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Innovation in

Automation

Barry Hendy

Managing Director ADDE.

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ADDE?

• Andrew Donald Design Engineering

• +20 years delivering automation solutions

• Experienced team – turnkey solutions

• Mechanical, electrical, controls; design and build

• Bayswater based

• Projects delivered to

• AstraZeneca, GSK, CSL, Hospira, Pfizer, MSD

• Food (GWF) and manufacturing.

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Innovation in Automation

• Collaborative Robots

• Autonomous Vehicles

• Key to success

• The 3 P’s

• Requirements

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Collaborative Robots

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Collaborative Robots

COBOTS• New breed of small, simple, sensitive.

• Able to operate ‘un caged’

• Sensitive to force and loads, able to respond

• Many easy to program, quick to set up

• Growing list of accessories and ‘apps’

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Cobots

• ABB YouMi

• Rethink Robotics - Baxter and Sawyer

• Universal Robots UR3, UR5 and UR10

• Kuka, Fanuc … more and more

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Rethink - Baxter

• Early and vocal player

• Double arm – humanoid

• Very safe

• Compliant

• Innovative ‘teach by show’.

• But very inaccurate

• Very slow

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Sawyer

• More accurate, faster

• Single arm

• Same programming system

• Evolving quickly

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ABB YuMu

• Small, accurate

• Targeted at electronic assembly

• 2 arms

• Selection of grippers including cameras

• Easily bolted to bench and ‘put to work’

• Limited by 500g capacity.

• Simple new ‘teach by show’ programming – pretty

useless.

• Still programmed with ABB traditional robot language

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YuMi

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Universal Robots

• Class leaders – over 10,000 installed

• 3kg, 5kg and 10kg – 500mm to 1300mm reach

• Simple programming – easy deployment

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Kuka

• Very impressive technology

• Fantastic force sensitivity

• Beautiful construction

• Light and dexterous

• Java programming

• Very expensive.

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Fanuc

• 35 kg lifting capacity!

• Traditional robot under padding and with

smart controls.

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Collaborative Robots

• Interesting approach to traditional application

• Opening new, simpler tasks

• Quick deployment for short-run projects

• Flexibility of no guarding

• But only collaborative if you don’t put a chainsaw on

the end.

• ‘Horses for courses’

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Cycle time …

• How fast can they go?

• Dependent on safety level

• Both legal and client safety standards

• Always needs a risk assessment

• Safety versus Production …

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Opportunities

• Simple in-house deployments

• Flexible and affordable automation

• Automation principals still apply

• Presentation of product

• Definition of process

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GaMP and Validation

• Process validation

• Easier or harder than an operator?

• Process and product risks must be identified

• Challenge to rapid deployment benefits?

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Autonomous Vehicles

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Mobile platforms

• Small, smart, simple AGV

• Self navigating

• No Infrastructure

• Range of sizes

• Tote size up to full pallet.

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Navigation

• No infrastructure.

• No wires or lines

• Scanners easily learn the environment and locations

• +/- 100mm

• Safe to interact with people

• Targets for high accuracy positioning

• +/- 10mm

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Amazon

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Applications

• Low-medium rate transfer

• End of line transfers

• Moving shippers to palletising or warehouse

• Material handling

• Delivering materials to lines

• Moving trolleys

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MiR

• Down the road from Universal Robots

• 100kg capacity

• 8hr+ operation on a charge

• Build the top for your application

• Conveyor

• Shelves

• Towing

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Adept/Omron Lynx

• Adept Robots bought by Omron

• Solid history

• Capable platform

• Trolley option

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ClearPath Otto

• Emerging new player

• Strong background in navigation

• Significant commitment to the new segment

• Otto 100 – small, 100kg

• Otto 1500 – Pallet size

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Applications?

• Fleet Management Software

• Capacity planning

• Non deterministic

• Top built to suit

• Power and interfaces available

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Automation Success

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The 3 P

• Product

• Process

• People

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Product

• Understand your product completely

• Range

• Variation

• Presentation

• Exceptions

• Quality

• Behaviour

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Process

• Understand every step of the process

• Explicit and implicit operations

• Human eye and hand are fantastic inspectors

• Exceptions

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People

• Will make or break any project

• Who will own it?

• Who wants it work?

• Who wants it to fail???

• Engage the team and stakeholders early. Very early.

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Requirements

• Pharmaceutical understand the URS well

• Peel back to the core requirements

• Product and process

• Really try to avoid defining a solution

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ANY QUESTIONS?

Barry Hendy

www.adde.com.au

barry@adde.com.au