ABB Robotics推出了第三代Pickmaster®，这是其用于视觉引导的随机流量采摘和包装应用程序的机器人软件，适用于未来的数字工厂。该公司称，新的Pickmaster Twin软件首次配备了数字双技术，可将调试时间从几天到数小时缩短，并将转换期限从小时到几分钟。
Digital twin technology allows customers to test out robotic configurations on virtual production lines before physical lines are built. When using digital twin technology, the simulated twin can be directly connected to production operations, which allows the picking process to be optimized virtually at the same time as the process is being implemented. For customers, PickMaster Twin now offers more flexibility and visualization of all complicated robotic maneuvers designed for flow-wrapping, tray-loading, case and carton packing, and handling applications.
启用选择和包装任务的离线编程意味着用户可以在虚拟环境中创建，模拟和测试完整的机器人安装，而无需打扰其实际生产线。这不仅可以帮助客户减轻昂贵和耗时的风险，而且还可以缩短新产品的营销时间，因为可以更快地安装产品线。
PickMaster Twin also condenses and enhances the advanced application experience with new intuitive interfaces built on ABB’s AbilityTM Zenon Operations Data Management, providing vibrant and colorful dashboards for easy data visualization. In addition, PickMaster Twin complies with the OMAC PackML (packaging machine language) standard, which makes it ideal for modern packaging machines. The latest PickMaster software also features online visual tuning of the workspace in both X and Y directions in order to maximize output and increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Pickmaster Twin具有多种配置，可以与所有ABB机器人以及一系列虚拟和物理机器无缝地工作。加上用户友好的软件，Pickmaster Twin最适合工厂和生产线，在这些工厂和生产线上，更高的输出，更快的响应时间和快速转换至关重要。
“These upgrades to ABB’s PickMaster technology will help our customers take high-speed picking and rapid applications to the next level, whether it’s to boost picking and packing efficiency or to reduce the cost of integrating robotics into production lines,” says Steven Wyatt, Head of Portfolio and Digital for ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation business.
ABB展位访问者扫描托盘上的重新配置框，配备ABB Vison的IRB 460托盘机器人将识别新模式，并开始将随机配置进行除外。带有病态安全扫描仪的公司的SSAFEMOVE2使访客可以通过放慢速度，然后在机器人接近时停止与机器人合作。该演示强调了与ABB的3D视觉系统集成的ABB机器人托盘和去货运系统的灵活性和模块化。
除了这项新技术外，ABB Robotics和ABB子公司B＆R工业自动化将共享相邻的摊位，从而将解决方案汇总为灵活，高性能包装自动化。ABB Pack Expo 2019展览的亮点包括IRB 360 FlexPicker® with B&R ACOPOStrak Intelligent Track Technology. The industry-leading, pick-and-place Delta robot seamlessly integrated with the highly flexible B&R track system quickly routes products from processing station to processing station on independently-controlled shuttles. The system adapts to the variables of the product being packaged, rather than the product conforming to a rigidly sequential process. This allows “on-the-fly” changeovers that make cost-effective, mass customization down to batch size one a practical reality.
ABB also displayed its ABB Ability™ Connected Services—统一的跨行业数字产品从设备到边缘延伸到云。所有ABB机器人都可以随时连接到无线或硬接线的ABB能力连接服务。
ABB还向北部大厅机器人区的“出于目的：机器人打击饥饿”区域提供了双臂Yumi®合作机器人和IRB 1200机器人。这些机器人在整个节目中都为背包带来了背包，为在拉斯维加斯和美国其他地方面临粮食不安全的儿童面临食物。
