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> “is it even necessary for this three-ton industrial robot to be dynamically reprogrammed from a service center in Stockholm,” The answer is Yes. Very very ye
by Kim_Bruning 6y ago
> “is it even necessary for this three-ton industrial robot to be dynamically reprogrammed from a service center in Stockholm,”
The answer is Yes. Very very yes. Especially when said programmer can't travel across borders due to Covid restrictions.
But even without Covid, it's a lot cheaper and time-effective to let people look at stuff and fix things from stockholm, or antwerp, or warsaw or whatnot. Else every time your robot sneezes, you have to book plane tickets and a hotel. But worst of all, you risk losing many hours of production due to travel time.
In contrast, with remote operation, you can log in, fix problems in well under 30 minutes, and Get Production Running Again.
In a situation where any kind of stoppage basically means the factory is Not Making Money, you can see the very strong value proposition here.
- kritiko 6y agoI don't think it's an all-or-nothing proposition. You can share telemetry and get patches from a remote team without having the equipment connected to the internet to reduce the risk of destroying expensive equipment.
- Kim_Bruning 6y agoVPN or jump host, sufficiently firewalled in all directions. Putting a defenseless PLC or robot controller on the open internet is clearly not the best of plans. (though the amount of people using teamviewer is telling)