Universal Robots has announced a Japanese version of “Application Builder,” a new online tool that helps build applications using Universal Robots collaborative robots.
Application Builder is a tool that allows users to select the best robots and end effectors such as hands on the website and perform simulations.
You can run applications in a virtual environment based on user-selected configuration options and understand how Universal Robots works in the process you envision.
Application Builder URL
https://www.universal-robots.com/en/Application Builder /
Below is a quote from the press release
Universal Robots (Representative Tsuyoshi Yamane, Minato-ku, Tokyo) has announced a Japanese version of a new online tool “Application Builder” that helps build applications using Universal Robots collaborative robots. Application Builder is a tool that allows users to select the best robot or end effector such as a hand on the website and perform a simulation.
When the user selects one of the typical applications of machine tending, screwing, and packaging, the steps required to configure that application are presented in plain language. Each step features a graphic image and each choice so that the user can determine if the choice is best. If there are no problems with the settings, proceed to the simulation. Here you can run your application in a virtual environment based on the configuration options you choose and see how Universal Robots works in the process you envision. In addition to simulating a virtual environment, we provide sample programs that can be used on actual robots. The user can use this sample program to verify how the application is programmed on the actual robot.
[Development background]
Labor shortage is a common issue not only in Japan but also in other countries around the world. Especially in Japan, due to the decrease in the labor force due to the declining birthrate and aging population and the shortening of working hours due to work style reforms, it is required to further improve the efficiency of operations at manufacturing sites.
The universal robot is the world’s first collaborative robot developed in 2008 targeting small and medium-sized manufacturing industries suffering from labor shortages. It is much easier to program than conventional industrial robots, it can be relocated flexibly because it saves space, and it has a lot of safety functions, so it has been introduced in many companies where it was difficult to introduce robots in the past. I will. Especially for programming, we have launched a free online training tool “UR Academy” so that companies that do not have specialist robot engineers in the company can use it, and we have provided an opportunity to learn the basics of robot programming.
The application builder released this time is an effort to take this even further. Users can easily build applications by selecting tools according to the guidance, and can improve their knowledge and ability of robot programming by utilizing the sample programs provided.
Go Yamane, the representative of Universal Robots, said as follows. Under the slogan of enabling automation in companies of all sizes, Universal Robots not only provides safe and easy-to-use products, but also prepares the surrounding environment so that even companies that do not have robot expertise can introduce it. We have focused on this. The application builder who released the Japanese version this time will also strengthen that effort. By utilizing the application builder, we will have you build an application that meets the needs of each user, and human resources will be required. We hope that you will help us solve the problems of productivity and quality improvement in the shortage.
[Contents of Application Builder]
- Application selection Choose from machine tending / screw tightening / packaging
- Robot selection Select the most suitable UR robot from the payload and reach
- Tool selection Select the most suitable product from the UR + selection
- Tool settings Select either single or dual gripper
- Work supply Select either the work supply position is constant or the pattern
- Interface selection Select the communication method between the robot and peripheral devices
- Work unload selection Select either constant or pattern
Once you have made all your selections, you will have a customized solution package. It contains sample programs, runbooks, and simulations. Users can start building real applications based on this package.
Application Builder URL https://www.universal-robots.com/en/Application Builder /
[About Universal Robots]
Established in 2005, Universal Robots is a compact, easy-to-use, reasonably priced, flexible and safe industrial robot for companies of all sizes to utilize robot technology. We are working on development. Since the announcement of the first collaborative robot in 2008, it has grown significantly by providing user-friendly cobots and is now sold worldwide. Universal Robots is a subsidiary of Teradyne Inc., headquartered in Odense, Denmark, with subsidiaries in the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Turkey, China, India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Mexico. And branch offices. Universal Robots sales in 2018 were $ 234 million. www.universal-robots.com/en