Studie: Wie Hersteller „Do-it-yourself“-Automatisierung für ihre  Produktion nutzen 

Das kanadische Technologieunternehmen  Vention hat ausgewertet, wie Hersteller den „Do-it-yourself“-Ansatz (DIY) nutzen, um  ihre Produktion zu automatisieren. Die Studie basiert auf anonymisierten Daten von  weltweit über 4.000 B2B-Nutzern der Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP) von  Vention. 

Unter „DIY-Automatisierung“ versteht man den Prozess des selbständigen Entwerfens und  Implementierens industrieller Automatisierungssysteme unter Verwendung von Plug-and Play-Hardware- und Softwarekomponenten. Ein Beispiel ist die Vention Cloud-Plattform MAP, mit deren Hilfe produzierende Unternehmen alle Komponenten selbst konfigurieren,  bestellen und implementieren können, die sie zur Automatisierung ihrer Produktion  benötigen. Ähnlich wie bei Amazon oder IKEA erfolgen Auswahl und Bestellung über den  Webbrowser. Die Komponenten werden kurzfristig geliefert und können nach dem DIY Prinzip in Betrieb genommen werden. Anwender wählen zwischen Automatisierungs komponenten verschiedener Roboterhersteller wie Fanuc, Universal Robots oder Doosan aus. Darüber hinaus bietet Vention ein eigenes Hardware-Kit an. 

Für die Studie „The State of DIY Industrial Automation“ hat Vention das Nutzerverhalten  seiner Firmenkunden auf der Vention Cloud-Plattform von Januar bis Dezember 2022 ausgewertet. Ziel war es zu sehen, wie Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größe den DIY Ansatz für ihre Automatisierung nutzen. „Wir haben die Daten zusammengestellt, um zu  zeigen, dass DIY-Automatisierung möglich ist. Der Bericht dient als strategischer Leitfaden  für alle Hersteller, die eine neue Art der Automatisierung einführen möchten“, sagt Etienne  Lacroix, CEO Vention. 

Das sind die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse der Studie:  

1. Kleine Unternehmen setzen verstärkt auf DIY-Automatisierung. 

Kleinere Hersteller mit bis zu 200 Mitarbeitern setzen auf DIY-Industrieautomation. Sie  machen 60 % der Unternehmen aus, die automatisierte Ausrüstung über MAP bestellen.

2. Kleine und mittlere Hersteller übernehmen die Führung beim Selbstdesign. 

Mittlere und kleine Hersteller verzeichnen auf der Plattform die höchsten Anteile an  Selbstdesign. Unter „Selbstdesign“ versteht man Benutzer, die selbstständig auf der  Plattform entwerfen, ohne die Designhilfe der Automatisierungsexperten von Vention in  Anspruch zu nehmen.  

3. Große Hersteller mit über 10.000 Mitarbeitern finden in ihrer Produktion mehr  Anwendungsfälle für die Automatisierung. 

Große Hersteller, die MAP nutzen, tun dies deutlich häufiger als kleinere Unternehmen. Dies  zeigt, dass selbst Hersteller mit hohem Durchsatz erhebliche Vorteile aus dem DIY-Ansatz ziehen können, nachdem sie sich für die Einführung der Vention Cloud-Plattform entschieden haben. 

4. Hohe Nachfrage nach der Erstellung von Roboterzellen mit DIY-Automatisierung. 

Hersteller, die MAP nutzen, neigen dazu, drei Gerätekategorien zu erstellen: Struktur-,  Automatisierungs- und Roboterzellen, wobei in jeder Kategorie zahlreiche Anwendungen zu  finden sind. Unter den Top-Roboteranwendungen erweisen sich Maschinenbedienzellen als die am häufigsten eingesetzten Zellen, die knapp 50 % aller Roboterzellenprojekte  ausmachen, gefolgt vom Cobot-Palettierer und der kundenspezifischen Roboterzelle.

5. KMU neigen dazu, interne Ressourcen aufzubauen und zu stärken. 

Insbesondere kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) nutzen ihre internen Ressourcen, um  interne Automatisierungsteams aufzubauen. Diese Teams sind darauf ausgelegt, die  Roadmap für die industrielle Automatisierung in allen Fertigungsanlagen voranzutreiben und  Fachwissen in den Bereichen mechanisches Design, industrielle Steuerung und Robotik  zusammenzufassen. Anstatt sich auf externe Ingenieurdienstleister zu verlassen, nutzen  diese Teams DIY-Technologien, um tiefgreifendes Prozesswissen zu entwickeln und selbst  entworfene automatisierte Lösungen bereitzustellen. 

Die vollständige Studie in Englisch finden Sie hier. 

Über Vention  

Vention hilft Unternehmen, ihre Produktionsbereiche durch eine demokratisierte Benutzererfahrung in nur  wenigen Tagen zu automatisieren. Mit der digitalen Fertigungsautomatisierungsplattform von Vention können  Kunden automatisierte Geräte direkt über ihren Webbrowser entwerfen, automatisieren, bestellen und  bereitstellen. Vention hat seinen Hauptsitz in Montreal, Kanada, und Niederlassungen in Berlin und Boston. Die  über 300 Mitarbeiter betreuen mehr als 4.000 Kunden auf fünf Kontinenten und in 25 Fertigungsindustrien. Für weitere Informationen besuchen Sie www.vention.io

Geek Club and CircuitMess Launch a NASA-inspired DIY Perseverance Educational Space Rover Kit

After a series of successful Kickstarter Campaigns, Geek Club and CircuitMess launch their most ambitious project yet – a NASA-approved AI-powered scale model Replica of the Perseverance Space Rover  

Zagreb, Croatia – October 31st, 2023. – Today, Geek Club and CircuitMess announced their Kickstarter space exploration campaign designed to teach children eleven and up about engineering, AI, and coding by assembling the iconic NASA Perseverance Space Rover, as well as a series of other NASA-inspired space vehicles.

This new space-themed line of DIY educational products was born out of both companies‘ shared vision to aim for the stars and to take their fans with them. The Kickstarter campaign starts today, October 31st, and will last for 35 days.

The collaboration was a logical union of the two companies. Both companies create educational STEM DIY kits that are targeted towards kids and adults. Both share the same mission: To make learning STEM skills easy and fun.

“For decades, the team and I have been crafting gadgets for geeks always inspired by space exploration,” says Nicolas Deladerrière, co-founder of Geek Club. “Inspired by Mars exploration, we’ve studied thousands of official documents and blueprints to craft an authentic Mars exploration experience. The product comes alive thanks to microchips, electromotors, and artificial intelligence. Imagine simulating your own Mars mission right from your desk!”

Geek Club is an American company that specializes in designing and producing DIY robotics kits that educate their users on soldering and electronics. They focus primarily on space exploration and robotics, all to make learning engineering skills easy and fun for kids, adults, and everyone in between.

“We have successfully delivered seven Kickstarter campaigns, raised more than 2.5 million dollars, and made hundreds of thousands of geeks all around the world extremely happy,” says Albert Gajšak, CEO of CircuitMess. “In a universe where space and technology are constantly growing, we’re here to ensure you’re never left behind.”

The new product line consists of five unique space-themed products:

  • 1. The Perseverance Space Rover Kit

This kit is designed to be an educational journey into programming, electronics, robotics, and AI. The model comes with four electromotors, six wheels, a control system with a dual-core Espressif ESP32 processor, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connectivity, a sample collection arm based on the real thing with two servo motors, a Wi-Fi-connected remote controller, and support for programming in Python or via a Scratch-inspired drag-and-drop visual coding environment.

Alongside the Perseverance Space Rover, you’ll be able to get more iconic space vehicles:

  • 2. The Voyager: A DIY kit made as a tribute to NASA’s longest-lasting mission, which has been beaming back data for an incredible 45 years and counting.
  • 3. Juno: A solar-powered DIY kit celebrating the mission that gave us the most detailed and breathtaking images of Jupiter.
  • 4. Discovery: A DIY kit honoring the legendary space shuttle with 39 successful orbital flights under its belt.
  • 5. The Artemis Watch: A sleek, space-themed wrist gadget inspired by NASA’s upcoming Artemis space suit design. The watch is a programmable device equipped with an LCD display, Bluetooth, and a gyroscope.

The Perseverance Educational Space Rover Kit is available for pre-order now on Kickstarter, starting at $149.

No previous experience or knowledge is needed for assembling your very own space rover. The kit is designed for anyone aged 11+  and comes with detailed video instructions.

You can visit the Kickstarter page here.

EIT DIY Boxing Robot – Build your own Boxer Robot

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Make Munich – The Maker and Do-It-Yourself Festival

Make Munich is Southern Germany’s largest maker and do it yourself festival, which will take place for the fifth time in Munich next March. It has been firmly established in Munich since 2013 and will even be expanded by a second exhibition hall in 2019.

On 2nd/3rd March 2019, the makers will present their creative ideas, inventions, projects, technologies and their open, colourful culture of innovation. At the exhibition booths and in many inspiring lectures, the Maker scene will be experienced in its entire variety. But it’s not just about spectating, it’s also about doing it yourself and experimenting: In numerous hands-on workshops „new makers“ are taught all the skills they need to be creative and inventive and to produce their own things using modern technologies. The Munich Maker Festival is a colourful public event for all ages. You can touch and try out high-tech here. The mega topic of digitisation can be experienced by everyone in a comprehensible and creative way.

The diverse topics at Make Munich include electronics, Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, digital tools, robotics and fashion technology. Maker start-ups show the way to professionalisation. FabLabs and Makerspaces present their ideas and creative communities. Also projects and initiatives from the circular economy, repair culture, bio-hacking and design & craft present themselves to the public. A completely new feature is a separate large area for the „Young Maker“ young talents.

In addition to 180 exhibitors, more than 10,000 visitors from Germany and the neighbouring countries Italy, Switzerland and Austria are expected.

Our long-standing partner and main sponsor, Allnet GmbH, will be networking the maker scene with established medium-sized companies from its surroundings in a dedicated area in the new „Kohlenbunker“ hall on the Saturday of the fair. As the new main sponsor, Siemens AG is also on board to promote the maker culture and innovations across society. As a close educational cooperation partner, Munich University of Applied Sciences will present many exciting university maker projects. Other colleges and universities will also present their FabLab initiatives and ideas.

Make Munich short info: What: South Germany’s largest Maker and Do It Yourself Festival When. When? Sat/Sun 2nd/3rd March 2019 Open: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Where: Zenith hall + Kohlenbunker hall, Lilienthallee 29, 80939 Munich, Germany Entrance fees: Children up to 10 years free of charge, teenagers 8 €, adults 15€, families 30 €

http://www.make-munich.de


Electrocuting Robot by Ethan David

Ethan David just messaged me and sent me a video:

“ I made the robot using an arduino, a servo motor, and cardboard boxes. Most of the heavy lifting is taken care of in python doing the fast fourier transform on the sound detected by the microphone to find the frequency being played. This allows me to compare the frequency to the known frequency of the musical scale. It then becomes trivial to just program in the correct sequence of notes for the song and see if what I play matches it. „

Rokit Smart: Build and Program Robots the Easy Way

On May 14, 2015, Robolink, Inc is launching a campaign on Kickstarter for Rokit
Smart, an innovative and affordable robot kit that teaches kids how to program and
build robots in as little as one hour. With Rokit Smart, kids as young as 8 years old
can program these robots to autonomously follow a track, be controlled by remote
and many other exciting tasks. Rokit Smart includes instructions to build twelve
different robots, but the only limit to what kids can build with this kit is their
imagination. Until now, there has never been a robotics kit with so many potential
options for such a low price point. Rokit Smart will bring the excitement of robotics
to kids who never before considered the idea that they could build and program
their own robot.

Thousands of elementary school students across Southern California have tested
prototypes for Rokit Smart and they have all been amazed at how easy it is to build
and program their own robot. “When I see how much fun kids are having as the
robot they just built dribbles a ball or navigates a maze, it always brings a huge
smile to my face,” says Hansol Hong, Robolink’s CEO. Discovering how the
motors, sensors, linkages and software of a robot interact with each other has
proven to be a fantastic way of introducing young students to science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM education.

After building and programming the out-of-the-box robots, kids will be able to apply
what they learned and make their own robot. Rokit Smart is compatible with
Arduino, a programming language designed for robots that they can download for
free. “Learning to program our robots is a perfect stepping stone into languages like
C and C++. That’s going to be an incredibly valuable skill as these kids get older,”
says Hong.

The Kickstarter campaign for Rokit Smart has a goal of $50,000 by June 16th. The
money will pay for the manufacturing of the first run of Rokit Smarts. The first 100
backers will have the opportunity to secure a Rokit Smart for $99, a savings of 32%
off of the retail price.

For more information, visit the Kickstarter page here.

The Robolink community has already posted some very helpful resources for robot
builders at robolink.com/community.