The CONVERGING solutions are applied in the following sectors:

Automotive Sector

• Robotization of manual applications using novel robot solutions to compete with lower wages market.
• Enablement of fast reconfiguration by exploiting the mobility and ICT interconnection of products and resources.
• Involve new young engineers, students and research institutes in the problems that the automotive sector faces and provide innovative solutions.
• Greatly improve operator working conditions who will be tasked with nonphysical demanding tasks which are designed to be intrinsically safe and pave the way to a more highly skilled and value adding work content.

White Goods

• Enhance and adjust the overall system to changes in the work cycle, reducing the time required for cobot programming, fine tuning, and commissioning.
• Use the real time data to simulate cobot behavior and to replicate activity for monitoring and control purposes.
• Increase the workers’ ergonomics (the OCRA- NIOSH index will turn from Purple to Orange and, at the same time will keep the advantage of a human workstation in terms of flexibility).
• Improve collaborative operations allowing cobot installation also in workplaces where currently this is not feasible.
• Shorten time and cost to launch a new product, since the robot will simply need to be reprogrammed.

Aeronautics

• Reduction of the time cycle of inspection as the robots will be able to work continuously.
• Productivity will be increased as fewer workers will be needed.
• Prevention of working inside hazardous areas and exposure to chemicals.

Additive Manufacturing Sector

• The use of AGVs will allow to shift time-dependent handling into data-driven based handling.
• The AI planning will ensure the distribution of effort based on the current load of the AM station.
• Data analytics and AI will enable the robot to simulate the human arm as much as possible, reach difficult points and speed up operations of surface finishing.
• The digital pipeline will propagate field data to the DT and inspection modules for process monitoring and optimization.
• Easy robot programming will enable the efficient handling of low volume and large variability.