pany can profit from it.

And to help you to avoid typ­i­cal pit­falls when using robots, we high­light the top 5 under­es­ti­mated chal­lenges and stum­bling blocks when get­ting started with robotics and pro­vide you with help­ful tips in the form of short checklists.

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Octo­ber 28, 2021

Tips and Tricks for ArtiMinds RPS – Quick Help Guide

ArtiMinds RPS sup­ports you with a lot of help func­tions like the online help and the con­text-sen­si­tive help and wiz­ards that guide you through the para­me­ter­i­za­tion process. Did you know, that the online help pro­vides a detailed descrip­tion for every tem­plate and that you can find tuto­ri­als and exam­ple projects to quickly start with the pro­gram­ming in ArtiMinds RPS?
Watch this quick help guide video to learn more!

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Octo­ber 27, 2021

Leather goods pro­duc­tion using no-code robotics

See how the Ital­ian machine builder Galli ven­tured into robotics and devel­oped a robot-based flex­i­ble automa­tion solu­tion for pro­cess­ing leather pieces using ArtiMinds Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite software.
In this arti­cle R&D Man­ager Roberto Ver­duci reveals how and why Galli was able to real­ize the project, from design to pro­gram­ming to imple­men­ta­tion, with­out an exter­nal integrator.

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ArtiMinds Robotics robotic deburring cell at Greene Tweed

Sep­tem­ber 23, 2021

New case story video: Flex­i­ble robotic debur­ring cell pro­grammed with ArtiMinds RPS

By imple­ment­ing a flex­i­ble robotic debur­ring cell and automat­ing the pre­vi­ously man­ual debur­ring process, Greene Tweed was not only able to increase the process qual­ity, but also to reduce the over­all pro­cess­ing time by over 50%.
In our lat­est suc­cess story and the cor­re­spond­ing case story video, Andrew Laich reveals how the US com­pany achieved this thanks to the robot soft­ware ArtiMinds RPS and the role played by the inten­sive col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ArtiMinds Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing Team.

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ArtiMinds Robotics RPS Release 1.13

Sep­tem­ber 1, 2021

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.13

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.13 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The update includes exten­sive new fea­tures and revi­sions of ArtiMinds RPS Point Tool as well as the inte­gra­tion of new KUKA and ABB robot models.
To present all new fea­tures and updates of the Point Tool in detail, we have cre­ated a short video tuto­r­ial. >>WATCH VIDEO

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

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

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Link to: Debur­ring Expo 2021
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August 23, 2021

Visit ArtiMinds at Debur­ring Expo

Debur­ring Expo, the lead­ing trade fair for debur­ring tech­nolo­gies and pre­ci­sion sur­faces, will take place from Octo­ber 12 to 14 in Karl­sruhe. At our joint booth with SHL Automa­tisierung­stech­nik in hall 1, stand 722, we will present the lat­est tech­nolo­gies and processes for robot-based automa­tion of debur­ring and sur­face fin­ish­ing processes.

Get your free ticket – we are look­ing for­ward to your visit!

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August 9, 2021

High-pre­ci­sion assem­bly of elec­tronic devices with light­weight robots

Through-hole devices play an impor­tant role in power elec­tron­ics pro­duc­tion. Due to a high num­ber of vari­ants in this field, an auto­mated place­ment by spe­cial machines is often not eco­nom­i­cally fea­si­ble. Could a par­tial automa­tion with light­weight robots be a solution?
The lack of accu­racy of light­weight robots com­pared to indus­trial robots com­bined with the high pre­ci­sion require­ments seem to make this an impos­si­ble option. To over­come this gap, Siemens AG and FAU Erlan­gen-Nurem­berg have devel­oped sen­sor-based strate­gies for high-pre­ci­sion assem­bly of elec­tronic com­po­nents with light­weight robots and imple­mented the pro­gram­ming of the appli­ca­tion using the mod­u­lar, non-pro­pri­etary Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite from ArtiMinds.

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ArtiMinds Learning & Analytics for Robots - Comensation of tolerances and process optimization

August 5, 2021

Opti­miza­tion of robot appli­ca­tions with ArtiMinds LAR

In the field of robotics, the require­ments for posi­tion­ing accu­racy are highly demand­ing. Tol­er­ances of com­po­nents or work­pieces increase the cycle time of robotic appli­ca­tions and make them error-prone. With the soft­ware ArtiMinds Learn­ing & Ana­lyt­ics for Robots (LAR), processes with tol­er­ances can be ana­lyzed specif­i­cally and the robot pro­gram can be opti­mized based on the acquired sen­sor data. This sig­nif­i­cantly increases process reliability.

Our new video shows how this looks in practice.

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July 9, 2021

Best Prac­tice: State-of-the-art leather goods pro­duc­tion using no-code robotics

To remain com­pet­i­tive, Ital­ian machine builder Galli ven­tured into robotics and devel­oped a robot-based flex­i­ble automa­tion solu­tion for pro­cess­ing leather pieces using ArtiMinds Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite software.
In our lat­est suc­cess story, Roberto Ver­duci reveals how and why Galli was able to real­ize the project, from design to pro­gram­ming to imple­men­ta­tion, with­out an exter­nal integrator.

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June 21, 2021

Rethink robotics: Seam­less inter­lock of online and offline programming

Com­plex robot appli­ca­tions gen­er­ally pass through three phases in their life cycle: Plan­ning, pro­gram­ming and main­te­nance. It is com­mon for prob­lems to occur at the inter­faces between the indi­vid­ual phases.
On the one hand because dif­fer­ent peo­ple are respon­si­ble dur­ing the respec­tive phase, on the other hand because dif­fer­ent tools are used. A pro­gram­ming solu­tion that cov­ers all three phases and bridges the gap between the dif­fer­ent areas of activ­ity brings numer­ous advan­tages. Espe­cially when users can eas­ily switch between online and offline programming.

Our lat­est blog explains why.

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June 18, 2021

Free on-demand webi­nar “How to solve sen­sor-based robot appli­ca­tions”

Would you like to know how you can deploy demand­ing robot appli­ca­tions robustly, e.g. using hybrid pro­gram­ming? Dur­ing our last webi­nar series, we recorded a ses­sion show­ing how to solve sen­sor-based appli­ca­tions.  The video can be accessed on-demand for free at any time.

In a live demo on a real robot you will learn about the advan­tages of online and offline pro­gram­ming merg­ing seam­lessly and why you should rely on hybrid pro­gram­ming when it comes to sen­sor-based robot appli­ca­tions. In addi­tion, we will show you how sen­sor tech­nol­ogy can be used intel­li­gently in this context.

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ArtiMinds Robotics- FAQ

June 2, 2021

FAQ: Sub­se­quent pro­gram changes with­out using ArtiMinds 

“Is it pos­si­ble to make sub­se­quent changes to the robot pro­gram (in the pro­gram­ming lan­guage of the robot man­u­fac­turer) with­out ArtiMinds RPS?”

This ques­tion is quite jus­ti­fied, because it is about flex­i­bil­ity and inde­pen­dence on the user side. But don’t worry: the answer is quite clearly YES.
ArtiMinds RPS gen­er­ates native pro­gram code that runs on the stan­dard con­troller of the robot man­u­fac­turer. This means that the pro­gram runs autonomously on the con­troller even with­out a con­nec­tion to ArtiMinds RPS and can be changed at any time in the native pro­gram­ming lan­guage. ArtiMinds also offers the option of inte­grat­ing native pro­gram code as a library or encap­su­lated in code tem­plates into the RPS program.
Find fur­ther ques­tions and answers in the ArtiMinds FAQ section.

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ArtiMinds Robotics - Software release 1.12

May 28, 2021

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.12

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.12 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. In this update, there are major changes for KUKA con­cern­ing the gen­er­ated robot code and the com­mu­ni­ca­tion between robot con­troller and RPS as well as the sup­port of new robot mod­els and inte­gra­tion of KUKA ForT­Tran force/torque sen­sor and Keyence smart cameras.
In addi­tion, a new dia­log now allows faster edit­ing of tem­plate name, com­ment and color.

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

The release is avail­able via down­load or online update.

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Denso teachen nah_web

May 26, 2021

Robot imple­men­ta­tion: boot up with­out addi­tional effort

If we con­sider the eco­nomic ben­e­fits of robotic appli­ca­tions, it is impor­tant not to focus entirely on the devel­op­ment and ongo­ing oper­a­tion of the sys­tem. Because the smoothest pos­si­ble startup of the sys­tem also makes a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion. Smart engi­neer­ing tools such as ArtiMinds RPS and ArtiMinds LAR that offer con­sis­tency from engi­neer­ing to main­te­nance can ensure that com­mis­sion­ing does not turn into a costly process.

Today´s blog explores how you can man­age a boot up with­out addi­tional effort.

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May 20, 2021

Book your ArtiMinds (online) User Training

ArtiMinds RPS and LAR opti­mally sup­port you in the devel­op­ment and inte­gra­tion of your robot-based automa­tion solu­tions. The func­tions of the soft­ware solu­tions are just as diverse as the exist­ing appli­ca­tion areas.

In the two-day user train­ing course at our ArtiMinds Acad­emy, we con­vey all the impor­tant fea­tures in a com­pact and prac­ti­cal man­ner and show you how you can flex­i­bly auto­mate your processes. And best of all: the user train­ing is included in all stan­dard licenses.

If you are not able to visit us in Karl­sruhe, you can book an online train­ing.

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ArtiMinds Robotics at Icra Conference

May 12, 2021

ArtiMinds Robotics at ICRA Con­fer­ence in China

The 2021 Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Robotics and Automa­tion (ICRA) is the IEEE Robotics and Automa­tion Society’s biggest con­fer­ence and one of the lead­ing inter­na­tional forums for robotics researchers to present their work. It will be held 30 May- 5 June 2021 and takes place in China.
As part of the ses­sion “Learn­ing-Based Manip­u­la­tion IX”, ArtiMinds will hold a pre­sen­ta­tion about “Robot Pro­gram Para­me­ter Infer­ence Via Dif­fer­en­tiable Shadow Pro­gram Inversion”.

ICRA pro­gram at a glance
ArtiMinds Robotics - Profinet Nodes 2020

May 7, 2021

Over 100 mil­lion installed PROFIBUS and PROFINET devices

Despite chal­lenges brought about by the pan­demic, the total num­ber of PROFIBUS and PROFINET devices so far installed at plants has exceeded 100 mil­lion. On a yearly basis, PROFINET has beaten all pre­vi­ous records with a total of 7.3 mil­lion prod­ucts placed on the mar­ket, reach­ing a com­bined total of 40 mil­lion.
In man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­ogy, mean­while, around four times as many devices have been equipped with a PROFINET inter­face than a PROFIBUS interface.

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April 28, 2021

Best Prac­tice: Flex­i­ble robotic debur­ring cell pro­grammed with ArtiMinds RPS

By imple­ment­ing a flex­i­ble robotic debur­ring cell and automat­ing the pre­vi­ously man­ual debur­ring process, Greene Tweed was not only able to increase the process qual­ity, but also to reduce the over­all pro­cess­ing time by over 50%.
In our lat­est suc­cess story, Andrew Laich reveals how the US com­pany achieved this thanks to the robot soft­ware ArtiMinds RPS and the role played by the inten­sive col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ArtiMinds Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing Team.

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ArtiMinds Robotics - The solution for electronics assembly robot applications

April 9, 2021

Elec­tron­ics assem­bly: Robustly auto­mate pre­cise han­dling of sen­si­tive components

Do you want to auto­mate the assem­bly of con­nec­tors, cables, printed cir­cuit boards or the inser­tion of THT com­po­nents with robots? With ArtiMinds RPS, you can eas­ily gen­er­ate sen­sor-based robust robot pro­grams and teach your robot how to pre­cisely han­dle sen­si­tive components.

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ArtiMinds Robotics – Industrieroboter flexibel und einfach mit RPS & LAR programmieren

April 8, 2021

New ArtiMinds down­load and press section

Do you already know the new down­load and press area of ArtiMinds? In addi­tion to the free UR Cap plu­gin ArtiMinds Essen­tials and help­ful infor­ma­tion mate­r­ial, you will also find cur­rent pub­li­ca­tions and reports about ArtiMinds in the trade press as well as an overview of our cur­rent TechTips. So it’s worth tak­ing a look.

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Create a List Loop template

April 1, 2021

TechTip: Pro­gram­ming via Lists and CSV Data

Do you want to con­nect your robot pro­gram to exter­nal data sources, for exam­ple, to move the robot to dif­fer­ent posi­tions spec­i­fied from an exter­nal program?
Our lat­est TechTip shows how to han­dle and cre­ate lists in ArtiMinds RPS and pro­gram loop exe­cu­tions in the con­text of lists.

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ArtiMinds RPS Release Version 1.11

March 29, 2021

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.11

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.11 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights such as the sup­port of KUKA KR50 R2500, added doc­u­men­ta­tion for ‘Move to Point’ tem­plate and the added func­tion to copy the curve force set­tings from another curve (CAD2Path+Force).

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

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March 18, 2021

CEO Sven Schmidt-Rohr guest of Robot Thought Leaders

How are tele­op­er­a­tions chang­ing how we do busi­ness? What plans has your com­pany imple­mented to use this technology?

These and more ques­tions ArtiMinds` CEO Sven Schmidt-Rohr was asked when talk­ing to Robot Though Lead­ers, a US pod­cast inter­view­ing the indi­vid­u­als and com­pa­nies that are dri­ving change in the indus­trial robot automa­tion world. In more than one hour they dis­cussed top­ics like tele­op­er­a­tions, AI & Deep Learn­ing, the future of Automa­tion but also talked about how ArtiMinds was founded and Sven´s exten­sive robotics back­ground and much more.
You can watch and hear the com­plete pod­cast ses­sion on YouTube.

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March 10, 2021

ArtiMinds has been selected for the 2021 Ger­man AI Startup Landscape

Once again ArtiMinds has been included in this year´s Ger­man AI Startup land­scape as on of the top star­tups in the man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try area.  Com­pa­nies like NVIDIA and google as well as nine lead­ing Ven­ture Cap­i­tal com­pa­nies screen more than 1000 star­tups every year to find the best AI star­tups in Ger­many. The land­scape is then pub­lished in Handelsblatt.

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March 3, 2021

Best Prac­tice: Rib­bon cable assem­bly – pro­grammed with ArtiMinds RPS

Rib­bon cables are increas­ingly used in elec­tri­cal devices. Since the grip­ping and inser­tion of non-rigid parts requires a lot of dex­ter­ity, this process is usu­ally car­ried out man­u­ally. In order to auto­mate the plug­ging of rib­bon cables using robots, ArtiMinds has devel­oped a vac­uum grip­per con­cept which allows to grasp the rib­bon cable from a defined posi­tion. The “spike search” algo­rithm helps to com­pen­sate tol­er­ances. The plug of the cable is then guided into the socket using force-control.

Our new video shows how this looks in practice.

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ArtiMinds Robotics - Easy Integration of ArtiMinds RPS in existing robotics projects

Feb­ru­ary 25, 2021

FAQ: Is it pos­si­ble to inte­grate ArtiMinds RPS in (already exist­ing) robotics projects?

When com­pa­nies think about using ArtiMinds RPS they often, of course, do have already exist­ing robotics projects or robot appli­ca­tions. There­fore, we are often asked:

“Do we have to adapt exist­ing robotics appli­ca­tions to use ArtiMinds RPS or how can I inte­grate ArtiMinds into (ongo­ing) robotics projects?”

Since you do not nec­es­sar­ily have to cre­ate the com­plete robot pro­gram with ArtiMinds RPS, but can also gen­er­ate only spe­cial sub-processes, while other parts are pro­grammed “clas­si­cally”, the ArtiMinds soft­ware solu­tions can be inte­grated into exist­ing processes and projects with­out any prob­lems. There­fore, no changes to your exist­ing robot appli­ca­tions are necessary.
On the con­trary: ArtiMinds enables you to inte­grate robots into your pro­duc­tion processes even more flex­i­bly and independently.

If you would like to carry out a fea­si­bil­ity study or if you need solu­tion-ori­ented project sup­port, our Automa­tion Engi­neer­ing Team with its many years of expe­ri­ence in robotics projects is always avail­able to advise you.

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ArtiMinds Robotics - Easy PLC communication via ArtiMinds RPS

Feb­ru­ary 22, 2021

Case Story Mann+Hummel: 2d bin pick­ing – vision sys­tem inte­gra­tion made easy

At Mann+Hummel’s plant in Speyer, Ger­many, the load­ing of a screen print­ing machine with air/oil sep­a­ra­tors was to be auto­mated. Posi­tion detec­tion was to be han­dled by an image-pro­cess­ing vision sen­sor from Sen­soPart con­nected to the robot.

Thanks to ArtiMinds RPS, not only the pro­gram­ming effort but also the setup effort for the vision sys­tem was min­i­mized. Thanks to the inter­nal RPS inter­face, data can be trans­ferred to the robot in a sim­ple and stan­dard­ized way.

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ArtiMinds Robotics - Easy PLC communication via ArtiMinds RPS

Feb­ru­ary 12, 2021

FAQ: Is it pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate with the PLC via ArtiMinds RPS?

“We already have a PLC stan­dard. Is it pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate with the PLC via ArtiMinds RPS?”

We are asked this ques­tion very often. And the answer is quite clearly YES.
A robot pro­gram cre­ated with ArtiMinds RPS can com­mu­ni­cate with a PLC via var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols (Eth­er­net, Ether­cat, Mod­bus, Profinet IO). This hap­pens with our dig­i­tal IO mod­ules, with which e.g. BOOL or INT sig­nals can be sent and received. This means that com­plex pro­to­cols such as a hand­shake for order pro­cess­ing can be pro­grammed or data such as tray posi­tions can be exchanged.
If the same pro­to­col sec­tions are used sev­eral times in the RPS pro­gram, it is not nec­es­sary to reassem­ble them each time. You can save and reuse them as a cus­tom template.
If you already have a robot code for PLC com­mu­ni­ca­tion, it can also be eas­ily inserted into the RPS. In addi­tion, it is pos­si­ble to visu­al­ize fic­ti­tious PLC sig­nals and the asso­ci­ated processes in the simulation.

You can solve nearly every con­ceiv­able appli­ca­tion with ArtiMinds. In our appli­ca­tion area and on YouTube you will find sev­eral appli­ca­tion videos to learn more.

Appli­ca­tions imple­mented with ArtiMinds RPS
Offline programming with ArtiMinds RPS

Feb­ru­ary 8, 2021

Con­tin­u­ous online and offline pro­gram­ming with ArtiMinds RPS

How does pro­gram­ming of indus­trial robots with ArtiMinds RPS look like? It needs just three steps:

  • cre­ate the sequence of the pro­gram by drag and drop
  • teach points and para­me­ter­ize templates
  • sim­u­late the appli­ca­tion and exe­cute the auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ated robot code directly on the robot controller

Our new prod­uct video gives a com­pre­hen­sive overview about pro­gram­ming with ArtiMinds RPS and shows addi­tion­ally how, beyond sim­ple han­dling tasks, the soft­ware can be used to even imple­ment sophis­ti­cated appli­ca­tions, regard­less of the hard­ware set up con­sist­ing of the robot man­u­fac­turer and required periph­eral devices.

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Robot controller approach for programming robots

Feb­ru­ary 4, 2021

Pro­gram­ming indus­trial robots: via native lan­guage or exter­nal controller?

In robotics, there are two fun­da­men­tally dif­fer­ent approaches to pro­gram­ming a robot for its indi­vid­ual task:
either via the respec­tive native pro­gram­ming lan­guage or through the imple­men­ta­tion of an exter­nal pro­pri­etary con­troller which con­trols the robot fine-gran­u­larly. These con­trollers are typ­i­cally imple­mented with the help of the Robot Oper­at­ing Sys­tem (ROS).

Both approaches have their respec­tive advan­tages – and dis­ad­van­tages. In the cur­rent blog post we will take a closer look at these.

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IFR Robot Density in the manufacturing industry 2019

Feb­ru­ary 2, 2021

IFR: 2.7 Mil­lion robots work in fac­to­ries around the globe

Ger­many remains the main user in Europe

Accord­ing to the Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Robotics (IFR), about 2.7 mil­lion indus­trial robots were installed around the world in 2019 – an increase of 12%. This is a world­wide increase of 85% within five years (2014-2019).

With 221,500 indus­trial robots (346 per 10,000 employ­ees), Ger­many is by far the largest mar­ket in Europe.

Asia remains the strongest mar­ket. The share of newly installed robots in Asia was about two thirds of global supply.

IFR Pres­i­dent Mil­ton Guerry is not yet will­ing to com­mit the impact of the Corona pan­demic for the global econ­omy. How­ever, the fed­er­a­tion also sees a great chance for mod­ern­iza­tion and dig­i­tal­iza­tion of pro­duc­tion on the way to recovery.

Source: IFR

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Release ArtiMinds RPS Version 1.10 - Highlights and changes

Feb­ru­ary 1, 2021

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.10

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.10 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights such as the sup­port of ABB robots with IRC5 con­troller, the new ‘Wait’ tem­plate and the CAD2Path+Force func­tion­al­ity to gen­er­ate force-con­trolled paths.

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

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Jan­u­ary 18, 2021

Fast set up of auto­mated grind­ing processes using ArtiMinds RPS and ArtiMinds LAR

For a cus­tomer project, SHL, an expert in the devel­op­ment of flex­i­ble robotic cells in the field of sur­face fin­ish­ing, was asked to carry out tri­als for the auto­mated grind­ing of med­ical dis­in­fec­tors. SHL decided to carry out a project with ArtiMinds Robotics to test the suit­abil­ity of force/torque sen­sors for the required adap­tion of the system.

Learn more about the project and cooperation
Screenshot Prüfung mit Ausschlag auf Echograph

Jan­u­ary 7, 2021

Robot-sup­ported ultra­sonic defect test­ing and qual­ity control

Using ultra­sonic, defects in com­po­nents and inho­mo­geneities can be located. Robot-sup­ported automa­tion can reduce test costs and test time and make mea­sure­ments repro­ducible. ArtiMinds RPS sup­ports com­pa­nies in pro­gram­ming a force con­trolled appli­ca­tion with less effort and in automat­ing path plan­ning for com­plex components.

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Decem­ber 19, 2020

Sea­son Greetings

In this chal­leng­ing year, we would like to thank you for your trust and the good coop­er­a­tion and we wish you and your fam­ily a happy hol­i­day sea­son as well as a healthy and suc­cess­ful start into the new year 2021!

“Hap­pi­ness often comes from pay­ing atten­tion to small things,
often mis­for­tune is caused by neglect­ing small things.”
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Kind regards, Your ArtiMinds team

E-Paper Robot Programming

Novem­ber 19, 2020

Hard­ware inde­pen­dent robot programming

Force/torque sen­sors are proven tools in many robot appli­ca­tions, e.g. to com­pen­sate manufacturing
tol­er­ances or wear and thereby increas­ing the robust­ness. For this pur­pose, robot man­u­fac­tur­ers offer
exten­sive tech­nol­ogy pack­ages for their con­trollers, but their use requires spe­cial exper­tise and extensive
pro­gram­ming knowledge.
With ArtiMinds RPS +Force you can imple­ment robot appli­ca­tions with force/torque sen­sors in a very short time, even with­out spe­cial knowl­edge. Since the robot code is gen­er­ated auto­mat­i­cally and, dur­ing online mode, there is a direct con­nec­tion to the robot con­troller, you can test solu­tion approaches such as prob­ing, search­ing for holes or torque bal­anc­ing live on the robot with­out high pro­gram­ming effort – and thus save a lot of time dur­ing process development.
ArtiMinds RPS +Force sup­ports a wide range of force/torque sen­sors and offers over 25 tai­lored build­ing blocks and wiz­ards, as well as the exten­sion of the robot’s live data with sen­sor mea­sure­ment data.
The ArtiMinds e-paper shows which man­u­fac­tur­ers, force/torque sen­sors and grip­pers are supported.

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Novem­ber 9, 2020

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.9.9

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.9.9 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights such as the inte­gra­tion of three new KUKA robot mod­els as well as the imple­men­ta­tion of two new tem­plates (Switch tem­plate and Dia­log builder template).

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

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Polishing Surface

Novem­ber 06, 2020

Spe­cial webi­nar issue “sur­face pro­cess­ing”

On Decem­ber 1 and 2 we are offer­ing new free webi­nars focussing on “robot-sup­ported sur­face pro­cess­ing” as spe­cial topic. With ref­er­ence to indus­trial prac­ti­cal exam­ples, we show the chal­lenges in grind­ing, pol­ish­ing and debur­ring and how these processes can  be auto­mated eas­ily and robustly with robots.

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Novem­ber 04, 2020

New ArtiMinds FAQ section

In our new FAQ sec­tion we answer the most impor­tant ques­tions about the ArtiMinds soft­ware solu­tions, our ser­vices, appli­ca­tions and tech­ni­cal requirements.

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Kunde BSH

Octo­ber 22, 2020

B/S/H pre­sen­ta­tion on “Inte­grated Robtics and Assem­bly Plan­ning”

From 3 to 4 Novem­ber Siemens is orga­niz­ing a dig­i­tal event called “Real­ize Live Europe”. The focus of this event is to learn more about approaches and inno­va­tions that drive dig­i­tal transformation.

ArtiMinds cus­tomer B/S/H, one of the lead­ing home appli­ance man­u­fac­tur­ers world­wide, will be talk­ing about how B/S/H real­izes a higher process effi­ciency through inte­grated robotics and assem­bly plan­ning and which role ArtiMinds plays in this context.
As a Siemens part­ner ArtiMinds, Siemens and B/S/H are work­ing very closely and suc­cess­fully together since sev­eral years.

Find more infor­ma­tion on the event website.

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Octo­ber 2, 2020

Why ArtiMinds – our soft­ware at a glance

ArtiMinds RPS and LAR sup­port the user in all phases of his robot appli­ca­tion, from plan­ning and pro­gram­ming to com­mis­sion­ing and oper­a­tion.

Our new info­graph­ics show how ArtiMinds can be con­sis­tently inte­grated into new and exist­ing automa­tion sys­tems as well, what added value and advan­tages the soft­ware cre­ates and how you can still remain inde­pen­dent in your work and processes.

Learn more
2020_09_Omron Tutorial

Sep­tem­ber 14, 2020

New video tuto­r­ial: Set­ting up an OMRON FHV smart camera

With the new release V1.9.7 the OMRON FHV smart cam­eras for uni­ver­sal robots are sup­ported. Find out how to con­fig­ure the OMRON cam­era for your robot appli­ca­tion with ArtiMinds RPS in our new video tutorial.

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Sep­tem­ber 14, 2020

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.9.7

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.9.7 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights such as the exten­sion of the sup­ported hard­ware by OMRON FHV smart cam­eras, the pos­si­bil­ity to blend between addi­tional motion types and the visu­al­iza­tion of “blended” 3D paths.

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

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Fig. 2: Select TCP

Sep­tem­ber 1, 2020

TechTip CAD2Path: Why the ori­en­ta­tion of the TCP is impor­tant, that all points can be reached

The CAD2Path fea­ture allows to import CAD mod­els into ArtiMinds RPS, thereby min­i­miz­ing the pro­gram­ming effort for com­po­nents with com­plex geometries.

What can you do if a point the­o­ret­i­cally in reach of the robot is still marked as not reach­able after the path import? Our cur­rent TechTip shows how you can solve this acces­si­bil­ity prob­lem in just a few steps and what role the ori­en­ta­tion of the TCP plays.

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Tutorial Calibration CAD2Path

August 21, 2020

New tuto­r­ial: Cal­i­bra­tion of a 3D CAD model to the real work piece

This tuto­r­ial shows how to match the posi­tion of the real work piece with the path gen­er­ated via the CAD2Path func­tion in ArtiMinds RPS. Thanks to the com­bi­na­tion of online and offline pro­gram­ming the exact posi­tion of the 3D CAD model can eas­ily be cal­i­brated in a few steps.
This approach can also be used for the cal­i­bra­tion of 3D mod­els in gen­eral, e.g. for work­place digitization.

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E-Paper Robot Programming

August 14, 2020

New ArtiMinds e-paper: Stan­dard­ized robot programming

Since ArtiMinds is com­pat­i­ble with numer­ous indus­trial robots, force-torque sen­sors, grip­pers and vision sys­tems, you are able to pro­gram your robot appli­ca­tion inde­pen­dently of man­u­fac­tur­ers and you remain flex­i­ble in the selec­tion of the hard­ware that suites best for your needs. Robot pro­grams cre­ated with ArtiMinds can also be trans­ferred to another robot at any time.

How does con­sis­tent and stan­dard­ized pro­gram­ming with ArtiMinds work?
The e-paper gives an overview of the sup­ported robots and periph­eral devices and pro­vides infor­ma­tion on the prod­ucts and their fields of application.

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August 5, 2020

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.9.6

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.9.6 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights such as the pos­si­bil­ity to add (indi­vid­ual) names and types of motion tem­plates to the gen­er­ated code and the addi­tion of  new builders tem­plates for set­ting and read­ing variables.

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

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July 16, 2020

Stan­dard­ized robot programming

Today, robots can already do more than one might think. You just have to “teach them.” But it is exactly this teach­ing, i.e. robot pro­gram­ming, that is the rea­son why many com­pa­nies shy away from using robots. Small and medium-sized com­pa­nies dread the large pro­gram­ming effort, while large com­pa­nies are always trou­bled by the lack of standardization.
How can you over­come these hurdles?

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CAD Robot Programming

June 29, 2020

TechTip CAD2Path: Avoid­ing incor­rect cal­cu­la­tions of the sur­face normals

The CAD2Path fea­ture min­i­mizes the pro­gram­ming effort for com­po­nents with com­plex geome­tries and allows you to import CAD mod­els into ArtiMinds RPS. Depend­ing on the shape of an object errors may occur if the auto­matic cal­cu­la­tion assumes an incor­rect ref­er­ence surface.

Our cur­rent TechTip shows how this can be eas­ily avoided.

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Free Robotics Seminar

June 23, 2020

New online sem­i­nar dates: automat­ing with robots

Would you like to pro­duce more effi­ciently and auto­mate indus­trial processes with robots?
Then our free online sem­i­nar series “Automat­ing with robots” offers you first help­ful insights and tips.

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Software Realease Intuitive Robot Programming

June 17, 2020

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.9.4

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.9.4 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights like the addi­tion of  the new tem­plate “Move to Point”, the addi­tion of a sec­ond sim­u­la­tion func­tion as well as the improve­ment of the link between Carte­sian key posi­tions of tem­plates and 3D points in the Point Tool.

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

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CAD robot programming simulation

June 10, 2020

Tra­vers­ing com­plex paths with lit­tle pro­gram­ming effort

Would you like to deburr, pol­ish or apply adhe­sive to com­po­nents with com­plex geome­tries with a robot? The CAD2Path fea­ture reduces the pro­gram­ming effort required for such appli­ca­tions to a min­i­mum by allow­ing you to import CAD mod­els of the part into the ArtiMinds Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite (RPS). The soft­ware then auto­mat­i­cally extracts the model’s edges.
After the desired path has been selected, it can be mod­i­fied and the curve para­me­ters can be set, i.e. the spec­i­fi­ca­tion of how the TCP should move around the object. Finally, the (com­plex) tra­jec­tory is imported effort­lessly into the robot pro­gram as a path.
The CAD2Path fea­ture sup­ports the for­mats STEP, IGES, BREP as well as BINBREP.

Ques­tions? Con­tact our sup­port team at any time
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Image Source: ZF Friedrichshafen AG

May 28, 2020

New Case Story of ZF Friedrichshafen

Pro­gram and sim­u­late robot appli­ca­tions inde­pen­dently of man­u­fac­tur­ers, reduce main­te­nance costs and alle­vi­ate the lack of skilled workforces.

ZF, one of the largest auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers world­wide, explains in our new best prac­tice use case how they suc­ceed thanks to ArtiMinds.

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RPS Release 1.9.3

May 11, 2020

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.9.3

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.9.3 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights like the exten­sion of of the hard­ware sup­port for KUKA, Zim­mer, ATI and UR eSeries as well as the exten­sion of the wiz­ward for the Grid template.

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

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Free Robotics Webinars

May 1, 2020

Free Webi­nars: automat­ing with robots

Would you like to pro­duce more effi­ciently and auto­mate indus­trial processes with robots?
Then our free webi­nar series “Automat­ing with robots” offers you first help­ful insights and tips.

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ArtiMinds RPS Simulation

April 10, 2020

Robot cell design via manip­u­la­bil­ity calculation

When design­ing a robot cell, it is essen­tial to be able to sim­u­late which points can´t be reached by a robot and which points may be dif­fi­cult to reach. The ArtiMinds RPS fea­ture manip­u­la­bil­ity cal­cu­la­tion sup­ports the user by color-cod­ing the degree of how good an indi­vid­ual point can be reached by the TCP.

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automatica Messe

March 27, 2020

auto­mat­ica is post­poned – new date in Decem­ber 2020

The trade fair for robotics and automa­tion will be post­poned due to the cur­rent corona sit­u­a­tion and will take place from 8 to 11 Decem­ber 2020. ArtiMinds Robotics is look­ing for­ward to wel­com­ing you in Munich in hall C6, booth 306.

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ArtiMinds Robotics – Best Practice mit Visomax Coating

March 23, 2020

Best Prac­tice: force con­trolled pol­ish­ing with robots

Viso­max Coat­ing GmbH has devel­oped a solu­tion to auto­mate the force-con­trolled pol­ish­ing of painted sur­faces with robots using ArtiMinds RPS.

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ArtiMinds RPS Release 1.9

Feb­ru­ary 21, 2020

Release of ArtiMinds RPS 1.9

The lat­est ArtiMinds RPS ver­sion 1.9 is now avail­able for instal­la­tion. The major changes include high­lights like a per­ma­nently vis­i­ble help win­dow on the right hand side of the screen, which will dynam­i­cally dis­play entries of the ArtiMinds RPS online help depend­ing on the cur­rent user inter­ac­tion and sup­port of Fanuc iRVi­sion cameras.

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

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CS Wibus Systems ArtiMinds RPS

Feb­ru­ary 10, 2020

Coop­er­a­tion of ArtiMinds with Wibu-Systems

ArtiMinds uses CodeMe­ter to pro­tect and license the Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite soft­ware. In a video inter­view, CEO Dr. Sven Schmidt-Rohr explains where he sees the advan­tages of the coop­er­a­tion with Wibu-Systems.

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