Industry 4.0The connected factory from Bosch
"Industry 4.0 live at Bosch" - under this slogan, Bosch demonstrated at the Hannover Messe 2016 how production can be networked along the value stream and across company boundaries. What components and concepts are behind it?
Bosch also aims to increase productivity in industrial manufacturing with its Apas family. The production assistants are easy to program and flexible to use. The existing family is now being expanded with the new 'Apas Workstation'. The intelligently networked workstation combines a work surface, a collaborative robot arm and a screen that displays work instructions. Thanks to sensitive sensor skin, the robot arm stops immediately as soon as a person comes too close. Man and machine therefore cooperate without a safety fence. 'Apas' is certified by the German employers' liability insurance association for direct cooperation with humans.