Revolutionary Cloud-Based Solution Reduces Cycle Times, Lowers Costs, and Increases Throughput for Manufacturers
Realtime Robotics, a pioneering leader in automated collision-free motion planning, control, and optimization, has announced the launch of Resolver, an innovative cloud-based solution set to revolutionize robotic workcell design and deployment. Resolver significantly reduces the time and cost involved in designing and deploying workcells, providing manufacturers with the tools to optimize their robotic processes like never before.
Solving Complex Path Planning Challenges
Traditional robot path planning is a notoriously challenging, time-consuming, and error-prone task. In most robotic workcells, multiple robots are employed, requiring manual efforts to define interference zones and establish interlock signals to prevent collisions during manufacturing operations. The process of validating mechanical designs, planning robot paths, determining optimal sequencing for cycle time targets, and setting up interlocks can demand over 100,000 hours of work for a single project. Moreover, the complexity of these tasks often leads to missed cycle time goals, resulting in costly rework, affecting up to 15% of workcells.
How Resolver Transforms the Process
Realtime Robotics’ Resolver drastically accelerates the process by selecting and testing potential solutions tens to thousands of times faster than human programmers. It generates optimal, collision-free motion paths and interlock signals in record time. This allows manufacturers to automatically determine the fastest target order for their robotic processes, reducing the design cycle from months to days, while cutting engineering effort by 50%. As a result, cycle times are optimized, and overall throughput is improved.
Scalable Robotic Simulation on Demand
Resolver provides users with an affordable, on-demand, and infinitely scalable robotic simulation platform that can significantly streamline several key processes:
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Generating accurate proposals with optimized robot programming.
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Designing tools and fixtures that align with cycle time objectives.
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Producing efficient robot programs.
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Adjusting for as-built deviations during the commissioning phase.
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Assessing and mitigating the impact of product design changes during manufacturing.
Peter Howard, CEO of Realtime Robotics, commented, “It is widely understood that the future of manufacturing lies in robotics and automation. However, progress has been slow due to outdated, inefficient processes still common in the industry. Many manufacturers lack the time and resources required to create real change. Resolver has been engineered to address these challenges, helping manufacturers improve engineering, programming, and production while maximizing the value of their current and future robotic investments.”
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A Revolutionary Path Planning Tool
Resolver’s path planning capabilities are adaptable to workcells of any size and complexity, providing results in mere minutes. Its easy-to-use onboarding process ensures a quick setup, and it currently integrates directly with Siemens Process Simulate. Support for other leading simulation platforms will be added later in the year, ensuring flexibility for teams working in their preferred simulation tools.
“Resolver has the computational power to generate better motion paths than human programmers, whether in simple or complex workcells,” said Howard. “By searching all possible configurations for robotic arms, Resolver vastly outperforms human programmers, who tend to be limited by the physical constraints of the human body.”
With Resolver, organizations simply upload their workcell data, configure sequencing and conditions, and execute the process. Within minutes, Resolver generates motion paths, including interlocks, with superhuman efficiency. As it runs longer, Resolver continues to refine its output, shortening cycle times and achieving the desired outcome faster. The optimized paths and interlocks can then be easily imported back into the simulation software for validation and operational use.
Customer Testimonials
Marco Bizjak, Head of Competence Center Digital Factory and Technical Manager of Digitalisation at FFT, shared, “Resolver eliminates the most time-consuming aspects of industrial robotics—robot programming and optimization. What once took months can now be completed in hours. This provides a significant competitive advantage as we help our customers streamline their manufacturing processes.”
Additional Features and Benefits
Beyond motion planning and interlocks, Resolver enhances various aspects of the robotic workcell lifecycle, including fixture design, reachability validation, task allocation, and robot sequencing. It can be applied at any point in the project, from proposal to workcell design, providing manufacturers with a competitive edge by offering collision-free motion paths and more accurate cycle time estimates. This results in faster proposal generation and allows manufacturers to outbid competitors with more cost-effective, efficient solutions.
The solution also expedites the design phase by simplifying the traditionally labor-intensive task of path planning. Resolver automatically defines interlock signals and minimizes mechanical design iterations, saving valuable time and resources.
A Comprehensive Approach to Robotic Optimization
In addition to determining optimal motion paths, Resolver offers a holistic view of an entire manufacturing line, enabling organizations to optimize their operations early in the design phase. This approach reduces the need for tedious manual tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more critical, value-added activities.
With Realtime Robotics’ Resolver, the future of robotics and manufacturing is now faster, more efficient, and more accessible than ever before.
