Realtime Robotics Integrates Robot Motion Planning & Control Software With Siemens Process Simulate
Integration Empowers Siemens Customers to Visualize, Simulate and Validate Robot Task Plans from Directly Within the Process Simulate Environment
Realtime Robotics, the leader in collision-free autonomous motion planning for industrial robots, today announced that it has teamed with Siemens to integrate its RapidPlan software with Siemens Process Simulate, in the company's Tecnomatix® portfolio.
"The combination of Process Simulate with Realtime Robotics' automated motion planning and interlocking has provided a significant improvement to our efficiency, reducing our off-line programming efforts by more than 80%," said Michael Schaubmayr, Group Manager, Mechanical Engineering Simulation, at VALIANT TMS. "This presents to us a tangible and strategic advantage in the industry."
Realtime Robotics RapidPlan software helps manufacturers design and deploy industrial automation faster and more efficiently. The programming, deployment and control of industrial robots is automated, autonomously generating and choreographing all robot movements. Users create a digital twin simulation of their workcell and then simply point and click on robots and target points to create and visualize collision-free task plans, saving weeks to months of programming time per project.
With Realtime Robotics for Siemens Process Simulate, positions and waypoints can be updated without reprogramming; time-consuming manual tasks can be reduced with automated and collision-free interlock programming; and a massive reduction in programming time can be realized.
Key benefits of this integration include:
• Streamline Cell Commissioning - With RapidPlan, customers get paths that avoid collisions between robots and with other objects in the cell.
• Improve Decision-Making - Simple, straightforward logic is made possible by the software, making it easy to intuitively configure robots or optimize for cycle time.
• Quickly Evaluate and Validate Options - The need to undertake lengthy, laborious manual robot path validation is eliminated as RapidPlan quickly evaluates changes and validates available options.
• Work Directly in Siemens Process Simulate - There's no longer a need to switch between programming and simulation programs. RapidPlan integrates with Process Simulate, and can run either on the same PC or in a separate environment.
• Automatic Viapoints and Interlocks - Process Simulate automatically records RapidPlan generated viapoints, removing the need for manual viapoint and interlock validation.
"Robot programming and task planning has been a time-consuming - and frankly, difficult - process for far too long. We founded Realtime Robotics to change that once and for all," added George Konidaris, co-founder and chief roboticist at Realtime Robotics. "This integration with Siemens will make it much easier for those using Process Simulate to eliminate collisions and quickly take robot task plans from simulation to reality."
Realtime Robotics has a long-standing partnership with Siemens, with its technology helping to simplify robot programming and workcell coordination through the automation of motion programming. The company recently announced additional funding, and will be showcasing its technology at the annual International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2022, taking place from September 12-17, 2022, in Chicago, IL.
For more information about the Siemens Process Simulate integration, visit: https://rtr.ai/simulate/. Additional details on the company's RapidPlan software is available here: https://rtr.ai/meet-rapidplan/.
About Realtime Robotics
Realtime Robotics technology generates collision-free motion plans in milliseconds for industrial robots and autonomous vehicles. Its solution empowers robots to function together in unstructured and collaborative workspaces, as well as to react to dynamic obstacles the instant changes are perceived. Its solutions expand the potential of automation. Learn more about Realtime Robotics here, watch our technology in action here and connect on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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