GE and Industrial Robot Automation

Hav­ing the right soft­ware is absolute­ly crit­i­cal to the build­ing the right automa­tion sys­tem for a facil­i­ty pro­duc­tion line. With­out soft­ware, man­u­fac­tur­ers have no way to pro­gram their robots. Com­pa­nies like GE have devel­oped indus­tri­al robot automa­tion soft­ware solu­tions that ensure man­u­fac­tur­ers accu­rate pro­duc­tion with min­i­mized downtime.

GE, which stands for Gen­er­al Elec­tric, has devel­oped Human Machine Interface/​Supervisory Con­trol and Data Acqui­si­tion (HMI/SCADA) soft­ware that allows man­u­fac­tur­ers accu­rate pro­duc­tion and process data access, accord­ing to the GE web­site. With this type of soft­ware, GE allows cus­tomers to visu­al­ize robot­ic oper­a­tions, along with the abil­i­ty to accu­rate­ly mon­i­tor every aspect of the pro­duc­tion process. This means that oper­a­tors also have access to places where there may be pro­duc­tion issues. One exam­ple would be mon­i­tor­ing pro­duc­tion speed and accu­ra­cy and find­ing a dis­crep­an­cy, which may show that there is a bad end effec­tor some­where on the line that is caus­ing problems.

GE robot soft­ware basi­cal­ly increas­es the over­all effec­tive­ness and effi­cien­cy of the pro­duc­tion line, which in turn, increas­es the qual­i­ty of prod­uct that is being man­u­fac­tured, while also reduc­ing pro­duc­tion costs. There are sev­er­al robot soft­ware solu­tions offered by GE, includ­ing Profi­cy HMI/SCADA – Cim­plic­i­ty, Profi­cy HMI/SCADA –iFIX and Profi­cy Pulse, along with oth­er pro­duc­tiv­i­ty packs. These GE soft­ware pro­grams allow oper­a­tors to gain vis­i­bil­i­ty, which is one of the most impor­tant and crit­i­cal parts of suc­cess­ful pro­duc­tion. By increas­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty of the automa­tion process in real-time, oper­a­tors are able to make deci­sions faster, which enhances pro­duc­tion uptime and saves the com­pa­ny mon­ey on lost pro­duc­tion time.

Does that kind of effi­cien­cy sound like a good idea? Man­u­fac­tur­ers look­ing for the per­fect robot automa­tion sys­tem for their pro­duc­tion line should look no fur­ther than Robots​.com, a robot­ics inte­gra­tor locat­ed in Mar­i­on, Ohio. Robots​.com pro­vides automa­tion solu­tions from sev­er­al top robot­ics com­pa­nies, includ­ing Fanuc, Motoman, KUKA, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and ABB. Our com­pa­ny also works with sev­er­al com­pa­nies that pro­vide us with end effec­tors and soft­ware for our sys­tems. Our staff will work with you to find the right robot sys­tem and soft­ware for your appli­ca­tion and budget.

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