Innovation Strategy for Industry 4.0

Agenda

• Direction of our Innovation Strategy

• Introduction of Digitalization Technologies

• Flexible Automation applications

Introduction

CTO of ruhlamat Automation Technologies – GM of ruhlamat Smart Technologies

German Group founded in 1991 with over 1000 employees and 100 million euro company performance

High-Tech Customized Automation Machine Builder with over 200 development engineers in China

In China with over 600 employees and over 600 million RMB company performance founded in 1998

Exciting Times

Technologies have been changing

Competitors have been changing

Customers have been changing

ruhlamat Innovation Program

Challenges for automation equipment:

Very volatile quantity

High product variety

Shorter lead time

High cost pressure

ruhlamat to be an Early Adopter of new Technologies…

Innovation Program

of ruhlamat China

…and be a Provider of new Technologies…

…to help our customers to reduce TCO!

Disruptive Industry 4.0 Technologies

Artificial Intelligence Decentralization

Core of ruhlamat Innovation Program

Two important long-term trends:

ruhlamat China Directions

ruhlamat China

Innovation Program

Make Automation

Flexible

Leverage

Digitization

R&D Partnership

ruhlamat Smart Technologies Co., Ltd.

• Bring Smart Manufacturing to Companies in China

• Bring Artificial Intelligence to ruhlamat machines

• Develop related new Technologies and Capabilities

35+ Smart Customers

1,600+ Smart Machines

…

ShopWorx — Success Story

1st Customer in China

Data Science, AI, ML Consulting & Projects

IT Integration & Solutions

Technology to Capture Big Data

Digitalization Offerings

Digitize Analyze Transform

Digitalization Solutions

ShopWorx Solutions

Take the guesswork out of shop floor management!

Make Automation Systems flexible

Machine Vision

Machine Vision plays a key role to make automation more flexible

Unleashing full potential when combined with ML

New Vision R&D department

• to replace traditional sensors

• as eye of robots

• for adaptive feeding systems…

3D Bin Picking - Machine Vision Solution

Bin Picking Solution - Testing system

replace bowl feeders to be able to adapt to new part variants flexibly

POC 3D Bin Picking

Tests done with dummy and customer parts

Reliable P&P proven for most parts

Flexible automation Concept

Addressing:

• volatile quantity

• product variety

• TCO

• lead time

3D Bin Picking

Flexible Assembly Line

Flexible automation Concept

Standardized Cell Modular Feeding Feeding

Module

Bowl Feeder 3D Bin Picking Tray Feeding

Modular Transfer

Conveyor AGV AGV/Transfer

Process

Module

Transfer

Module

Machine Learning

Prediction Training

API

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Features:

• Predictive Maintenance

• Predictive Quality

• Configurable

Dashboards

• ML Implementation

Principle

Solution Architecture – Edge

MES system

ShopWorx Edge

Station PLC / HMI

Line Server / HMI

data

Streaming Analytics ML Solution via ShopWorx Edge Device

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