Helen Knight

X1 Grid turns production facilities into smart factories

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Software designed to turn production facilities into smart factories, by more quickly and easily connecting industrial robots and machinery with different business applications, has been developed in Germany.

Munich-based RoboticsX, which specialises in industrial robotics and automation software, has developed the platform, known as X1 Grid.

The software platform, which was launched at Hannover Messe 2019, is equipped with IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) and IBM Cloud technology.

The system extracts and translates industrial hardware data into information suitable for use by business applications. This information is then analysed by the IBM Watson IoT platform to identify ways to improve production, according to Peter Boras, CEO and co-founder of RoboticsX.

“These days industrial systems tend to be quite complex, you need to study for 100 years to know how to work the machines, so we are trying to offer very simple solutions,” said Boras. “So if there is a problem I want to know how I resolve it, or if I need clear data from the machines, then I want real data that I can base business decisions on,” he said.

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