In an industrial sector that little by little tends to reorganize itself with agile means, robotics 4.0 allows solving a great challenge for manufacturers: the fragmentation of their production into microseries and the move to mass customization. A pioneer in this new market segment, the French company VLM Robotics specifies its value proposition: “Instead of having a completely atomized industry with a chain of suppliers each in their specialty, we can now relocate, around a single agile machine, all the value-added stages of the part” explains Philippe Verlet, director of VLM Robotics “For this, the robot is very useful to us because it is capable of changing its tools and bringing various jobs around the piece, which does not move”.
Reduced flow and short circuit, thanks to digital continuity
The underlying trend in today’s industry is to be able to manage the complexity of a single product using robotic and multifunction cells. This is precisely what VLM Robotics allows, whose technology enables mass customization. The idea is simply to have control of the digital continuity around the machine. This is of course based on CAD, process simulation and CAD/CAM software, but also digital control and on-board instrumentation. These new machines are manufactured to measure and according to the needs of the client. “However, we approach the specificity from machine standards that are our own (Compaqt, Gemini, etc.)” further specifies Philippe Verlet.
Through these new solutions, manufacturers can also process demand with short lead times and very little flow. Therefore, they can be part of a more coherent CSR approach.
Thanks to this unique know-how in Europe and its mastery of advanced robotics, VLM Robotics is positioned as a major player in this new market segment of industrial robotics. The company is, in particular, the innovation partner of Siemens in France. It is also accelerated by Bpifrance as part of the ‘BPI Accelerator Solution Industry of the Future’ programme.
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Source: BFM TV
