KUKA SmartProduction Augsburg Step by step to production of the future As a thought leader and technology pioneer, 阀阀 also implements its own solution concepts in production at the Augsburg site. “阀阀 SmartProduction Augsburg” is the name of the project in which production cells with robots, processes and a great many other assets are all interconnected. The experience with digitization in the company’s own manufacturing operations shows that the development potential and future prospects of this approach are enormous and a genuine bene昀椀t for the production workers. The majority of robot types are built on KR AGILUS, KR titan or KMR iiwa, �The success of the project opens up a production line at KUKA’s Augsburg non-KUKA assets too, like the cell attractive perspectives for continued plant. For example in the cell for controller (PLC) or torque wrenches, development. For this purpose, the assembly of axis 1, where compo- are connected and visualized on the responsible parties involved call on nents for the first robot axis are KUKA SmartProduction user interface. assistance from the company’s own joined fully automatically. The KUKA Consulting group. In an intensive SmartProduction project kicked off This simultaneously demonstrated the exchange with the production specia- with this assembly procedure as the performance of the KUKA middleware lists, new potential applications are preconditions for networking the that is used, whose flexible and open developed which are to be implemented production cell were ideal. All assets architecture allows third-party assets to in the near future. employed there are already “intelligent” be connected without any problems. To or have a controller with an interface provide a specific example, a dashboard suitable for networking. Connecting all with various performance indicators for machines, also known as assets, to the the production managers was created cloud enables data to be collected and via the cell controller (PLC). Integration evaluated. The data and their analysis of the wrenches also makes it are visualized and presented to the possible for verification of all screw user via a graphical user interface. These connections to be displayed on the so-called asset views can be adapted as KUKA SmartProduction interface. In the desired and also provided with alarm event of a defect, the point at which functions in the case of faults. Besides a problem occurred with one of the KUKA’s own products, such as the wrenches can thus be quickly identified. 68�69