ROBOCHOP - the future of manufacturing?
At this year’s CeBIT, the main event was CODE_n15’s demonstration of Industry 4.0 using its ROBOCHOP industrial six-axis robots. Internet users from around the world accessed the four robots via the ROBOCHOP website, where a 3D web app allowed them to create small cubist designs. The devices then sculptured the polystyrene cube designs with a hot-wire cutting tool with coaxial cooling.
The ROBOCHOP robots provided attendees with an insight into a future that could have consumers remotely and directly accessing industrial production equipment to manufacture their own personalised parts.
Due to new levels of interconnectedness and big data mining, some industrial plants can already perform self-analysis and self-diagnosis. Automated networks have made engineers omnipotent and omnipresent, if only in a specific facility.
The next stage will be a plant that can predict which parts need replacing and when. The robots and computers will know exactly when to order the replacement, which will be done automatically through a supplier.
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