As part of the Tage der Industriekultur, the “Spätschicht” took place on Friday evening, with FusionSystems opening its doors from 4 p.m. alongside 80 other companies from Chemnitz and the Erzgebirge region. Despite the rainy weather, all six of our guided tours between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. were fully booked, and interest in FusionSystems was very high.
This year, the focus of our presentation was on automation technology. On a tour of our company, visitors first got to know our logistics demonstrator, a kind of test hall in which our automated guided vehicle does its rounds. The small-load system navigated along a track-guided route past a shelving system with a magazine and a dispensing module. In addition, visitors were able to follow all relevant parameters of the master control system live on a graphical interface, such as the fill levels of the magazines or the current position of the AGV. Afterwards, visitors young and old were pleased to be handed the goods collected from the shelving system directly, before the tour continued in our workshop hall.
On the topic of automation technology, our robot arm, which had learned to play “Scrabble” in recent weeks, could not be missing. With the help of software, the robot was taught all the letters available in the game, so that when a selected word was entered it searched for the matching letters and laid out the word in the correct order. Using the game “Scrabble” as an example, we demonstrated our automation expertise in a playful way. The data recorded by the automated guided vehicle and the robot was brought together in the dashboard of our FusionSystems Infrastructure, which is used to manage industrial and data logistics networks.
The tour of our workshop hall ended with insights into the field of artificial intelligence. Here, our visitors got to know person detection and the semantic segmentation of objects, which, for example, enables robots to grip tools safely in order to hand them over to people.
We look forward to the next Spätschicht in 2020 and to your visit.
