The "Windows System" of the Robotics Industry D:PLOY

In response to the above industry pain points, D:PLOY came into being.

On February 16, OnRobot held a D:PLOY media conference and dealer conference in Shanghai. James Taylor, General Manager of OnRobot Asia Pacific, and Wang Feng, General Manager of OnRobot Greater China, attended the conference and gave an in-depth and concrete explanation and demonstration of D:PLOY's overall development strategy, specific advantages, and value to the automation industry.

“D:PLOY is a completely new concept that aims to automate time-consuming and highly specialized tasks, so that our users don’t need to do any programming when we handle all the complexity ourselves,” said James Taylor.

James Taylor, General Manager, OnRobot Asia Pacific

When the gripper is placed on a robot and connected, D:PLOY will automatically discover the device and program itself. After knowing the length, speed, and all the movement space of the robot, D:PLOY will optimize the path planning. This is similar to using a taxi app in daily life. After ordering a car, a map will automatically tell the user the direction of the dispatched car.

If it is done by engineers in the traditional way, even very professional and experienced engineers may take 30 to 40 hours to complete.

With D:PLOY, all programming and path planning can be done automatically in 10-15 seconds through the cloud, which can save about 36 hours. If you are an integration company, you can use this time to do more projects, save more costs, and deliver solutions to customers faster.

D:PLOY is not a software, but a platform.

"The D:PLOY platform has both hardware and software. Currently, it has four applications: palletizing, CNC machine tools, packaging and transfer. More different applications will be added within two years, and true collaborative applications will be achieved by 2024," said James Taylor.

D:PLOY is equivalent to a computer in the application connection with the robot. After the robot "gripper" is connected to OR:BASE, D:PLOY can discover all devices. OR:BASE will "transport" the parameters entered in the D:PLOY human-machine interface to the cloud to complete the calculation and issue action instructions to D:PLOY.

As a platform, D:PLOY is different from software devices. There is no need to download APP, and there is no need to connect to the Internet during factory application. All programming and design of D:PLOY are completed by the cloud D:PLOY server.

D: PLOY is of great significance to China's local automation market.

Wang Feng, General Manager of OnRobot Greater China

Wang Feng summarized three points in describing the importance of D:PLOY to the overall Chinese local automation market:

New habits and breakthroughs in application solution design logic. D:PLOY has overturned the traditional programming logic habits. Now there is no need to do simulation, and the entire application can be quickly deployed at the customer site in just a dozen or dozens of minutes.

Applications will become the real core, and all hardware, including robots, will return to their carrier nature . This is also an important point to subvert and promote the development of the entire Chinese local automation and robotics industry.

The most simplified deployment will become the mainstream trend. End users and system integrators are all looking for ways to simplify deployment. D:PLOY is an opportunity for the Chinese market to stand at the forefront of the innovative development trend of the simplest deployment.

Thirty or forty years ago, only a few people who knew programming could operate computers. However, after the birth of the Windows system, computers became accessible to ordinary people. The birth of D:PLOY is expected to make it easy for robots to enter every automated production line.