At Osvald Jensen, we’re constantly working to make our production a little smarter. Right now, we’re doing this together with MADE and the Danish Technological Institute in an exciting innovation project where we’re taking the next step in flexible robotic automation.
We manufacture a wide variety of parts—often in small and medium-sized production runs. That’s why our automation systems need to be capable of more than just repeating the same movement over and over again.
The goal is to develop a flexible robotic solution that can recognize and handle various workpieces and make it easier to set up new production runs. This could allow us to utilize our machines for more hours each day—without compromising the flexibility that characterizes our production.
The project builds on our previous experience with, among other things, 3D camera technology and automatic object recognition. This time, we’re taking the technology a step further, and we’ve now reached a point where we’re really starting to see the possibilities.
We’re not quite there yet. We’re still testing, fine-tuning, and learning as we go—but things are looking promising. Later this year, we look forward to sharing much more and, above all, demonstrating what the solution can do in practice.
Because the trick isn't just to get the machines to work after hours. The trick is to get them to do it—even when the task changes.