Further enhancing the ease of designing,
programming, and deploying robot cells while also equipping
advanced users with more powerful programming tools.
MONTREAL, May 1, 2024
/CNW/ - Vention, the cloud robotics company, released
today a suite of AI-powered capabilities to its Manufacturing
Automation Platform (MAP). These new capabilities, available
immediately to the more than 4,000 manufacturers already using
Vention, strengthen the company's position as the only end-to-end
platform to design, automate, order, deploy and operate automated
equipment and robot cells in the cloud.
MachineBuilder capabilities
enhanced for robot cell design
The latest version of MachineBuilder, Vention's cloud-based 3D
design software, brings forward the most comprehensive suite of
enhancements over the past 36 months with more intuitive and
smarter design tools.
Specific product capabilities include:
- Streamlined design flow: Empowers teams to work faster
and more confidently with hundreds of machine design
templates.
- Smarter part placement: Minimizes the effort of creating
mechanical structures when designing in 3D. Powered by Vention's
AI-driven Geometric Reasoning Engine (GRE), components added to a
design automatically snap to the desired orientation with minimal
user input.
- Enhanced part manipulation: Reduces the learning
curve of designing in MachineBuilder with new part manipulation
tools powered by contextual guidance and a more discoverable 3D
manipulator.
- Real-time design and part specifications: Increases
visibility into part and design specifications with real-time
updates as components are added to the bill of material. Technical
specifications, 2D drawings and more are now directly available in
the 3D design environment.
Robotic programming capabilities
pave the way for complex cloud applications
The release of Vention's MachineLogic new code-free programming
instructions further simplifies how users program robot arms and
all adjacent devices in a robotic cell. Combined with the new scene
asset functionality, developers can leverage their digital twin to
accelerate the deployment process. Users can now program their
robot in the cloud and deploy it directly to the factory floor.
Specific product capabilities include:
- Point and click robot programming: Inserts waypoints and
reference frames easily into a digital twin. Enables developers to
visualize the position of reference frames and waypoints in the
scene using new scene widgets.
- Extensible workflows and powerful authoring
capabilities: Defines parametric reference frames and waypoints
with variables and expressions.
- Calibration Frame: Defines calibration frames in your
digital twin to enable the level of precision required for your
robotic application.
Instantly and securely deploy
robot cells from the cloud to the factory floor
The inclusion of a new instant deployment functionality empowers
robotic developers to transfer programs and machine configurations
from a digital twin to a physical machine directly in the web
browser. This new feature integrates with Vention's ISO 27001 and
NIST-800-171 certified MachineCloud infrastructure, expediting
deployment processes and facilitating a seamless redeployment from
the digital twin to the real world without disrupting
production.
Enhanced user interface authoring
added to the cloud robotics platform
Vention adds web development tools and workflows to its
cloud-based robot programming platform, enabling advanced users to
create and simulate robot applications that contain feature-rich
operator interfaces. This new release confirms Vention's commitment
to providing an extensible platform that strives to meet the
robotics industry's and its practitioners' evolving needs.
In addition, as a continuation of its commitment to the needs of
its industry, Vention will publish the second edition of its
State of DIY Industrial Automation Report on May 6. Following its success in 2023, the company
has decided to survey their clients again to understand better the
trends unveiled last year, such as the emergence of Advanced
Manufacturing Teams, the importance of platforming industrial
automation and the preference for self-service and self-design.
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"Those releases are
all about the intersection of robotics and AI-driven design
capabilities. Unlike traditional 3D design and offline programming
software, Vention's Manufacturing Automation Platform is poised to
leverage AI to simplify the design-to-deployment
experience. With a dataset comprising over 365,000
automated equipment and robotic cell designs, each labeled with
rich geometric data and metadata, and continuous investment in
Vention's Geometric Reasoning Engine and Graph Neural Networks, the
task of designing, automating, ordering, deploying, and operating
robotic cells in the cloud has never been more seamless. And this
is just the beginning." – Etienne
Lacroix, founder and chief executive officer,
Vention.
More information at Automate
2024
From May 6 to 9, visit Vention's
booth No.2813 to see six machines in action and attend software
demos and educational animations.
Company Founder and CEO Etienne
Lacroix will speak twice on May
6:
- 11:15 a.m. to noon: Room S401cd -
"The Rise of the Advanced Manufacturing Team and DIY Industrial
Automation"
- 1:45 - 2:45 p.m.: Automate Show
Theater - Panel Discussion: "How Ease-of-Use Automation is
Empowering Industries"
About Vention
Vention helps some of the most innovative manufacturers automate
their production floors in just a few days through a democratized
user experience. Vention's manufacturing automation platform allows
clients to design, automate, deploy and operate automated equipment
directly from their web browsers. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with one office in
Berlin, Vention's 300 employees
serve 4,000+ customers in five continents and across 25
manufacturing industries.
For more information, visit vention.com or follow us
on LinkedIn.
*MachineBuilder, MachineLogic, MachineCloud, and Vention are
trademarks of Vention Inc.
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