Mathias Kaldenhoff

Pay-per-use platform for robots: Wandelbots, SAP and Infineon in the "Digital Product Factory" innovation process

What do the companies that present their project in this episode do? Smart Systems Hub helps SMEs integrate IoT technologies with a focus on process optimization in the production environment. Wandelbots is all about intuitive and simplified access to robots with the help of software. The start-up is at the forefront of “no-code” for robots – programming robots without having to write any program code. With SAP, they have the unique USP of making this data usable in the ERP as well. The featured project of this podcast is part of the “Digital Product Factory” format of the Smart Systems Hub. Here, project approaches are discussed together with key partners in an initiation and initialization phase – a very large network of knowledge and know-how. This episode revolves around a testbed for increasing the efficiency of robots and developing an asset-as-a-service business model based on a software solution. Despite a high degree of automation, robots often still have potential – especially in their interaction with humans. How can a robot learn to understand which work step a human wants to do next? SAP Germany and semiconductor manufacturer Infineon jointly addressed this challenge at Smart Systems Hub. What the solution and the result looks like and what (transferable) added values there are can be heard in this podcast episode.