Sounds interesting, although single vendor is much easier than multi-vendor, especially when you throw in parallel purchasing decisions on short timelines and b

Sounds interesting, although single vendor is much easier than multi-vendor, especially when you throw in parallel purchasing decisions on short timelines and both execute and receive sales and tech support in Chinese... A generalized solution necessarily has a strong spatial component. Most vendor motion planning applications seem to be either custom and cell/unit-operation specific or are expensive specialist general applications with high complexity that often exist as plugins to CAM tools like SolidWorks. I don't have the time and resources to acquire and delve in to those, so my approach has been to accept the fact and go ghetto with cheap local hardware that comes without motion planning or integration support, observe existing industry processes, and attempt to self-build iteratively. Luckily I've already built a team to produce custom robotics cheaply and quickly and recently added an experienced production manager from the automotive sector, so we have an advantage in this space.