From 1 to N, you must have this secret weapon!

A few years ago, even if your factory had only two AMR devices, it could be considered an advanced digital factory. But now, warehouses, factories and other facilities are deploying AMR fleets on a large scale. It is not new for a manufacturer to have an AMR fleet. But if you still think that AMR is just a logistics transportation tool to transport goods from point A to point B, then we now have good news and bad news for you.

The bad news is that you haven't yet discovered the full capabilities of the K-MR Picture S system.

The good news is that your relationship with KUKA AMR has just begun.

With its intelligent, efficient, flexible, convenient, safe and stable features, AMR has been widely used in e-commerce warehousing, 3C electronics, semiconductors, automobiles and parts, high-end equipment manufacturing, etc. However, relying solely on the AMR itself is far from enough for enterprises to deploy AMR on a large scale and maximize the advantages of intelligent upgrades. Therefore, an excellent software platform is particularly important.

KUKA AMR

High-quality software can improve the intelligence and flexibility of AMRs, allowing users to issue commands more quickly and making robots run more safely, stably and accurately. Secondly, as more and more companies require hundreds of AMRs to work in clusters, this places higher demands on the algorithms and computing power of the AMR commander cluster scheduling system.

The K-MR Picture S (KUKA Mobile Robot Expert System) independently developed by KUKA AMR is based on a variety of complex AI scheduling algorithms. It helps companies deploy AMRs fleets quickly and efficiently, and achieves rapid deployment from 0 to 1 and then to N. At the same time, it also has the ability of flexible process orchestration and full coverage of peripheral docking. It can manage several AMRs in the same field for collaborative operation at the same time, ensuring 7×24 hours of uninterrupted operation.

In addition, the K-MR Image S system will help companies realize group intelligence, task execution and efficient collaboration of various types of mobile robots in the entire process and all links within the factory, breaking down system barriers while supporting various industrial manufacturing scenarios, so as to more widely adapt to customers' internal logistics planning and management operations, and help companies build intelligent and digital smart factories.

As the saying goes, the underlying infrastructure determines the superstructure. This is also true in the AMR software platform. The underlying logic determines the upper limit of business processing. Only with a complete and powerful set of underlying algorithm logic and massive computing power can the AMR fleet realize path planning, driving strategy, task scheduling, vehicle scheduling, and proximity principle in subsequent work to meet scene requirements.

In the K-MRe S system, KUKA AMR uses the Java web application of the Spring boot framework to write the underlying logic. Based on the three modules implemented by JAVA web, K-RCS, K-WCS, and K-ECS can seamlessly connect to the upper system, acquire data information, arrange task processes, coordinate multi-robot scheduling, and connect and schedule external equipment, etc., to realize the automation, intelligence, and digitalization of factory manufacturing.

K-MR Image S system software platform login interface

At this point, you will ask, why not the easy-to-use Python or the commonly used languages ​​​​in the manufacturing industry C++/C#? In fact, not every company can choose the programming language they want to use based solely on the technical advantages of the programming language and its applicability to specific problems.

In addition to being not much different from traditional web programs, JAVA itself has many years of technical accumulation. Admittedly, it does not have the convenience and simplicity of new languages, but the underlying scalability and future developability of JAVA language provide a foundation for more future development and possibilities of K-MR Image S system. In other words, we are not only optimizing our control system, but also optimizing the productivity of our developers.

K-WCS process control system interface

Unlike traditional B-side web systems, K-MR in the mobile robot industry

The S system not only needs to consider the basic characteristics of B-end products such as interaction and functional logic in design, but also bears more responsibilities that require docking with more hardware products. With the structural upgrade of consumption, personalized and customized consumer demand has become increasingly prominent, and there is an increasing demand for diversified production and manufacturing, small batches, customization, and rapid iterations, which requires the production line to evolve from a fixed mode to a flexible and variable mode.

KUKA AMR targets the current manufacturing industry's need for a more flexible and agile production model, and needs to meet the needs of third-party equipment assistance, third-party equipment communication protocol docking, etc., with this as the core content, truly bringing into play the "flexibility" characteristics that the traditional manufacturing and traditional logistics and transportation industries need to possess. This is also the true feature and capability of our K-MR Image S system that runs through the entire underlying structure and system layer.

Of course, the technologies related to logistics and warehousing equipment, whether hardware or software, need to be constantly innovated to launch trustworthy technologies and products. But in fact, the current software systems, scheduling systems, and business systems on the market are highly homogenized. Therefore, it is particularly important to innovate, achieve differentiation, break the market situation, and truly empower customers.

K-RCS robot dispatch system interface

However, this is not a big problem for KUKA AMR.

Unlike most software systems, K-MR

From the beginning, KUKA AMR has never thought of "building a car behind closed doors". From AMR encoding products to AMR hardware to AMR software systems, KUKA AMR has fully integrated openness into its design.

The S system can easily access various communication software, analysis software, and safety detection software, and allows AMR to be tightly integrated with the customer's factory's existing EPR and WMS systems.

Do you think that's all?

Of course not! Openness is not limited to the software itself. In addition to system compatibility, KUKA AMR is also compatible with third-party robots. Yes, that's right, if you have deployed non-KUKA AMRs, you don't need to replace a batch of AMRs to adapt to the K-MR Image S system. At the same time, KUKA AMR also supports interface customization, or opens the interface for enterprises to cooperate in development, etc.

K-ECS equipment control system interface

In addition, KUKA AMR also pays special attention to system design, such as low-code development, functional modularization, and logical graphics. Users can help enterprises complete business development by simply "dragging and pulling", and it also supports automatic generation of databases, processing flow business, and graphic process design. In other words, you can build an application system with a few clicks of the mouse, without many steps of typing codes manually.

However, the K-MRe S system is not a panacea. Even with a good system, there are still many problems in the process of using the system in the enterprise.

For example, if the company does not have a clear understanding of its business, the software system will not fit the company's business, will not provide enough value to the company, and the subsequent problems faced by the company after the system deployment are difficult to solve. Therefore, if there are no operators in the company who can understand the system well to carry out system operation and maintenance management, this will also become one of the difficulties in the company's digital transformation and upgrade.

However, this is still not a big problem for KUKA AMR.

In the early stage, KUKA AMR will provide "1V1 service" to "tailor-make" exclusive services for customers; in the later stage, KUKA AMR will also provide "running companion" services to help customers digest and understand the operational background and principles, and help customers establish preliminary concepts and operational management after deploying AMR.

As for the specific content of the service, let me keep it a secret for now, and we will talk about it next time~ (To be honest, there is indeed too much content to explain in a few words, so it will take a long time to plan...)

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