KUKA Demonstrates Latest Digital Solutions

The starting signal for KUKA's digital offensive: Following the establishment of the new digital division, KUKA presented its comprehensive portfolio at its first software and digital event under the motto ‘KUKA digital powering your businesses at its headquarters in Augsburg. The long-established company, known for its industrial robots, is increasingly focusing on the consistent and seamless digitalization of global industrial landscapes. The highlight of the event: mosaixx, the open, collaborative cloud platform for industrial software-as-a-service. KUKA's Development and Technology Center was transformed into a discussion platform for software, digitalization and artificial intelligence. In workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches, customers and partners from the global mechanical and plant engineering sector, the automotive industry and representatives of major software companies discussed current challenges in the economy and solutions for driving end-to-end digitalization in industry. In an expo area, KUKA provided exclusive insights into its software and digital offering with products and solutions for the digitalization of the entire lifecycle of a production: from the first layout idea of a factory in a planning software, hosted on the cloud platform ‘mosaixx’, to the simulation and offline-programming of the factory with Visual Components, the simulation and programming of the integrated robots with KUKA.Sim and the AI-based Microsoft KRL Copilot, through to the subsequent networking of the robots with KUKA.iiQoT and the expertise of Device Insight in shopfloor digitalization and data analysis in the sense of a data-driven factory. The new KUKA Digital segment, with its hardware-independent software and digital offering from mosaixx, "Visual Components and Device Insight," was the focus of the event. The new division's offering is based on KUKA's robotics and plant engineering expertise and promotes seamless digitalization. Industrial robotics and automation solutions are becoming increasingly important and are being used in more and more markets worldwide. At the same time, software is playing an ever more decisive role. What used to be solved mechanically is now being taken over by electronics and the associated software. Planning, implementing and later operating a production facility is a complex process. With regard to the associated software, this currently often means that billing models are inflexible, the required software products are not cloud-compatible and thus tied to local computers, making collaboration on projects impossible. This is where mosaixx comes in. Tailored to the needs of special machine manufacturing, mosaixx uses a combination of software tools, data management, cloud computing and process understanding to provide the basis for seamless digital production. System integrators and other engineering customers get access to a wide range of software solutions for ECAD and MCAD programs, simulation, offline programming and virtual commissioning. This enables engineers to efficiently structure their workflows within a project in a shared and location-independent work environment with processes, workflows and cloud storage, link them securely and bill them as needed. mosaixx is initially aimed at small and medium-sized companies in the DACH region and in Europe. Expansion to North America is planned for early 2025.