Rethink Robotics wants to make advanced manufacturing smarter: Here’s how

An Intera Insights image from Rethink Robotics’ display at MD&M West [Photo by managing editor Chris Newmarker]

Rethink Robotics is touting a value-add to its Sawyer manufacturing robots: a new feature called Intera Insights that displays key performance indicators (KPIs) on a customizable on-robot display, as well as on smart devices on the same network.

Think easy access to metrics including cycle time, part count, speed and force.

“Instead of just having it be ones and zeros — discreet signals — we’re actually going to package it up and turn into something useful like uptime and runtime, an average cycle time — all those kinds of things that manufacturers can use to better optimize the process and be a little bit more efficient,” Chris Harbert, Rethink’s VP of sales for North America, told Medical Design & Outsourcing last week at MD&M West in Anaheim, Calif.

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