The economic pressure on replacing human personnel with automated devices in production, combined with the limited flexibility of automation technology, have defined, so far, an approach toward automation which relegates the human as servant of protected “automation islands”, with only big red button to press when something goes wrong.  Automated islands vs. collaborative automation Automation islands are capable of performing autonomously added-value tasks,…

We are currently implementing the Sharework project in the machining shop floor located in Cembre’s plant in Brescia (Italy): a solution in which production engineers, operators and human resources are all engaged. Our idea is to develop a centralised logistic area with cobots and AGVs which can perform clamping and unclamping tasks, while operators focus…