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Factory of the Future Lab

Together with our partners, we have prepared a place on the map of Warsaw where you can get to know, touch and above all, verify the concept of Industry 4.0 live. The Factory of the Future Lab is the part of our showroom CU.BE. Everything that is presented in the CU.BE showroom focuses on discovering technology, deepening knowledge and finding the best way to create an innovative solution with benefits for users (CUstomer BEnefits).

We provide our clients, partners, universities and our employees with a facility that has the ambition to become an active forum for the exchange of everyday knowledge and experience, not only for automation engineers but also programmers, data analysts, process owners as well as suppliers and service technicians of production systems.

We want to implement with you interesting and sometimes even crazy visions that we could not afford in a "normal" factory or in a "real" machine.

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Assembly line created by us consists of 90% of Bosch Rexroth's products and software, e.g: PLC driver, industrial computers, servo drives, inverters, linear displacement technology and assembly technique. Besides them, there are some unusual realisation such as portal manipulator. In addition, implemented autonomous AMR vehicle of the ActiveShuttle family demonstrates sample logistic processes supplying the position in the necessary components. Visitiors can also get to know how to integrate IT world (such as: clouds and analitics systems) with industry by application of modern sensors, protocols and IoT gates. The complement is implementation of idea of product's digital twin, which is used to controlling individual positions and integrating them to one "common organism".

Take a closer look at our assembly line

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    Cobot APAS

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    Delta

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    Cartesian robot with screwdriver

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    Portal manipulator

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    Laminate feeder

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    Feeder station

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    Smart Function Kit for Pressing

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Factory of the future

Cobot APAS

The APAS assistant mobile is a collaborative mobile robot for flexible use in the Smart Factory. It can be used independently of location and can adapt to different tasks. The intelligent robot on the line is primarily intended for pick and place process: the vision system in the gripper looks for the lid in the handheld storage, next the picking of the lid and placing it on the box body is realized.

Factory of the future
Factory of the future

Delta

The device consists of 3 KSM02 integrated motors that use GTE gears. A pneumatic suction cup was attached to the gripper base. An HMV02 module with the necessary hardware and an XM21 series PLC were used to drive and control the device. The robot picks up color balls from the magazine and inserts them into the appropriate places in the box. The vision system used in the ball feeding process, based on a Bosch Dinion camera, recognizes the required ball color and transmits information about the ball's position to the robot controller.

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Factory of the future

Cartesian robot with screwdriver

Cartesian robot equipped with a screwdriver screws the box lid to its base. It is built on the basis of four linear modules - three are based on a toothed belt, and the last one is based on a screw and roller mechanism. The modules in the X axis are connected by a coupling, and each motor also has a gearbox attached. Synchronous MS2N servo motors and HCS servo drives are responsible for driving the linear modules. The support structure of the device itself was built from aluminum profiles, connectors and angle brackets.

Factory of the future
Factory of the future

Portal manipulator

The task of the manipulator is to retrieve the base of the box from the warehouse and place it on a pallet, and to take the finished product off the line and place it back in the warehouse. A robot running on an MCL linear motor was used to perform this task. Along the permanent magnets of the MCS linear motor move two independent MCP runners. The platforms attached to these runners are connected to the bottom platform by crossed arms. A pneumatic gripper equipped with special fingers was used to grip the base of the box. Two HCS01 servo drives and an XM21 series PLC are responsible for driving and controlling the manipulator

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Factory of the future

Laminate feeder

A simple application consists of VKK product – feed module, electric motor and coupling. At the end of VKK unit, a pneumatic suction cup was mounted, which picks and places a sample laminate plate with a graphic logo into the right place on a box lid. The plates storage is integrated within the feeder application. After picking a laminate, the module rises it slightly, and the small table is hiding, VKK goes down and puts a laminate on the lid.

Factory of the future
Factory of the future

Feeder station

The Cartesian type manipulator designed for performing Pick & Place tasks. It consist of a linear CKK module in X-axis, a CKR in Y-axis and an EMC in Z-axis. This manipulator is equipped with an electric gripper which puts the lid inside the box.

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Factory of the future

Smart Function Kit for Pressing

The Smart Function Kit for Pressing implements the pressing process of the laminate plate placed earlier on a lid. The solution can be applied in many actual processes in manufacturing like e.g. pressing, lifting, handling and joining.

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Smart MechatroniX

Smart MechatroniX stands for "Plug & Produce, Perform, Proceed". This product's family is complete solution for common processes such as pressing, handling and dosing.

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ctrlX

ctrlX AUTOMATION blurs the boundaries between machine control, IT solutions and the Internet of Things. Drivers based in the Linux operating system, the use of open standards, a new approach in application development, network engineering are only part of the entire ctrlX World ecosystem, which offers all the building blocks needed for end-to-end automation solutions.

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Internet of Things

Our IoT solutions allow you to easily integrate your existing machines into the IT world. We offer tools for collecting, processing, normalizing and pre-analyzing data collected from various machines and communication interfaces. Data prepared in this way can then be easily sent to various IT and analytical tools or databases.

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Linear Motion Technology

We offer a wide range of solutions in the field of linear displacement technology. We have separate components from which you can assemble any machine tailored to your specific requirements. And with our LinSelect tool and the on-line configurator, you can easily configure the right system with just a few clicks.

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Electric Drives & Controls

We have developed for our customers the most compact, modular and energy-efficient drive systems that, in combination with our motors, allow the implementation of both standard and advanced applications that meet all requirements of a modern factory.

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Tightening technology

Bosch Rexroth has an extensive product portfolio in the field of tightening technology. Both automatic modular screwdrivers, designed for installation on robots and handheld screwdrivers are avaliable. In addition, it's worth highlighting the Nexo wireless intelligent screwdrivers and OGS operator guidance system.

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Industrial PC & HMI

In our portfolio you will see industrial computers, including those with a real-time system. You will also find operator panels, including those based on web technology, allowing you to create responsive, user-tailored, aesthetic graphic interfaces.

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Safety Technology

Ensuring machine safety and more importantly human safety, is something that must not be neglected. SafeLogic safety controllers ensure constant supervision of machines, and in combination with drives with SafeMotion technology, they allow more than just "safe shutdown" of machines. Dynamic safety zones, speed limits and many other functions will not only shorten the cycle time, but also significantly increase the level of safety.

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Manual Production Systems

It's a set of structures and elements that allow the design of individual, ergonomic workstations, warehouses and material delivery systems. All the elements are compatible with each other as part of our aluminium profiles' portfolio.

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Trasfer systems

For a fully automated series production with short cycle times or semi-automated one-off production, Bosch Rexroth offers tailored transport solutions. All our systems have been desingned with modularity in mind, thanks to which we can boast about the remarkable scalability of our solutions. You will find economical VarioFlow transport systems, universal systems of the TS series, or precise and fast systems on ActiveMover linear motors.

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Production line support

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ActiveShuttle

Bosch Rexroth has ready-made intralogistics solutions for an economical and optimized in-house flow of materials and goods. One such product is the Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) ActiveShuttle, which ensures that the transport of low load carts (SLC) is flexible and safe.

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ActiveCockpit

The interactive communication platform ActiveCockpit collects, processes and visualizes relevant data from the production line live. This ensures a quick response to any changes and deviations in the production process, which translated into an increase in the Total Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) ratio.

Our laboratory is also people

The idea of the demonstration assembly line was realized by the internal forces of our company in Poland together with a team of students from the Warsaw University of Technology. At the beginning, we only thought about a small Industry 4.0 technology demonstration. It could be something locked in a suitcase and visited by customers. However, as the project progressed, we came to the conclusion that to show what the digitization of production looks like, we need to create a larger facility that will also become a training base and laboratory for various automation projects. Today, despite the fact that part of the project team has completed their studies and chose other professional areas, we have designed a great group of specialists at Bosch Rexroth who have successfully developed and are still developing further competences in the digitization of production and modern automation. Together with our partners, who participated in the project, we have created something that we can be proud of, and we cordially invite you to it.

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