Smart Safety Solutions: Safe Human-Robot Collaboration

Our digital safety technologies help cobot users safeguard their robots by reducing complexity in design and maximizing cost-effectiveness. We provide innovative digital solutions that make cobot use safe and cost effective. Our fully digitalized safety design makes complex processes, such as risk and hazard assessments, easy and accessible—entirely without specialized knowledge. We not only meet every safety standard with our patented software solutions but also ensure that your cobots have the desired cycle times and provide the flexibility needed. Over fifteen years of experience in the field of safe human-robot collaboration and findings from lead-managed international standards projects underpin our development work. Custom collaborative formats, from innovation workshops to custom integration of our solution, enable us to help businesses make their cobots safer, better performing and more cost-effective.

Our services include

• designing of cobot application safety (from safety specifications through implementation),
• advising on the development of safety technologies and systems for cobots,
• training on the use of ISO/TS 15066 and
• licensing of secondary technologies for digital and semiautomated safety design of cobots (compliant with the ISO/TS 15066 guidelines for “speed and separation monitoring” and “power and force limiting”).

We are convinced that cobots can be used safely and their cost-effectiveness can be maximized—specifically through innovative, fully digital and novice-friendly safety design. The challenges cobot users face daily when integrating robots have driven us to develop a digital solution that optimally handles the complex interactions of current safety standards and cobot performance to operate cobots safely and cost effectively.

Intuitive control options now make cobots very easy to use. Legally compliant safety design continues to require specialized knowledge and substantial experience, though. Numerous tasks that reduce the risk of danger by collisions with a robot have to be completed, from the risk and hazard assessment through the final safety certification. Complete digitalization of the safety design simplifies the steps to a safe cobot tremendously. Moreover, our digital approach provides new options, such as systematically increasing cobots’ cost-effectiveness.

We benefit from years of experience when we develop solutions for digital safety design. We have been deeply involved in safe human-robot collaboration and cobots for over fifteen years, developing numerous sensor technologies and digital tools that simplify cost-effective cobot safeguarding.

Our approach

• Digital safety engineering: Our digital tools calculate safe speeds for power and force limiting and safety distances for speed and separation monitoring.
• Digital risk assessment: Our novice-friendly assistant systems and automatic functions simplify the steps of risk and hazard assessments significantly, ensuring that you are in full legal compliance. This makes specialized knowledge unnecessary.
• International standards: We initiate and lead-manage international standards projects, keeping a close eye on market demands.

Your benefits

• High design reliability: Balance safety and cost effectiveness optimally with our tools—right from the very first design step.
• Less work: Cut the time required for safety certification (e.g., collision testing on cobots) with our tools while improving your cobot’s flexibility.
• Lower costs: Design your cobot’s safety yourself, benefitting from the expertise our tools provide you.

Our patented software solutions ensure that you always know everything going on. Novice-friendly assistive functions and automated steps expedite safety design significantly while ensuring compliance with all safety standards. You cobot’s performance is never forgotten. The premise of digital safety design is always to make the most out of every cobot. This means that financial metrics, such as cycle times, are maximized, while complying with all safety standards.

Our collaborative formats

Our work and services are aimed at integrating our digital safety design in new and existing software products for end users or even in robot controllers. We use the following collaborative formats to do this:

• Innovation workshops: We survey your specific requirements for integrating our solution in your products and develop possible methods for doing this.
• Capability analyses: We collect your metrics and, if desired, prepare a cost-benefit analysis that ultimately shows the amortization of integration costs.
• Concept development: We develop and assess different integration concepts.
• Prototype integration: We implement your preferred integration concept and integrate our solution prototype in your target system.
• Implementation support: We help you turn prototype integration into an operational function of the target system.

We additionally provide development in which we customize the implementation of our solution and expertise as you desire.