The RUC 2019 is over! It's now time to relax with some games… but first, let's fill you in on our amazing automation challenge.
What an action-packed two days we've had!
We've learned some French and heard some inspiring stories. We've experienced a dangerous product demo. We've programmed cobots in a silent disco, and we've had some impressive online chat.
The attendees here at RUC 2019 have been working harder than they've probably ever worked in a two-day conference (not to mention those of us in the Robotiq team!).
Right now, we've wrapped up the official activities here. It's now time for us to enjoy the games night!
But, first…
Let's tell you about the amazing Automation Challenge that we've just had…
Over the last two days, the tech track attendees have been getting a ton of hands-on learning with the 54 UR robots in our R2-D2 room. The sales track attendees have experienced equally intense learning about the cobot capabilities in the JARVIS room.
Together, these attendees have enough cobot knowledge and skills to take on the world!
But, can they master our Automation Challenge?
This year's challenge is a fun one. Here's how it works:
Easy, you might think, given that the tech participants have spent two days learning how to program these applications…
The tech participants are not allowed to program the cobots!
It's completely hands-off for them.
Only the sales participants and end-users can program the cobots (that's the people with the light blue surrounding their name on their badges). The tech participants can only act as mentors.
It sounds a bit tougher now, right!?
You might have thought that our attendees would be tired of cobots by now, what with all the intensive workshops they've been doing over the past two days.
But, no! Nobody gets tired of cobots here at RUC!
The teams jumped into action.
The challenge applications were not exactly the same as the ones that they had been doing in the tech workshops, but they were similar.
Here are the details of the 4 challenges.
Teams with this challenge had to completely sand a part which was covered in pen marks. Success in this challenge meant removing all of the marks.
Teams with this challenge had to run a complete machine cycle for 8 parts without stops.
Teams with this challenge had to inspect 5 parts.
This involved:
Teams with this challenge had to complete 2 assemblies, which involved:
There was a lot of great teamwork going on here in the R2-D2 room.
After 2 hours, the teams had made amazing progress and many had managed to some impressive progress.
#RUC2019 Beth Enos of Numatic Engineering is committed to finishing the RUC challenge! Go Beth!! pic.twitter.com/LlU3TCpY77
— Roboworld ® (@Roboworld_LLC) 5 September 2019
Everyone did amazingly. But, it is a competition after all. There are some winners!
Here are the winners from each category:
Congratulations, Mohammad Nazzali from Shelley Automation, Erik Pourtau from SYSAXES, Samir Shaikh from FPE Automation, and Guillaume Walsh from Conceptromec!
It's a tie!
Congratulations, Marcos Jiménez from Robotplus and Craig Zoberis from Fusion OEM!
And
Congratulations, Michael Lessard from RES Automatisation Contrôle and Matt Miller from Automation Inc!
Congratulations, Ryan Weaver from Axis New England and Carlos Han from Smith & Nephew!
Congratulations, Daniel Espinoza from Avior, Lance Price from Olympus Controls, and Carey Beevers from Phillips Corporation!
Plus, we have the winning team for the Sales Challenge.
Congratulations Team #6!
That's it! The Robotiq User Conference over for another year.
What a year it has been!
Now, it's time for us to relax. As Patrick Tawagi from Vention.io posted earlier today... It's cocktail time!
Ready to RUC! It's cocktail time at #RUC2019! @pbtawagi@Vention_io @Robotiq_Inc pic.twitter.com/t3FiqbEIja
— Roboworld ® (@Roboworld_LLC) 5 September 2019
And it's also games time! We've got a some games to help everyone unwind.
Until next year's RUC everyone!