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FASTSUITE Edition 2
FASTSUITE Edition 2 is a software to simulate and program industrial robots and machines in a 3D virtual environment. The offline programming software brings digital twinning and sustainable digitalization in product development to manufacturers worldwide.
What are the benefits of FASTSUITE Edition 2 for offline programming?
by minimizing downtime of expensive production equipment and human resources
related to the planning and setup of production equipment in the discrete manufacturing industries
and unforeseen inaccuracies during the factory planning and production ramp-up
by consequent digitalization and elimination of media breaks in the digital factory process
based on your existing IT-landscape, rather than providing merely isolated fractions of a solution
ease of use and possibility for offline programming various robot and machine brands
Offline Programming, simulation, commissioning, and other downstream processes require a realistic simulation model that represents the robot cell in all necessary details. CENIT FASTSUITE is supporting users to easily create and manage layouts from 3D CAD data by defining its kinematics and even the simulation behavior. If any component is missing, it can be quickly added an included into the simulation layout.
CENIT's Digital Factory Software FASTSUITE Edition 2 especially targets different process steps closing the gap between product design and the real production.
Due to its functional range and modularity, it is a comprehensive solution for offline programming. From small and medium businesses (SMBs) that program a single robot cell to large companies aiming to support the entire digital factory in the future, the CENIT solution caters to their requirements for product creation digitalization.
The scalability of FASTSUITE from CENIT allows user companies to start small with offline programming and extend the solution as their project requirements grow.
Tailor made packages for maximized effectivity
On the subdomain documentation.cenit.com you can read all technical details about the software.
It happens that fixtures need to be re-designed due to reachability issues and collisions with robots or tools. Very often, these problems are only detected after the fixture design is done, so every modification requires additional time and resources, and thus costs. What if the process could be inverted? Imagine you create your robot program first, and you use the working area of the robot and tool as well as the optimized workpiece designing the fixture, and for positioning the clamps. This video shows how it can be done by using a swept volume. By using this swept volume function, there are several use cases feasible:
You can build both simple and more complicated robot cells with just a few clicks and present this to your customer as a "digital twin" via a 3DPDF. You can also present visions to your customers during retrofits or visits to existing customers and generate ideas together with the customer.
Through our in-house development team, we have the possibility to carry out customer-specific adaptations and also have the possibility to generate interfaces to various software solutions. Also different PLM integration as as standard available.
Yes, we can provide you with a demo license. For getting started, we will also provide you with a pre-defined use case that comes along with a self-learn tutorial.
Sure, FASTSUITE comes along with quite complete packages for typical user roles. But there is an option to start with offline-programming, for example, and add the option for connecting virtual controllers in a later step. For this reason, we will offer upgrade options.
Our software licenses are shareable by default. Just install them on a license server, and feel free to share them in your team!
FASTSUITE supports a huge variety of machines and robots and also other equipment. Check out our library and you will see that we have a very large library of the most common manufacturers available. But even if there is something missing, it is quite easy to add elements with our resource builder. Either you do it by yourself, or you contact our support team.
Supported robots and machine tools
Connectors
For connecting CENIT FASTSUITE layouts with virtual controllers, the following pre-customized connectors are available in the library.
Programable Logic Controller (PLC) Connectors:
Virtual Robot Controller (VRC) Connectors:
Virtual Machine Controller (VMC) Connectors:
Generic Connectors:
Our support team is available for you on all our branch offices in the Americas, in Europe and in Asia, and our international team speaks many languages. Also our partner network is growing to be even more local, and to provide support in your own language.
FASTSUITE is a stand-alone software, but we are providing standard CAD interfaces (STEP, IGES etc.) as well as native interfaces to deal with all relevant 3D CAD formats. Thanks to our smart "Process Geometry" concept, we can even support design changes and variant management - so, the advantages of a digital continuity are all available without the need to be intergrated into a specific CAD system.
The following CAD file formats are supported:
That is just perfect! FASTSUITE will not replace these tools, but connect with them. You can benefit from all our advantages, and by connecting with the manufacturer's software you can even include the virtual teach-pendant into your work methods, and use the embedded virtual controller for perfect simulation results.
FASTSUITE is offered with both, a purchase model including a maintenance option and a subscription model. On individual request we also have short-term rental options to flatten project peaks. Just contact your local sales manager to discuss the commercial model that is best for you.
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Roller hemming, spot welding and gluing can all be perfectly automated with FASTSUITE. In all three technologies, manual programming incl. teaching is highly complex and demands maximum concentration. By merging the CAD data for the workpiece with the installation data, FASTSUITE can assume these tasks that previously had to be done manually.
If we do the simulation in FASTSUITE and then the customer wants to specify a different robot or we need to swap it out due to a supply chain issue, we’ll still need to reprogram, but all the fundamentals are already there. The advantage is that any robot you grab, all the limits are already set up, so robot reach studies and other parameters are already handled. It’s quicker and less expensive to change out the robot if we’ve done it through the FASTSUITE path.
The OLP project is of course good for our figures. But we also see that our employees are very satisfied and that is very important to us at Crown.
Crown Gabelstapler GmbH & Co. KG
Three reasons to choose CENIT
CENIT is a software editor that develops a unique software to program various brands of robots and machine
CENIT has strong partnerships with Robot and Machine brands and relies on firsthand expert input when developing the software
CENIT has been developing software for this niche segment for more than 30 years, we have put a lot of know-how into the methodology available, in the software, for different technologies
Would you also like to swim along on the wave of success? We will be happy to help you.
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