CimStation Robotics E-Hub offers manufacturing engineers:

Increased Programming Productivity
Create, modify, debut and execute your programs in easy-to-use, point-and-click menus without worry of damaging hardware equipment. And by selecting features on CAD parts, you can quickly generate hundreds of robot via points - a much more efficient method than manually teaching.

Free your Robots for Production
Instead of taking your robots out of production to program them, you can do it all off-line in a 3D virtual factory. Just select from a library of over 150 kinematically accurate models of commercial robots to program and translate the finished program to the appropriate native robot language.

Reduce Risk by Verifying Feasibility
Perform reachability studies and identify collisions during program execution to determine whether a process is feasible before any capital equipment is deployed. Realistic dynamic behaviour such as error in path following, overshoot and damping are also simulated.

Visualise and Optimise the Workcell
Quickly build and layout the robotic workcell by using tools to create kinematic devices, as well as common workcell components such as grippers, conveyors and rotary tables. Robots can then be automatically placed in a location which minimizes cycle time.

Accurately Determine Cycle Times
Accurate forward and inverse kinematics of each virtual robot is automatically calculated according to manufacturer specifications. The Realistic Robot Simulation (RRS) interface industry standard is also supported, which typically increases cycle time and kinematic accuracy to within 1-3%.

Application Solutions
Application Solutions tailored to the requirements of a particular robotic task provide advanced functionality and ease of use for Painting, Spot Welding, Polishing, Assembly and Press Operations.

Key Features Include:

• 3D layout of robots, end effectors, fixtures, AGVs and part positioners.
• Paint, Spot, Polish, Assembly and Press Application Solutions.
• Fast, realistic simulation of robotic workcells.
• Direct CAD interfaces.
• Robot calibration and verification.
• Workcell calibration.
• Workcell and program optimisation routines
• Automatic collision detection.
• Automatic generation of robot kinematics.
• Extensive library of commercial robot models and post-processors.
• Simulation of robot dynamics.
• Object-oriented open architecture programming environment.