Collaborative automation: a key enabling technology to move from automation islands to integrated and reactive shop floors
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,…
