Comau + CIM4.0 (case424)

Welcome to the CIM 4.0 (Competence Industry Manufacturing) in Turin.

Demo assembly station with a Comau Racer-5 COBOT

Our approach

The demo application that Comau implemented @CIM4.0 is a collaborative robotic – or cobotic – station to show exactly what can be achieved with a collaborative robot. The Comau Racer-5 cobot combines the use of vision systems with an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify the parts placed on the process pallet, it then picks up the parts just like an industrial robot and moves them to the right position for assembly.

 

In this phase, the operator intervenes to handle the small skateboard axle screws that the robot’s clamp is unable to pick up. During this operation, the robot switches from industrial mode to collaborative mode and waits for the human operator to perform the task.

 

There is no need for access barriers and the operator can approach the robot in complete safety either to remedy a possible malfunction or to perform the manual operation, all in conformity to certified safety standards for collaborative operations involving humans and robots.

 

Paolo Brizzi, CIM4.0 Digital Manufacturing Program Manager , said:

Our aim was to construct a line that performs an assembly process as similar as possible to that of a real industrial production line. To do so, we had to build a complete little factory, with all the connectivity required in terms of operational technologies, based on a segregated profinet architecture and an IT system with a backbone for workstations, an office network, and architecture for connecting to the cloud and to a redundant network via two high-speed fibre connections.

THIS IS COLLABORATIVE

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The Racer-5 cobot switches from industrial mode to collaborative mode

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There is no need for access barriers or fences

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The robot behaves just like an industrial robot when the operator is not nearby

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The robot combines the use of vision systems with an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify the parts

About CIM

The Com­pe­ten­ce Cen­tre Manu­fac­tu­ring Indu­stry 4.0 (CIM4.0) aims to pro­vi­de the stra­te­gic and ope­ra­ti­ve sup­port instru­men­ts for manu­fac­tu­ring-orien­ted enter­pri­ses toward the digi­tal tran­sfor­ma­tion of indu­strial pro­ces­ses (from desi­gn to pro­duc­tion, from R & D to the sup­ply chain, from cyber­se­cu­ri­ty to the bloc­k­chain) accor­din­gly to the Indu­stry 4.0 vision. CIM4.0 aims to stron­gly acce­le­ra­te, at local and natio­nal level, the tran­sfor­ma­tion pro­cess of a wide por­tion of Ita­lian pro­duc­tion eco­sy­stem; espe­cial­ly SMEs. CIM4.0 pro­po­se itself as an inte­gra­ted refe­ren­ce point for all tho­se acti­vi­ties con­cer­ning the push of skills and good prac­ti­ces. Besi­des, it pro­vi­des trai­ning actions and expe­rien­ces in the field, tech­no­lo­gi­cal sec­tors and indu­strial areas of the Pied­mont region; also sprea­ding this exper­ti­se in the ove­rall Ita­lian ter­ri­to­ry. The CIM4.0 is based on the con­cept of “pilot lines” or manu­fac­tu­ring demon­stra­tion lines.

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