Digital Tools for Supporting Production Preparation: Reflections Related to Designing Human-Robot Collaboration Layouts

Accelerating technological developments and increasing competition make it important to secure the development of production solutions that allows for resource efficient layouts continuous improvements. When developing solutions, usage digital tools is an asset supports preparation engineers in their work. However, emerging possibilities design where operator a robot collaboratively share task, add more challenges engineers. The layout become complex, with parameters analyze safe working environment, supporting interaction between technologies operators. human-robot-collaborative (HRC) layouts, ever shorter product life cycles, could benefit from increased use tools, as powerful simulation are available on market. This paper will explore (such simulation, emulation, visualization) potential contribution different HRC designing steps. Based this, needs be reflected guideline digitalized process explored perspective human-robot collaborative layout..