{"id":30195,"date":"2019-07-10T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.sinapps.info\/en\/new-network-remote-io-esaware-discover-all-features-3-2-2-2-3\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:04:10","slug":"new-network-remote-io-esaware-discover-all-features-3-2-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.sinapps.info\/en\/the-role-of-cobots-in-industry-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Cobots in Industry 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11314&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; el_class=&#8221;img-blog&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]What is the role of <strong>collaborative robots<\/strong>, or cobots, in Industry 4.0? In Smart Factory and IoT era, this new technology finds its perfect location. In fact, market researches foresee a significant increase in the sale of cobots over the next few years.<br \/>\nOn this regards, recently ESA presented a <strong>solution for monitoring and controlling cobots<\/strong>. Read on to learn more.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Benefits of cobots for the industry<\/h2>\n<p>What are cobots? Collaborative robots designed to collaborate with human operators. While a traditional industrial robot is programmed to complete a specific and predefined task within a physical workspace, a cobot is conceived to <strong>interact and collaborate with humans<\/strong> within a shared workspace.<br \/>\nSuch technology is perfectly in line with the principles of Industry 4.0, contributing to intelligent production in many ways. Specially:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Interoperability and Internet of Things<\/strong>: Cobots are able to interact and work easily with other devices and systems, in any industrial environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Big Data<\/strong>: Through their ability to collect data and transmit it to other systems, they promote the flow of large volumes of transparent information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ease of usage<\/strong>: Thanks to their interactive interface (display, etc.), cobots are particularly intuitive and easy to use. They also facilitate decentralized, or horizontal, decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Productivity<\/strong>: Increasing the efficiency of processes, cobots allow to maximize the productivity of any industrial plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In light of these benefits, it\u2019s clear why cobots in Industry 4.0 are a growing trend. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ifr.org\/downloads\/press\/Executive_Summary_WR_2017_Industrial_Robots.pdf\">World Robotics Report 2017<\/a> of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) forecasted an average increase of + 15% per year, for a total of 3 million operating robots by 2020. While according to the Collaborative Robots Market report, cobots market will reach $4.28 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of 56.94%.<\/p>\n<h2>ESA solution for cobots<\/h2>\n<p>For <strong>SPS Italia 2019<\/strong>, we created an application to monitor and control a <strong>UR series cobot<\/strong>, which displays the position of the robot on the three X, Y, Z axes in terms of absolute coordinates, relative angular coordinates and moving speed.<br \/>\nIn this solution, the ESA HMI (or industrial PC) communicates with the control of the collaborative robot via <strong>Modbus TCP protocol<\/strong>, available in our <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.sinapps.info\/it\/prodotti\/crew\/\"><strong>SCADA Crew software<\/strong><\/a>. Both the address space of the registers and the supported Modbus function codes enable to access to all data and to the status and command registers available on the control.<br \/>\nFinally, we added command buttons to start\/stop the robot and to put it in \u201cservice\u201d mode. This mode is particularly useful for the manual control of the piece that comes to the operator with non-torque motors. In this way, the operator can move the piece freely, control it and then restore the start of the automatic cycle.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/esa.sinapps.info\/it\/lindustria-4-0-e-i-prodotti-di-esa-automation\/\">Discover all ESA solutions for Industry 4.0<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the role of\u00a0<strong>collaborative robots<\/strong>, or cobots, in Industry 4.0? 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