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OnRobot launches D:PLOY software platform for robotic deployment

OnRobot's CEO, Enrico Krog Iversen, demonstrated the company's new D:PLOY software platform at IMTS 2022.

 

 

Attendees at the IMTS trade show in Chicago earlier this month got a sneak peek of OnRobot's latest product called D:PLOY -- the industry's first automated, application-centered software platform for robotic deployment. The new system boasts an 80% reduction in deployment time for jobs such as machine tending, with the entire application -- including any leading cobot or light industrial robot arm along with tooling, sensors, and other devices -- accessed and managed from D:PLOY's dashboard.

D:PLOY is considered a turning point in OnRobot's strategic evolution that began with its line of intuitive robotic tools and software, expanding the concept of collaborative automation.

"The dramatic 80% reduction in deployment time is just one powerful illustration of what D:PLOY offers," said Kristian Hulgard, general manager of OnRobot's Americas division. "Now, system integrators can take on more projects with existing resources, robot manufacturers benefit from dramatically greater accessibility for their products, and end users gain powerful new abilities to implement, manage, and redeploy automation across their facilities for long-term success."

An entire application -- including any leading cobot or light industrial robot arm along with tooling, sensors, and other devices -- can be accessed and managed from OnRobot's D:PLOY dashboard.

 

 

D:PLOY was previewed in a machine tending application at OnRobot's IMTS booth using a UR5e from Universal Robots. The application demonstrated how users can simply define the robot's workspace with minimal inputs on points within the workspace, and then enter attributes of the workpiece. D:PLOY automatically generates all the program logic, signal exchange, event handling, path planning, and real-time monitoring for the full application.

OnRobot's "One-System Solution" laid the groundwork for D:PLOY by allowing any OnRobot end-of-arm tool (EOAT) to interface with any leading robot arm through a unified mechanical and electrical interface. At the OnRobot booth, visitors got to choose between a range of EOAT, simply clicking the tools on and off a FANUC CRX robot arm equipped with OnRobot's Quick Changer.

OnRobot also demonstrated its new Palletizer, which is a complete, out-of-the-box, easy-to-program collaborative palletizing system. The Palletizer is designed to take the pain out of palletizing processes through state-of-the-art hardware and software technology, which will also be launched as an application program available through the D:PLOY interface.

VIDEO:OnRobot Palletizer. [Credit: OnRobot]

To learn more about D:PLOY, fill out the OnRobot information request at onrobot.activehosted.com/f/105.

Source: OnRobot

Published September 2022

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