Visual Components Integrations

KUKA.Sim is an intelligent simulation software designed for efficient offline programming of KUKA robots, enabling users to optimize system and robot operations outside the production environment swiftly and effortlessly. The software facilitates the creation of digital twins, providing an identical representation of subsequent production processes. This 3D simulation encompasses the entire planning process, from process design and visualization of material flows to identifying bottlenecks and generating PLC code. KUKA.Sim ensures 100% data consistency, allowing both virtual and real controllers to operate with identical data, thereby laying the groundwork for virtual commissioning. This approach enables pre-testing and optimization of new production lines, offering significant time savings by allowing rapid and individualized planning of system and robot concepts without the necessity of physical construction.

RobotStudio is the world’s most popular offline programming and simulation tool for robotic applications. Based on the best-in-class virtual controller technology, the RobotStudio suite gives you full confidence that what you see on your screen matches how the robot will move in real life. Enabling you to build, test, and refine your robot installation in a virtual environment, this unique technology speeds up commissioning time and productivity by a magnitude. The RobotStudio desktop version allows you to carry out programming and simulation without disturbing ongoing production. RobotStudio cloud enables individuals and teams to collaborate in real-time on robot cell designs from anywhere in the world, on any device. The RobotStudio Augmented Reality Viewer enables you to visualize robots and solutions in a real environment or in a virtual room on any mobile device for free. Both the desktop and mobile applications enable teams to collaborate and make faster decisions.

Bringing products to the market faster while maintaining high quality requires integrated engineering workflows along with short changeover and start-up times. SIMIT Simulation Platform allows for comprehensive testing of automation applications and provides a realistic training environment for operators – even prior to plant startup. SIMIT creates opportunities for process optimization and know-how retention, leading to reduced commissioning time and significantly shortened time-to-market. The end result: greater efficiency throughout the entire life cycle of your manufacturing or process plant. SIMIT enables comprehensive testing of automation projects as well as the virtual commissioning of systems, machines, and processes on a single platform. The simulation platform also provides realistic training environments in which to train operating personnel.

FANUC's ROBOGUIDE is a leading offline programming and simulation software for FANUC robots, enabling users to create, program, and simulate robotic work cells in a 3D environment without the need for physical prototypes. This software family includes process-focused packages such as HandlingPRO, PaintPRO, PalletPRO, and WeldPRO, each tailored to specific applications like material handling, painting, palletizing, and welding. By utilizing virtual robots and work cell models, ROBOGUIDE minimizes risks and costs by allowing visualization and optimization of single and multi-robot work cell layouts before actual installation. This approach facilitates accurate cycle time calculations, reachability checks, and collision detection, ensuring the feasibility and efficiency of robot programs and cell layouts. Additionally, ROBOGUIDE supports CAD-to-path programming, conveyor line tracking, and machine modeling, enhancing the precision and flexibility of robotic operations.

Yaskawa Motoman's MotoSim EG-VRC (Enhanced Graphics Virtual Robot Controller) is a sophisticated offline programming and 3D simulation software tailored for the precise programming of complex robotic systems. It enables users to construct and simulate robotic work cells virtually, eliminating the need for physical robots during the development phase. Key features include optimizing robot and equipment placement, reach modeling, accurate cycle time calculations, automatic path generation, collision detection, system configuration, condition file editing, and Functional Safety Unit (FSU) configuration. The software incorporates a virtual robot controller, providing a programming pendant interface identical to the actual controller, ensuring a seamless transition from simulation to real-world application. Additionally, MotoSim EG-VRC offers access to an extensive model library, allowing users to download a broad range of third-party models to enhance their simulations.