Changing market conditions pose significant challenges for companies
Increasing product variations and shorter product life cycles increase the need for flexibility, adaptability and speed
The changed market conditions can also be felt in robot automation: more and more experts who can set up and program robot systems are missing. Due to increasing product variants and ever shorter product life cycles, the desire for more flexibility and fast adaptability of robot applications in machines and plants increases.
- Lack of expertise
- Self-developed solutions require a lot of time and money
- Different robot brands increase integration efforts
- Complex retrofitting of automation solutions
Advantages for solution providers
Opening up new markets
Tap into a market segment that was previously unaddressable: Customers with high demands on the flexibility and usability of the system.
Reduce time and costs
Benefit from available visualization and integration solutions instead of reinventing the wheel:
- Reduce development effort
- Reduce time to market
Stay independent
Same appearance of the user interface - regardless of the robot brand.
Less integration effort when using a new robot brand.
One system: Kemro X
Machine control, robotics, proprietary software, safety, visualization in one system reduce hardware costs, complexity and effort.
Robot programming
Classic versus drag&bot OS
In contrast to conventional robot programming with the teach pendant of the robot, operation with drag&bot OS is not only much easier and faster, but also more uniform.
You only need one software to operate all your robots.
Typical applications
Machine loading, Flexible Standard Cells and Robot Builders are the most common applications of drag&bot OS.
Machine feeding
The robot-assisted, integrated loading and unloading of machines offers machine manufacturers new opportunities to meaningfully expand their range around their core products. End users thus receive machine and automation from a single source.
With drag&bot OS, machine manufacturers get a ready-made solution for integrating robots from different manufacturers in conjunction with visualization for easy operation and customization by the end user. White-labeling and customer-specific extensions are possible without much effort.
Flexible robot cell
Flexible robot cells offer a cost-effective option for retrofitting robot automation in existing machinery. Thanks to the movable platform and intuitive operation, commissioning and changeover times are reduced, while the robot is always used exactly where it is needed.
drag&bot OS offers an easy-to-use, no-code user interface and works with ABB, Fanuc, KUKA, Yaskawa, etc.
Robot manufacturer
Manufacturers of process-specific industrial and collaborative robots need an integrated user interface such as drag&bot OS so that their end users can use their systems without time-consuming training and cumbersome line-by-line programming.
drag&bot OS – together with the robot controller KeMotion – offers a basic solution for intuitive and individually adaptable, graphical visualization and operation for robots with special tasks.
ZiMo - flexible robot cell
ZiMo, a mobile robot cell from the Zimmer Group, is suitable for process automation, for example for assembly, loading and unloading machines, pick-and-place or training purposes - especially for smaller and changing batch sizes. The cell makes it easy to get started with robot automation.
- Simple operation without programming knowledge: The robot and end effector are controlled via an integrated control panel with intuitive software.
- Time and resource savings: The flexible
robot cell can be set up and commissioned intuitively via the HMI, saving valuable time and resources. - Fast integration into existing processes: Rapid integration into existing processes minimizes downtime and facilitates the transition to automation without costly restructuring.
- Increase in quality: Whether semi-automated human-cobot collaborations or fully automated production, ZiMo offers faster cycle times and increases quality as well as productivity.
- Fast ROI: Rapid adaptation to individual customer requirements enables short set-up times, so that even small batches can be automated economically.
What our customer say
Lea Lang
Product Manager ZiMo
„The robot-independent programming environment of drag&bot offers both us and our customers considerable added value when operating the ZiMo mobile robot cell. Thanks to the intuitive user interface, customers can quickly and easily take their first steps into process automation - without any programming knowledge. drag&bot actively supports us in the further development of the ZiMo by working in partnership with us so that we can adapt our ZiMo to the different needs of more and more customers."
Michael Fraede
Managing Director - robotics.consulting
"In the age of digitalization, industrial robots are becoming increasingly flexible tools. Thanks to drag&bot's intuitive user interface, robots lose the horror of complicated programming for end users and can finally also be used flexibly by "laymen"."
Carsten Placke
Managing Director - Placke GmbH
"With drag&bot, our customers can teach in new bending parts in just a few minutes and thus reduce downtimes. This is a strong sales argument that sets us apart from our competitors!"
Jonas Arnold
Tech Center Robotics of ZF Friedrichshafen AG
"With drag&bot, we save a lot of time in our daily work with robots. We use this time for other challenges such as process development."
Dr. Javier Contreras
Automation & Machine Vision Consultant - Picoinspect
"I have to say that your competitive advantage is clearly how easy it is to program robots using the function blocks - well done! That's a great selling point."
Noel Ernsting Luz
Devloping Engineer - HALI tex GmbH
"We put one of the EPSON VT6s into operation ourselves for the production line with drag&bot OS. I'm amazed at how quickly and easily it went."
René von Fintel
Head of Product Management Cameras & Software - Basler AG
"Thanks to our partnership with drag&bot, we can serve the robotics market even better with vision solutions. The seamless integration of Basler's hardware and software into drag&bot opens up great opportunities for both existing and new customers to cost-effectively utilize vision in their robotic systems."
Jochen Vohwinkel
Dipl.-Ing. Senior teacher - Vocational school center Bietigheim-Bissingen
"drag&bot makes operating our KUKA iiwa child's play - now we can integrate the robot into the classroom much more easily."
Andreas Böhm
Dipl.-Business-Ingenieur - Saxon Textile Research Institute e.V. (STFI)
"We are very enthusiastic about your system, great operation and super expandable. It's great that you have designed it so openly that you can look inside the function blocks."
