Conceive, achieve, improve

OptiFact complements ABB’s comprehensive portfolio of leading digital solutions, enabling businesses of all sizes to visualize new digital processes and implement them on the factory floor, improving their operations by simplifying production, thereby increasing productivity and flexibility. With OptiFact, you can identify the root cause of production errors and use ABB’s cloud version of RobotStudio to adjust procedures and improve their robotic solutions anytime, anywhere.

RobotStudio desktop, cloud and AR (augmented reality) viewer solutions make it easy for users to conceive and plan new deployments of ABB robots or adapt existing robots to new production tasks. Innovative features such as automatic path planning help the robot formulate the most efficient path to avoid collisions with existing obstacles. RobotStudio delivers a true “WYSIWYG” user experience with up to 99% accuracy between the robot’s digital twin and actual deployment, reducing design and commissioning time by 50%.

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Application-specific AI-driven software technologies, such as ABB’s Item Picker, provide value-added capabilities that facilitate the deployment of robots with higher performance, safety and quality. For example, best-in-class motion control reduces the power of pick-and-place operations by 17% and increases task speed by 13%. VSLAM (3D Visual synchronous positioning and map building) uses artificial intelligence to achieve accurate indoor navigation in a dynamic indoor environment.

Performance in a variety of production environments

OptiFact has been deployed in several production environments, including a highly automated automotive production environment. In this environment, OptiFact collects and analyzes production process beat times and other key performance indicators, providing excellent visibility into plant operations and saving experts up to 25% of their time. As a result, the customer deployed more than 580 additional robots in their operations.

The platform has also proven its value to small and medium-sized businesses. Another pilot project demonstrated that OptiFact was able to identify production bottlenecks on up to 20 robotic production lines. The customer’s digital team integrated OptiFact into their production environment, from first touch to final delivery, in just two months. Once deployed, OptiFact simplifies data collection and visualizes key performance metrics such as beat times and programmable logic controller (PLC) alerts. By using OptiFact to address the operational inefficiencies it detected, the plant increased productivity by up to 20 percent.