Overview
- Seminar
Smart automation of manufacturing processes
Optimize before investing
on March 26-27, 2026, in Stuttgart
Im Fokus stehen Leichtbauroboter, die sich als Lowcost-Automatisierung für manuelle Montage- und Handlingsprozesse zunehmend durchsetzen.
The best investment is still the one you don't need!
The industry is focusing on automation and digitalization. However, this kind of “productivity at the touch of a button” can be expensive and, when high investment costs, long planning horizons, and a lack of know-how and expertise come together, it can quickly lead to disaster. The challenge is to consider not only technological aspects but also procedural aspects in automation projects. Ideally, this should be done in such a way that investments can even be avoided. The seminar will show the optimal way to optimize processes and automation, backed up with examples and exercises.
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Your benefits:
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Learn about the smart automation approach
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Understanding the connection between optimization and automation
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Identify and eliminate inefficiencies in processes
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Develop and visualize relevant goals and KPIs
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Clarify feasibility and evaluate alternatives
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Recognize that not everything needs to be automated
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Learn to program a no-code lightweight robot
Target group:
Managers and employees who want to use automation in a targeted and economical way in production and assembly, rather than investing in expensive technology without prior process optimization.
Course content at a glance
Day 1
Day 2
Intro: Why optimize before investing?
• Welcome and objectives
• Common mistakes in automation
• Success factors for efficient automation
Analysis and optimization of existing processes
• Selection of processes, identification of bottlenecks and waste
• Process optimization as the basis for automation
• Exercises, simulations, and examples
Develop automation concepts
• Clarify the suitability of processes and work steps
• Set goals and performance metrics
• Develop scalable, modular, partial automation solutions
• Check economic efficiency and usefulness
• Develop decision matrix and criteria
Acquire your own automation expertise
• Programming applications on a cobot
• Fundamentals of feasibility studies and safety concepts
• Project examples Handling of workpieces and workpiece carriers
Participants' cases
• Application of seminar content to selected projects of the participants
Implementation and change management
• Communicate and visualize the project, goals, and KPIs
• Involve employees and develop a roadmap
• Install new processes, launch pilot projects
• Project controlling and employee communication
Gerold Henrichsen
A-Quadrat
application engineer
Customized solutions
Gripper/camera specialist
