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

Galli did not have any expe­ri­ence and touch points in the imple­men­ta­tion of robotics appli­ca­tions up to that point. There­fore, Uni­ver­sal Robots rec­om­mended Roberto Ver­duci, R&D Man­ager at Galli, to take a look at the pro­gram­ming soft­ware ArtiMinds Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite (RPS). He quickly real­ized what a great time saver and sim­pli­fier the intu­itive, func­tion block-based graph­i­cal pro­gram­ming was. He explains, “The soft­ware is so intu­itive to use that we didn’t need to take any train­ing.” Thanks to ArtiMinds, Galli was able to com­plete the project, from design to pro­gram­ming to imple­men­ta­tion, with­out an exter­nal integrator.
“ArtiMinds RPS offers a wide range of pre­de­fined tem­plates and fea­tures that guide and sup­port the pro­gram­mer to pro­gram even com­plex appli­ca­tions inde­pen­dently. Since the soft­ware gen­er­ates native robot code, one is absolutely flex­i­ble at all times and can, for exam­ple, also make changes directly on the robot,” explains Verduci.

Thanks to the CAD2Path func­tion of ArtiMinds RPS the prob­lem of vary­ing geome­tries can be eas­ily solved. Instead of time-con­sum­ing teach-in of all points with the robot, (geo­met­ri­cally com­plex) pro­files can be imported from CAD mod­els and the soft­ware auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ates the exact robot path from this. But it is not only this fea­ture that leads to con­sid­er­able time sav­ings in the pro­gram­ming phase: “Aux­il­iary func­tions such as wiz­ards sim­plify the para­me­ter­i­za­tion of the indi­vid­ual func­tion blocks. Thanks to the 3D sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment, it is pos­si­ble to per­form col­li­sion and reach­a­bil­ity analy­ses already in the plan­ning phase and in offline mode.” 

Robot-based automa­tion of processes pre­vi­ously car­ried out man­u­ally by the oper­a­tor has increased pro­duc­tiv­ity and pro­duced a con­sis­tent qual­ity result that, over­all, was even higher than before. The use of robots also has pos­i­tive effects in terms of per­son­nel resources: Because the oper­a­tor can now, on the one hand, ensure the smooth oper­a­tion of the machine with­out much effort and, in par­al­lel, take care of new and more impor­tant processes for which highly qual­i­fied know-how is required.
Accord­ing to Ver­duci, there is no com­pa­ra­ble alter­na­tive to the ArtiMinds Robot Pro­gram­ming Suite: “With ArtiMinds, on the other hand, we found a really help­ful tool with a con­vinc­ing price-per­for­mance ratio.”