Benefits of Robot Software

Deter­min­ing the prop­er posi­tion­ing of indus­tri­al robots can be a huge chal­lenge when set­ting up a robot work cell. Even small errors or over­sights in robot posi­tion or prox­im­i­ty to oth­er equip­ment could result in expen­sive down­time and repo­si­tion­ing. Worse still, a mis­cal­cu­la­tion in what size of robot to pur­chase or what range-of-motion it needs to have could result in it not being the cor­rect robot for the job. This would mean an expen­sive, time-con­sum­ing, and ful­ly avoid­able prob­lem for the com­pa­ny rely­ing on the robots.

In light of this chal­lenge, the ben­e­fits of robot sim­u­la­tion soft­ware like Robot­Works (not to be con­fused with the com­pa­ny Robots​.com) become obvi­ous. This sim­u­la­tion pro­gram works with pop­u­lar robot mod­els like Fanuc, KUKA, and Motoman and allows robot buy­ers to set up a vir­tu­al robot work cell in a com­put­er before order­ing the actu­al robots. This allows the buy­er to iden­ti­fy the best arrange­ment of the robot work cell, ensur­ing each robot can reach where it needs to in order to effi­cient­ly per­form its job, all while tak­ing up the least amount of space. The robot sim­u­la­tion soft­ware can also assure that the robots in the work cell won’t run into each oth­er, or what­ev­er they are work­ing on, avoid­ing cost­ly dam­age. A very impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion with these types of soft­ware is the accu­ra­cy of the com­put­er robot mod­els since the sim­u­la­tion is use­less if the com­put­er mod­els don’t behave like the real robots. This is where Robots​.com can use its exper­tise and resources to answer ques­tions about the ben­e­fits of robot sim­u­la­tion soft­ware and guide you to the best pro­gram for your needs.

The ben­e­fits of robot soft­ware also apply to the phys­i­cal robots them­selves. Mod­ern indus­tri­al robots can be pro­grammed indi­vid­u­al­ly or togeth­er as a com­plete work cell using pro­grams like ABB​’s Any­Where. This ben­e­fi­cial robot soft­ware allows the user to pro­gram com­plex tasks in a short amount of time with easy-to-under­stand desk­top-style inter­faces or icon-based graph­i­cal user inter­faces (GUIs). Anoth­er ben­e­fit of ABB​’s Any­Where soft­ware is that it allows remote access with net­work con­nect­ed robots. This allows the mon­i­tor­ing of a robot’s per­for­mance and abil­i­ty to make any nec­es­sary changes to its pro­gram­ming from a remote location. 

Robots​.com can help you choose the right robot soft­ware for your needs. Con­tact us at 877−762−6881 to get more infor­ma­tion today.