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Stäubli Case Study

Stäubli Robotics, a division of Stäubli, is a leading global player in robotics, consistently delivering effective and reliable engineering, service, and support.


Market: Industrial automation/robotics

Products:
CGM Modeler CGM Polyhedra 3D InterOp HOOPS Visualize
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Summary

Stäubli Robotics is a leading global player in the robotics industry. Stäubli was looking for a 3D engine that was powerful enough to open new possibilities in their software that would enable them to prepare for the next five to ten years in the market.

Spatial’s CGM Modeler enabled improvements to the development environment in the Stäubli Robotics Suite, including new functionalities that assist in delivering realistic representation. Spatial’s powerful 3D engine brings highly realistic representation to Stäubli’s robotics software.

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The Company

Stäubli is a global mechatronics solution provider with four dedicated Divisions: Electrical Connectors, Fluid Connectors, Robotics and Textile, serving customers who want to increase their productivity in many industrial sectors. Their global workforce of 5500 shares a commitment to partnering with customers in nearly

every industry to provide comprehensive solutions with long-term support. Originally founded in 1892 as a small workshop in Horgen/Zurich, today Stäubli is an international group headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.

Stäubli Robotics, a division of Stäubli, consistently delivers effective and reliable engineering, services, and support. A complete solutions provider for digitally networked production, Stäubli offers a broad range of 4 and 6-axis robots, including robotic arms designed specifically for sensitive environments, autonomous mobile robots, driverless transport systems (AGVs), and cobots for human-robot collaboration.

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The Challenge

Finding Integrated Technology that Sets the Stage for the Future

When Stäubli first approached Spatial they were specifically looking for a 3D engine that was powerful enough to open new possibilities in their software that would enable them to prepare for the next five to ten years in the market.

In November 2021, Stäubli released their Robotics Suite 2022, which included improvements to the development environment as well as new functionality. Functionality in the Stäubli Robotics Suite spans all usage scopes, from design, simulation, and setup debugging to production and optimization.

These improvements came about when Stäubli partnered with Spatial Corp to utilize their powerful 3D engine: CGM Modeler (CGM). CGM provided the Stäubli Robotics Suite with high-quality representations that previously could not be achieved.

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The Solution

The Right 3D Engine to Enable Robust Features

The Stäubli Robotics Suite 2022 offers optimized and powerful features that allow both standard and special solutions for complex automation scenarios to be readily visualized, simulated, validated, and realized. These features were enabled by Spatial’s CGM Modeler.

Spatial’s CGM Modeler enabled improvements to the development environment in the Stäubli Robotics Suite, including new functionalities that assist in delivering realistic representation.

The Benefits of CGM within Stäubli Robotics Suite:

  • Smooth, jerk-free, 3D representations, even when simulating extensive production lines, are displayed in high resolution down to the smallest detail
  • Significant reduction in the number of mouse clicks within the Suite, with visible results being generated quickly and easily • STEP files can be imported even faster via drag and drop
  • Positioning is more intuitive

CGM helps the Stäubli Robotics Suite enable useful and value-added capabilities for the creation of new and innovative digitally networked productions. The updated, CGM-enabled, development environment within the Stäubli Robotics Suite involves all areas of usage including design, simulation, setup debugging, production, and optimization.

Spatial’s CGM Modeler is the modern, 3D engine that enables robust functionalities in the Stäubli development environment, making it an extremely powerful engineering tool with high performance and ease of use. Additionally, Spatial’s interoperability, modeling, and visualization components easily integrate for higher performance capabilities with increased ease-of-use. Because of this, Stäubli also utilized Spatial’s CGM Polyhedra, 3D InterOp, and HOOPS Visualize within their Robotics Suite.

The Results

Modular and Adaptive Solution

Stäubli has proudly worked with Spatial’s parent company, Dassault Systèmes, and their CATIA product for nearly 30 years. They knew that by utilizing Spatial’s SDKs, Stäubli’s developers would benefit from a mature product that comes with the value-add of years of software engineering and easy integration with other software and file types. In terms of flexibility, Stäubli developers can now add new modules, use the ones they want, and ignore the ones they don’t need. This freedom of integration was key for Stäubli developers; they did not want to feel locked inside a complete end-to-end solution.


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The capabilities that Spatial’s SDKs provide help deliver the kind of realistic representation in the Stäubli Robotics Suite previously reserved for the B2C and gaming sector. With the updated development environment in their Robotics Suite, Stäubli is positioned to rocket toward the robotics industry’s limitless possibilities.

Key Insights

Spatial’s SDKs are industry-leading for a reason.
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Two months before Stäubli planned to launch their Robotics Suite, an event occurred that highlighted the effectiveness of the partnership with Spatial. When recording the software for an upcoming promotion, an instability of the Stäubli Robotics Suite was discovered that inhibited registration of the software.
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Stäubli’s development team worked on the issue internally, as well as sought additional help from the Spatial technical support team. A specific task force was set up with five individuals from Spatial who conducted daily follow-ups in order to find the root cause of the issue and meet the release date. This collaborative example is indicative of the nature of SDKs and the efficient partnership that is formed through collaboration.

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