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Cognac is going digital
ABB COLUMN DON’T HESITATE – SIMULATE
The latest statistics from the International Federation of Robotics show a continued rise in the number of industrial robots being deployed worldwide, with 517,385 new industrial robots installed in 2021, taking the global installed base to around 3.5 million. While robots are becoming easier to deploy and operate, many manufacturers remain
Maison Camus, French cognac maker, has chosen Infor’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution – CloudSuite Food & Beverage – to meet its supply chain challenges and reduce waste. This project is part of a wider digital transformation plan, of which the deployment of this new ERP is one of the key steps. The aim is to provide the cognac business (some 30 products divided into several ranges) with a modern, structured tool, to manage all activities from manufacturing to sales administration, including accounting and fi nancial management, as well as procurement and stock management, all with increasingly demanding quality monitoring. “The project is several initiatives to modernise our
organisation and tools to enable us to look forward to the future with performance and serenity,” said Stanislas de Foucauld, Deputy General Manager of operations at Maison Camus.
The choice of Infor and its partner Hetic 3 was made since the solution met all the functional expectations as standard, and will easily interface with Maison Camus’s existing e-commerce platforms, tools, expense accounts and various other applications.
“The Infor solution appeared to be particularly intuitive and easy to use, which is a real asset in the context of implementing a remote working policy frame that should continue for us and our partners. In addition, its fl exibility and high level of parameterisation will imrove improve our effi ciency and performance production and omni-c hannel distribution wise,” said Aurélie Arlot, ERP project manager at Maison Camus.
uncertain about how to design, develop and install them into their applications. In an ABB survey, a total of 40% of respondents cited lack of technical knowledge or the belief that robots are too difficult to use as the reason for not adopting them. One answer is to use simulation software to see how robots will perform in your factory setting before comitting to a real-life physical installation.
Simulation tools can show the robot on a PC screen as part of
a graphic animation, giving a real sense of what the cell will look like, how it works and how it relates to other parts of your factory, warehouse or other working environment. Adjusting tool paths, tweaking rotation rates and moving the position of bins and conveyors can all be done easily to get the best layout. Doing it virtually can save months of work commissioning the real thing.
Companies with robots already in use can also employ simulation tools to alter their programming quickly and easily, allowing them to respond rapidly to changing market needs or supply challenges. Just such a tool is ABB’s RobotStudio. Its ease of use means that even people with little experience of robots can quickly get to grips with it and use it to develop new automation applications. Now available in PC and Cloud versions, RobotStudio is a powerful tool for modelling, testing and refining everything from a standalone robot to a complete robotic cell. The RobotStudio Cloud enables individuals and teams to collaborate in real time on robot cell designs from anywhere in the world, on any device. Further possibilities are offered by the Augmented Reality Viewer app, which enables users to overlay model designs created in RobotStudio into real-life environment to test their size and scale. To see what RobotStudio could do for you, visit
https://bit.ly/Robot_Studio.
Nigel Platt, LBL Manager, UK and Ireland, ABB Robotics
automationmagazine.co.uk
Automation | February 2023
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