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ABB ROBOTICS CANADA E-NEWSLETTER | AUGUST 2022
RobotStudio® – program more possibilities and unlock new opportunities
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August 2022
Greetings from the ABB Robotics Canada team! Welcome to the August newsletter. Our focus this month is to enable you to discover more possibilities and unlock new opportunities with ABB’s simulation and offline programming software, RobotStudio®. Simulate solutions, optimize production, and reduce risk for your operations. Try RobotStudio® for free today, connect with us, our community of users, and online on-demand support materials and videos.
Stayed tuned and keep the conversation with us alive so that together we can continue to write the future of flexible manufacturing and smart machines.
Stayed tuned and keep the conversation with us alive so that together we can continue to write the future of flexible manufacturing and smart machines.
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Our Goal
Welcome to the ABB Robotics Canada E-Newsletter. Our goal is to best keep you informed about key innovations that may enable your business decisions for increased productivity, profit, and sustainability.
This is the place where you will find news about product and service updates, live events, webinars, the latest innovations, and so much more.
Let's stay connected. Our team will distribute to you a monthly edition. Subscribe today!
This is the place where you will find news about product and service updates, live events, webinars, the latest innovations, and so much more.
Let's stay connected. Our team will distribute to you a monthly edition. Subscribe today!
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Special Announcement
Nick McDonald - 30 Years, 3 Decades of Dedication
ABB Robotics Canada is honored to celebrate Nick McDonald and his commendable 30-year milestone with ABB!
Nick has been transforming robotic automation since starting in 1992 as a Senior Service Technologist. In his current role, Welding and Cutting Business Line Manager, Nick continues to be a key pillar in writing the future of flexible manufacturing, and smart machines – leading a team of welding specialists through the evolutions of welding automation technology.
Cheers to Nick! Thank you sparking innovation, leadership, and laughter in the team. ABB and Robotics Canada is lucky to have you.
Nick has been transforming robotic automation since starting in 1992 as a Senior Service Technologist. In his current role, Welding and Cutting Business Line Manager, Nick continues to be a key pillar in writing the future of flexible manufacturing, and smart machines – leading a team of welding specialists through the evolutions of welding automation technology.
Cheers to Nick! Thank you sparking innovation, leadership, and laughter in the team. ABB and Robotics Canada is lucky to have you.
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RobotStudio® The world's most used offline programming tool for robotics
Offline programming is the best way to maximize return on investment for robot systems. ABB's simulation and offline programming software, RobotStudio®, allows robot programming to be done on a PC in the office without shutting down production, this allows you to perform tasks such as training, programming, and optimization without disturbing the production.
View the main features below and discover how RobotStudio® allows realistic simulations to be performed, using real robot programs and configuration files identical to those used on the shop floor.
View the main features below and discover how RobotStudio® allows realistic simulations to be performed, using real robot programs and configuration files identical to those used on the shop floor.
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Virtual Commissioning
Speed up commissioning by simulating an exact replica of the production cell so that all technical, logic, and safety challenges can be solved in advance prior to installing a physical line.
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Digital Twin
Without disturbing ongoing production, monitor, test changes, and optimize your automation solution with a real-time simulation of the production system.
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Augmented Reality
Visualize robot solutions by overlaying the modelled solution over the real-life production environment as a hologram.
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Virtual Meetings
Leverage virtual reality for making design reviews and sales proposals without travelling – share digital robot solutions for a more immersive web meeting experience.
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Value Providers
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2022 Value Provider Awards Season
Each year we celebrate our partner network and recognize the outstanding achievements of our ABB Value Providers in our Value Provider Awards. This year we're changing things up and inviting you to nominate system integrators, partners, Value Providers, users of ABB robotic solutions, and or even your own company. You have until August 20 2022. Winners will be announced in December. Good luck to all nominees.
Below you find four categorizes for which you can submit a nomination. To see last year's award winners, visit the Value Provider Hall of Fame. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
Below you find four categorizes for which you can submit a nomination. To see last year's award winners, visit the Value Provider Hall of Fame. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
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Most Innovative Solution
The Most Innovative Solution Award is targeted at projects that are novel, high impact, and show remarkable creativity or resourcefulness.
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Outstanding Performance
The Outstanding Performance Award honors the companies that can demonstrate clear growth in number of robots and turnover.
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Lifetime Achievement
The Lifetime Achievement Awards honor long-lasting business relationships going above and beyond a decade or more.
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Sustainability
The ABB Robotics Partner Sustainability Award honors the best minds and the most effective concepts that help us move sustainably.
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Product Highlights
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IRB 365 FlexPicker® Delta Robot
Flexibility for fast orientation of lightweight goods
ABB’s new FlexPicker® IRB 365 picking robot is the fastest-in-class for lightweight product picking, packing and re-orientation applications up to 1.5kg. From shelf-ready packaging to parcel sorting and bottle handling, the IRB 365 has flexibility for a range of applications.
Commissioning time is also reduced from days to hours with ABB PickMaster® Twin software.
Commissioning time is also reduced from days to hours with ABB PickMaster® Twin software.
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Service Highlights
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Cable simulation with RobotStudio®
We know that designing robot cables and dress packs can be challenging. With it comes the challenge that the cables connected to the robots undergo extensive wear and tear and that they can also cause a high level of collision risks.
RobotStudio offers cable simulation, enabling you to visualize the movement of the robot and the cables before implementation. This enables you to:
RobotStudio offers cable simulation, enabling you to visualize the movement of the robot and the cables before implementation. This enables you to:
- Reduce collision risks
- Increase the life of your robots’ cable
- Plan all the relevant details for optimal performance on your factory floor
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ABB Canada
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Orora Fresh Packaging Solutions: improves efficiency and cuts injury risk with ABB robot cell
Less than an hour away from the Detroit-Windsor border in Canada lies Orora Fresh, a global packaging company who provides plastic and corrugated cardboard packaging solutions around the world. The combination of a need to boost productivity, hiring challenges, and the desire to boost the quality of work for existing employees, inspired Windsor-based integrator AIS Technologies to come up with a system that enables Orora Fresh to achieve these goals.
The system deploys 2 IRB 4600 robots, filling the job of stacking the boxes up to the max height allowed in transport vehicles thus avoiding repetitive strain injuries and saving employees from having to reach overhead. The system also boosts efficiency and quality. By automatically detecting and removing defects from the line, Orora Fresh is able to ensure its product meets their quality standards for each and every pallet. ABB and AIS Technology Group are proud to have partnered on numerous solutions over the years to help manufacturers and producers maximize production, especially in the face of changing labour and economic market conditions.
The system deploys 2 IRB 4600 robots, filling the job of stacking the boxes up to the max height allowed in transport vehicles thus avoiding repetitive strain injuries and saving employees from having to reach overhead. The system also boosts efficiency and quality. By automatically detecting and removing defects from the line, Orora Fresh is able to ensure its product meets their quality standards for each and every pallet. ABB and AIS Technology Group are proud to have partnered on numerous solutions over the years to help manufacturers and producers maximize production, especially in the face of changing labour and economic market conditions.
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ABB Global
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ABB Review
ABB recently released the 3/2022 edition of ABB Review, the company’s technical journal. The lead topic for this quarter is “better decisions,” examining the decision making benefits of digital solutions throughout the enterprise, from the boardroom to the plant floor. As decision makers need to understand and analyze data quickly and accurately, ABB provides a broad variety of technical solutions to support them.
"ABB’s RobotStudio, the world’s most-used simulation and offline programming tool for robotics is such a solution. The RobotStudio AR Viewer app is an augmented reality (AR) application for mobile devices that visualizes, in the real environment, the industrial robots configured beforehand in RobotStudio. The AR features enable precise positioning of a robot on the shop floor, which contributes to a better understanding of how it will fit into the space, helping to speed the planning of manufacturing processes."
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