Kick-off for digital offensive: KUKA shows seamless digitalization of global industrial landscapes
The starting signal for KUKA's digital offensive: Following the establishment of the new digital division, KUKA presented its comprehensive portfolio at its first software and digital event under the motto ‘KUKA digital_powering your business’ at its headquarters in Augsburg. The long-established company, known for its industrial robots, is increasingly focusing on the consistent and seamless digitalisation of global industrial landscapes. The highlight of the event: mosaixx, the open, collaborative cloud platform for industrial software-as-a-service.
8 November 2024
KUKA's Development and Technology Centre was transformed into a discussion platform for software, digitalization and artificial intelligence. In workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches, customers and partners from the global mechanical and plant engineering sector, the automotive industry and representatives of major software companies discussed current challenges in the economy and solutions for driving end-to-end digitalization in industry.
In an expo area, KUKA provided exclusive insights into its software and digital offering with products and solutions for the digitalization of the entire lifecycle of a production: from the first layout idea of a factory in a planning software, hosted on the cloud platform ‘mosaixx’, to the simulation and offline-programming of the factory with Visual Components, the simulation and programming of the integrated robots with KUKA.Sim and the AI-based Microsoft KRL Copilot, through to the subsequent networking of the robots with KUKA.iiQoT and the expertise of Device Insight in shopfloor digitalization and data analysis in the sense of a data-driven factory.
The new KUKA Digital segment, with its hardware-independent software and digital offering from mosaixx, Visual Components and Device Insight, was the focus of the event. The new division's offering is based on KUKA's robotics and plant engineering expertise and promotes seamless digitalization.
From hightech to standard: the changing face of mechanical engineering
Industrial robotics and automation solutions are becoming increasingly important and are being used in more and more markets worldwide. At the same time, software is playing an ever more decisive role. What used to be solved mechanically is now being taken over by electronics and the associated software.
Dassault Systèmes is looking forward to the planned partnership with KUKA Digital. The goal of our Cloud to Cloud strategy is to embed the 3DEXPERIENCE platform into the new collaborative cloud platform mosaixx. This will give automation companies quick access to our advanced design and virtual twin technology. Through the collaboration, small and medium-sized companies, in particular, will be supported in their efforts to succeed in the global automation market.
Autodesk is an excellent collaborator to offer industrial engineering businesses a customized solution that enables a new, more efficient form of collaboration, integrating all the advantages of the cloud into customers' processes. Mosaixx also fits perfectly with our open platform strategy, and we are looking forward to a long-lasting relationship and mutual market success.
Digitalization and software made in Bavaria are of existential importance for our future economic strength. As a country with high energy prices and wages, we urgently need digital movers and shakers and a strong Bavarian tech sector to carry our prosperity into the future through innovative new markets. With its new digital focus, KUKA is setting the right course for the AI age, to shape digitalization and artificial intelligence on a global scale from Augsburg.
We have to fight against tentative stand-alone solutions in the factory halls. Industrial digitalization will only really work if it is thought through consistently, from the initial idea to the finished plant. This will open up enormous opportunities for industry, especially in challenging times. That is why we are driving our software and digital business forward independently of hardware. We are proud of our hardware, our robots. Now is the time to be proud of our software.
mosaixx: This is the open, collaborative cloud platform from KUKA Digital
Planning, implementing and later operating a production facility is a complex process. With regard to the associated software, this currently often means that billing models are inflexible, the required software products are not cloud-compatible and thus tied to local computers, making collaboration on projects impossible. This is where mosaixx comes in. Tailored to the needs of special machine manufacturing, mosaixx uses a combination of software tools, data management, cloud computing and process understanding to provide the basis for seamless digital production.
System integrators and other engineering customers get access to a wide range of software solutions for ECAD and MCAD programs, simulation, offline programming and virtual commissioning. This enables engineers to efficiently structure their workflows within a project in a shared and location-independent work environment with processes, workflows and cloud storage, link them securely and bill them as needed. mosaixx is initially aimed at small and medium-sized companies in the DACH region and in Europe. Expansion to North America is planned for early 2025.
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