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Technological Institute.
- In Gribelab, we collect national and international knowledge about material handling technology for robots. We engage in dialogue with businesses about existing and future gripping robot solutions that – just like humans – can recognise, understand, grip and manipulate material with geometric and mate-rial variation. As an example, we show a number of advanced robots at the Centre for Robot Technol-ogy in Odense. We expect that it will provide Danish production businesses with a much-needed technology boost that will improve their competitiveness once they learn how the advanced technology can be used, says Claus Risager. He emphasises that many other pro-duction businesses in the Western world have already found the key to the advanced gripping solutions of the future.
- In the next four years, we expect to see the number of flexible indus-trial robots multiply worldwide. So Danish production businesses really need to advance now if they don’t want to be overtaken on the inside track, says Claus Risager.
Success with suction cups For several years, Scape Technolo-gies A/S have benefited from the Danish Technological Institute’s advice in a partnership aiming to develop two specific types of grip-ping technologies together with a camera. Through a suction cup, the unit is to lift and with a firm grip handle various massive cylindrical metal objects placed randomly in a box.
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Through Gribelab, the Danish Tech-nological Institute offers assistance in the special development of grip-pers, fingers, jaws, hybrid actuation mechanisms and simulation grip situations. Furthermore, the Insti-tute offers gripper designs, variation tolerance testing and optimum layout for gripping robot cells.
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Danish businesses aiming for ad-vanced automation do not need to move industrial production to the Far east. A new project involving 500 businesses is to show the way.
The Danish Industry Foundation, Aalborg university, Copenhagen Busi-ness School, university of Southern Denmark, Eltronic A/S and the Danish Technological Institute have joined forces to help Danish businesses find the comprehensive economic model for and benefit of using advanced robot technology. The project is called
‘Advanced Automation Investment Model’ (AIM), and the Danish Industry Foundation has granted the project financial support of EUR 1.6 million.
- Industrial production is the bedrock of the Danish economy. The
indus-Industrial production in Denmark – also in future?
try accounts for the bulk of Danish exports, and important develop-ment activities are closely related to day-to-day production. If industrial production leaves the country, so will development tasks. Advanced robot technology can keep production and innovative competences in Denmark.
This project is therefore important to Danish industry, says Mads lebech, CEO of the Danish Industry Founda-tion, a view shared by Bo Genefke, Team leader from the Danish Techno-logical Institute:
- In recent years, we’ve seen and helped many Danish businesses that have foregone the initially cheap solu-tion of moving producsolu-tion to the Far East. In each case, management had been forward-looking and invested in domestic production, for which reason they now have sound businesses with high-technology production, says Bo Genefke.
Benefits from Danish production In future, Danish businesses that invest in more complex facilities and systems while making the right changes to management and organi-sation will make a quantum leap in production and competitiveness – in addition to having up-to-date and
future-proof production facilities and less physical strain on staff, states Jan Rose Skaksen, Professor of Economics at the Copenhagen Business School.
- Furthermore, keeping jobs and capital in Denmark benefits society.
The project is to set economic goals for what is otherwise immeasurable:
Innovation, knowledge, knowhow, cross-organisation cooperation, etc.
As far as we know, there is noth-ing similar in Denmark or the world, even though the trend of transferring production abroad is a concern to all industrialised Western countries.
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The project collects valid data about how automation impacts the econo-mies and innovative forces of 500 Danish businesses. These data will result in a tool that can be used to provide tailored information about what the individual company will gain from investing in advanced automa-tion – and how to go about it.
AIM is open to all businesses. Read more about the project on:
www.teknologisk.dk/aim (in Danish)
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P.the Danish technological Institute wants to strengthen Danish companies’ perform-ance.
One of the big questions is how we can ensure that tomorrow’s society is sustainable, bolstered by a Danish business sector that is becoming better at staying the course. We can see a current, urgent need for added staff with fresh energy, motivation and new learning. One of the keys to success lies in access to prac-tice-oriented and internationally based training, competence de-velopment and lifelong learning.
We regard it as our prime task to pave the way for real com-petence development through individually tailored training activities for both employees and managers. Our contribution to the Danish business sector is to support company performance by focusing on learning and en-suring the highest possible effect of competence development – be it acquisition of new knowledge or enhancement of existing competences. That strengthens performance!
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In cooperation with SimCorp A/S, the Danish technological Institute has developed a new training programme for pro-grammers. the programme will ensure that these staff members are better prepared in future to develop software for customers using a Microsoft platform.
SimCorp A/S is a Danish IT company that develops software solutions for large financial insti-tutions worldwide. The company employs a staff of just over 1,100, working in offices around the globe from Australia and Asia to north America and Europe.
The new supplementary training programme was initiated because SimCorp A/S wanted to help staff members develop new software