Flexxbotics Adds Powerful Capabilities for Multi-Machine Robotic Automation
Flexxbotics has announced the latest release of FlexxCORE, the patent-pending technology at the center of the Flexxbotics solution. The new release delivers even more powerful capabilities for advanced robotic machine tending, robotic quality control, and robotic production lines by enabling robots, both industrial and collaborative, to run multiple machines with multiple operations for multiple part SKUs. These new FlexxCORE capabilities equip manufacturers to scale robotic production across the smart factory in a standardized way for greater plant capacity, quality, and EBITDA margins.
FlexxCORE now includes enhanced robot awareness, parallelized data pipelines, and greater data granularity which further extends the interoperable communication and coordination between robots, factory machines, inspection equipment, and other plant machinery.
Enhanced Robot Awareness: Empowers robots in advanced tending scenarios to interpret each machines’ jobs, processing routines, operational status, and more
Parallelized Data Pipelines: Leverages asynchronous, parallel pipelines for hyperperformant real time robot+multi-machine orchestration
Greater Data Granularity: – Expanded data model and event data capture for robotic operational context, pattern recognition, and machine learning
“FlexxCORE’s fully RESTful application programming interface (API) now has an expanded data model to enable dynamic definition of the production robotic environment,” explains Tyler Modelski, Co-founder & CTO of Flexxbotics. “This means the robots not only understand each machine’s capabilities, operating characteristics, and part processing status, the robots can direct the machines to execute work and know how to correct problems if they occur.”
FlexxCORE is a low-code environment for composing and running ‘Transformers’ – powerful translation driver connectors – which includes a secure, high performance run-time framework with data pipelines, protocols, class structures, method sets, and data models for development. Transformers enable bi-directional read/write between robots and all types of factory equipment for many-to-many interoperability. FlexxCORE delivers compatibility with over 1000 different makes and models of robots, machines, other factory machinery and inspection equipment options, and enables 22x faster connector creation than conventional automation integration methods.
Until now, scaling out advanced robotic machine tending across the smart factory has involved endless custom programming and risk. Failed initiatives occur because the robots have limited or no connection to plant equipment and business systems because of interfacing complexity and incompatibilities. Previously, implementation attempts lacked process integration, were difficult and costly to maintain, and have not been factory-of-the-future ready for the inevitable introduction of AI workflows.
With the power of the new FlexxCORE technology at the center of the Flexxbotics solution, for the first time global companies can roll out production robotics across the smart factory in a standardized way for advanced robotic machine tending.
For more information: www.flexxbotics.com
