Comau
Comau is shaping innovation and taking digital-driven, advanced automation to a whole new level with powerful new solutions designed to accelerate deployment, increase quality, and ensure sustainable productivity inside and beyond the smart factory paradigm. Comau’s advanced mobile robotics solution for unstructured environments achieves higher productivity and quality. Comau’s unique approach is making advanced automation increasingly simple, intuitive, and accessible.
Comau is shaping innovation with an unprecedented autonomous mobile welding system. Considered a new paradigm in bringing automation to an unstructured environment, it was co-developed with an important partner and can be used for various applications in multiple industries.
The company’s Intrinsic Flowstate, a web-based developer tool for robotic solutions development, is accelerating automation by making robots more intelligent, easier to program and readily accessible to any industry. Comau is a longstanding innovation partner of Intrinsic and has helped to scope, test and validate Flowstate. The implementation and integration of Intrinsic’s advanced software capabilities will enable Comau to easily develop scalable, cost-effective solutions and preconfigured application templates that can be used to quickly deploy new or modified solutions. Comau’s customers will benefit from capabilities such as object pose estimation, automatic path planning with collision avoidance, controlled moves until contact, peg-in-hole applications and force-sensing assemblies. The software platform repetitive tasks, and a mobile robotics solution for unstructured environments to achieve both higher productivity and quality. Comau’s unique approach is making advanced automation increasingly simple, intuitive, and accessible.
Comau’s advanced automation solutions are being applied to very complex and nonlinear processes in an open and intuitive way by leveraging enhanced vision systems, sensors, neural networks, and its powerful robot control interface. The MI.RA/Picker and MI.RA/Depalletizer solutions have been designed to automate product sorting, receiving, and picking operations that are typically performed manually due to the high variability of parts and products. By automatically detecting and distinguishing between items, the advanced industrial robotic systems allow companies to streamline their processes, improve their flexibility and minimize production losses. Connected to MI.RA/Depalletizer, it will also feature Comau in.Grid, a proprietary IoT solution for data collection and line/cell//product/process monitoring.
The company’s e-Mobility offering includes automating manual processes and application areas that have been largely inaccessible with traditional robotic technologies, including cell formation, battery dismantling, and battery repurposing processes.
Comau will display a highly effective robotic welding training solution based on its e.DO educational robot and Seabery Soldamatic technology. The innovative simulated learning module is a direct response to the prohibitive characteristics of traditional welding training, which is costly, time-consuming and requires dedicated safety equipment. By providing a multi-sensory interface that includes sight, sound and touch, the highly calibrated and parameterized system creates the most realistic welding training experience aside from actual welding.
“Demand for automation is growing by more than 10% annually, with even higher peaks in new sectors that have had little to no automation until now,” explains Pietro Gorlier, Comau CEO. “Comau is shaping innovation by consolidating its longstanding expertise and working with a strong network of global leaders in their fields to develop increasingly diversified technologies, based on advanced robotics and digitalization, that can make production processes in many sectors increasingly efficient and sustainable. All this is possible thanks to our commitment to advanced automation and the skills of our people who, for the last 50 years, have been adding value to our company.”