This edition features some of the top companies that have pioneered the automation industry & are exemplifying the business community

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Bhushan Bhad
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he business space has traversed through a roller
Tcoaster ride. From agrarian society to the industrial
ecosystem and further escalating into the digital
revolution, scientific innovations have revamped the
business community like never before.
Sprouting from an age where hammering a kneel was a
difficult task, technological innovation and IT marvels have
transformed the manufacturing space. Today, an industry
requires to possess software systems and mechanical
components rather than accommodating a vast workforce to
even move a bulky log of wood.
This development has not been an overnight success but a
resilient effort while putting consistent steps towards
technological innovation, creative IT solutions, and a
farsighted vision that steps into the future.
Once considered as the science fiction: Terminator, The
Transformer, Automata, and much more, cinema portrayed
an idea that focuses on the robotics of human interaction.
But from fiction to industry, the journey had been of many
ups and downs.
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5. As a technologist, entrepreneur, or business disruptor, there
are many functionalities, challenges, and throughput
invested in bringing up a single mechanic
component to its live function.
As technology is taking its toll and developing
the manufacturing space, Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning have not been left
behind. Today automating an industry workflow
is an integrated process that combines technology,
software, mechanics, and IT systems. But these
innovative efforts and creative solutions are rarely
discussed and acknowledged among the common
masses and business community.
Understanding these ignored corners and connecting the
dots of the automation industry is our new edition, “10
Most Disruptive Automation Companies to Watch - Volume
II.” Scouting across the globe, we have researched and
curated top disruptors that have pioneered the automation
industry and is exemplifying the business community with
their unique technology leadership hacks.
While you start your journey and stall around these
inspiring stories, make sure to lean on the cover story and
realize the innovative hand and scientific expertise required
to establish a business in the automation space.
As you flip through the pages, read the insightful articles
crafted by our in-house editorial team.
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9. Featuring Brief
Company Name
FRANK ANJEAUX
CEO and Founder
Fizyr B.V.
fizyr.com
Easy Energy Systems
easyenergysystems.com
Augmentus
augmentus.tech
doks. Innovation
doks-innovation.com
AXYN Robotics
axyn.fr
Augmentus is a robot programming software platform that allows
anyone to program industrial robots in minutes without needing
code and CAD.
Axyn Robotique is a French company that designs and
manufactures telepresence robots.
doks. innovation optimizes inventory processes in intralogistics
with modern technology, for example drones, and software that
processes visual data.
Fizyr offer the best pick and place solution to every system
integrator worldwide.
Easy Energy Systems (EES) is passionate about providing
dynamic solutions to the world's energy problems.
Daryl Lim
Co-Founder
Manuel Krieg
COO
Herbert ten Have
CEO
Mark Gaalswyk
Founder and CEO
Alexey Tabolkin
CEO
PaR Systems
par.com
Reveal Group
revealgroup.com
Energid Technologies
energid.com
Eiratech Robotics
eiratech.com
Eiratech Robotics is an end-to-end solutions provider armed
with a portfolio of autonomous solutions to tackle complex
supply-chain challenges.
Energid's robot control software, Actin®, is built to meet the
requirements of industrial, commercial, collaborative, and
consumer robotic systems.
In Home Personal Services brings a unique approach to
caregiving—one that takes the “senior” out of “senior
care”—and allows us to see amazing people who are beautiful
in every way no matter what age
Reveal Group specializes in deploying and scaling Intelligent
Process Automation programs. We are revolutionizing
Operational Management with innovative software.
Neil Tardella
CEO and Co- founder
Savneet Singh
CEO
Ian Crouch
Business Improvement
Expert and CEO
SL Controls Ltd
slcontrols.com
SL Controls helps its customers optimise their manufacturing
processes, improving OEE and productivity, delivering
efficiency savings, and simplifying compliance.
Keith Moran
CEO

12. The debate on climate change
has continued for over a
century now. The discovery
th
was first done by scientists in the 19
century when ice ages and other
natural changes were suspected in the
environment. The effect of CFCs
emitted by human activities started
deteriorating the environment to a
point where the UN finally had to put a
foot down and call for the first
conference on the environment in
Stockholm in 1972.
Since then, many goals have been set
by these yearly environmental
conferences held by the UN to reverse
the worsening climate situation. In this
effort to save mother earth, many
individuals, and organizations,
leveraging the powers of science,
started coming up with ways in which
economic growth and sustainability
could go hand-in-hand.
One such company, at the forefront of
providing dynamic solutions to the
world’s energy problems is Easy
Energy Systems.
In the following interview, Mark
Gaalswyk, the Founder and CEO
elaborates on the inception story of the
company and how it has been
disrupting the energy industry by
providing cutting-edge energy
solutions.
Please brief our audience about EES,
its MEPS®, and how it is currently
positioned as a leading player in the
bioenergy space.
Easy Energy Systems, Inc. has
developed and patented a factory-built
modular technology that can be rapidly
deployed worldwide to help solve the
problem of climate change for the
world. It will do so by enabling the
rapid commercialization of
cutting-edge technologies for
converting many greenhouse causing
wastes into bioenergy and other
value-added products.
Unlike most technologies, the self-
contained automatic modular processes
are combined differently for different
waste feedstocks to create value-added
green energy and biomaterials from all
of the various otherwise waste
by-products. This enables the financial
models of most of the Easy Energy
waste feedstock systems to provide for
a complete system payback within five
years or less – without government
subsidies. (Although I am sure our
customers will take them if offered)
Shed some light on EES’s offerings
and how are these making an impact
on the industry and your clients?
Most distribution of biomass, waste
food products, dead trees causing
forest fires, landfills, waste seaweed,
palm fronds, and various other waste
products are widely distributed across
a region. Instead of placing one large
centralized ‘mega plant’ system in one
location – and then transporting the
waste to the mega plant; the smaller
scale Easy Energy Systems, Inc.
distributed modular plants can be
deployed much closer to the waste.
This may be a clearing in a forest for
cleaning up the dead trees causing
forest fires, besides large industrial
manufacture creating food or paper
waste, adjoining a municipal landfill,
corn stalks near an ag cooperative, or
next to an ocean shore for converting
seaweed into valuable products.
Easy Energy Systems, Inc has an exci ng modular
technology for North American Ag Coops:
Converts the “food – white portion” of a kernel of corn to food or
medical grade glucose.
Converts the “nonfood – yellow portion” of a kernel of corn along with
the corn stalk itself into biofuels, bio electricity and other value add
products. This holds potential to bring to the rural communities of
each state an extra $3 Billion dollars per year!
10 Most Disruptive Automation Companies to Watch

13. The major advantage of this method is
that you do not emit more greenhouse
gases and energy transporting the
waste than the value-added of the
waste. The utilization of the patented
modular technologies of Easy Energy
Systems, Inc. allows for each
individual process module to be
removed and upgraded in the future to
an even more modern and efficient
process – should new technologies be
developed.
This would be similar to how we all
removed our 300 baud modems from
our computers and installed 1200 baud
or ethernet as the computer industry
evolved. This solves the otherwise
large problem of obsolescence in the
emerging field of bio ‘green’
technologies for the end-user systems
can be easily updated to the latest
technology – like a ‘Lego’ simply
removing one module and inserting a
different updated process into its place.
This solves the problem of otherwise
‘obsolete’ inefficient systems littering
the landscape – which has hindered the
Bioenergy arena.
Mark, please brief us about yourself,
your journey in the industry, and
how you have contributed to the
company's success.
I am a ‘farm boy’ from southern MN,
with training in physics, mathematics,
and computer science from St Olaf
College. When I returned to the family
farm to help my brothers crop farm on
our family's 4,500-acre farm and raise
hogs - I was becoming a bit ‘bored’ in
the Winter months. Thus, I started my
company (now known as Easy
Automation, Inc.) in 1986 to perform
programming and design services for
others.
My early endeavors included
performing contract work developing
innovative ag technologies, including
systems to perfectly aerate grain, the
very first field soil mapping and
variable rate fertilizer systems, and
technologies to automatically validate
systems for testing cables on military
missiles and aircraft.
Instead of continuing to just do
contract development work for others
and then watching them develop large-
scale businesses from my
inventions – I decided to focus my
efforts inward on technologies that I
could build and sell myself.
As I needed a feed mill on my own
farm, I decided to develop and build
my own. I really did not like all of the
manual bookkeeping associated with
such a mill, I made it capture and store
all needed information automatically
so that all of my reports could be
generated with the touch of a button.
The early years were not easy. I
remember many nights of sitting out on
the floor of the feed room, weeping
because things were not going as
planned. Not sure what it was, but I
kept on going through this tiring time.
While I now have approximately 20
patents today, my early patents were
related to allowing a feed mill to
automatically mix the perfect
combination of ingredients according
to a predefined perfect model.
This removed the ‘guesswork’ from
feeding groups of animals. It would do
We are a company that
gives everything we have
to deliver the best customer
service we possibly can.
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14. so by precisely weighing and mixing a
different set of ingredients into a feed
formulation for each week of an
animal's life. This was done so that
groups of animals could be fed
perfectly to create an ideal meat-type
under maximized profitability. This
patented ‘Automatic Phase Feeding
Technology’ enabled the company to
grow very quickly, and it received the
INC 500 award as one of the
fastest-growing companies in the USA.
Today, Easy Automation, Inc has over
3,000 feed mill customers feeding a
majority of the nation's swine and
many of the nation's chickens and dairy
operations. The company, in recent
years, has branched into doing very
large-scale fertilizer plants that are also
needing extreme accuracy and
automatic information storage. Easy
Automation, Inc., a Welcome,
MN-based company, is still 100%
owned today by myself and my family
with my two sons, Brady and Chris,
running most of the day to day
operations.
I tell people the company today is not
what it is because I was necessarily
‘smart’ – in actuality, I made thousands
of mistakes on my journey. It is what it
is today because despite making about
every mistake I could possibly make in
starting and growing a company, I tried
my best to learn from those mistakes.
Along the way, I have met some great
business mentors.
My very first board member was the
first engineer ever hired by Medtronic.
I remember him telling me in those
early years, “Don’t ever let yourself
grow so quickly or become so large
that you do not have time to be out
with your customers.” Thus, I have
taken that to heart and spend much of
my time out with customers and
learning first-hand what problems they
have and how I might help them solve
them.
I also take to heart the wise words
stated by a business associate who had
built up a very large successful
company. I was invited to present at
the annual meeting for his employees
on our technology. Before I spoke, he
stated – Staff, we as a company don’t
sell anything. Our job is to listen to the
problems of our customers and focus
on helping them solve all those we can
possibly help them with (even if not
necessarily related to the products we
sell). If we do that, our customer’s
response will be to then buy from us
because we brought solutions to their
problems.
Another strong value we have tried to
push is integrity and empathy for our
customers. When a customer is down,
they don’t want to call in and get a
voice mail – or be told we can’t get at
it for a week. They want it solved now.
Thus, we are a company that gives
everything we have to deliver the best
customer service we possibly
can – even 365 days per year and 24
hours per day after-hours support.
These various values make up what we
see to be our ‘company culture’. As the
CEO, I believe my job is to be
visionary, help solve difficult problems,
but even more essentially, be sure the
values of who we are as a company are
upheld throughout everything we do.
Lastly, in the growth of Easy
Automation, Inc. – I also was fortunate
to have some very talented sons who
literally worked beside me as young
boys. They have grown up and taken
over what I and their mother started
and built it even further into what it is
today.
Being an experienced leader, share
with us your opinion on what impact
has the adoption of modern
technologies such as AI had on the
Modular Systems to convert waste trees to
liquid sugars and biofuels:
Can place Modules in a remote clearing with NO Natural Gas or
electricity utilities needed…clean up and convert all dead trees in a
remote area…then pick up and move modules.

15. bioenergy space and what more
could be expected in the future?
I have been using a ‘form’ of artificial
intelligence in many of the various
products I have created in the past.
Back then, the term ‘Artificial
Intelligence’ was not even a phrase
used in the business like it is today.
Instead, my philosophy was to not just
have our systems ‘automate’ a process
but also have it continuously capture
and store every piece of actual
operating information it could – all the
time while the technology was
operating.
This information would then be used to
allow the automation system to
automatically ‘tune’ and improve itself.
This would be what today is called
‘Machine Learning’. I was fortunate
enough to be able to patent many of
these concepts as they applied to
perfectly making and mixing animal
feed and now fertilizer.
I believe this same concept will also
prove critical in making bio-energy
technology deployment successful. The
reason is that oftentimes new
technologies work ‘perfectly’ in the
lab, yet when they are deployed into
the real world, they end up being
multi-million-dollar disasters. A
common reason for this is that the
deployed did not automatically detect
‘variations’ in the incoming waste
streams, outside temperatures, PH, etc.,
as they changed.
I have made the focus of my bioenergy
company ‘Easy Energy Systems, Inc.’
to gather all the information on
feedstock and operating variation that
we can and then automatically also
‘tune’ and improve itself – just like I
did back when I designed the early
feed mill automation systems.
While altering and ‘tuning’ its
operating parameters based on
changing conditions or feedstocks is
half the equation – continuously
capturing and storing historical
operating parameters and values from
all operations in a database, the
capability is then there to go back and
look at all of the data and have the
system automatically improve its
operation based on the captured
historical data.
My vision is for Easy Energy Systems,
Inc. to deploy thousands of its
factory-built modular systems at
customer sites worldwide, and have all
of them continuously collect operating
data, and then utilize the collection of
this varied data of different feedstocks
and different operating conditions
worldwide back to a central network
database to continually develop and
improve ideal system ‘settings’ for
various feedstocks and conditions for
all of the customers as a group.
It is my belief that this is critical for
the system to perform correctly, and
the lack of this capability is why many
other bioenergy technologies fail
shortly after deployment in the ‘real’
world.
We can convert the
green waste into a valuable soil
amendment that can increase
crop yields by up to 40%.
New Modular Technology
to Convert Green/Food
Waste to a Valuable
Soil Microbe:
This microbe, applied at 4 gallons per acre, “pulls” nitrogen and
moisture from the air and releases phosphorus tied up in the ground.
Research shows it can increase yields of Tomatoes, Hemp, Flowers,
Cannabis by up to 40 percent! This greatly reduces need for
commercial fertilizers and irrigation…Look at the difference…

16. Taking into consideration the
current pandemic, what initial
challenges did you face, and how did
you drive your company to sustain
operations while ensuring the safety
of your employees at the same time?
We immediately told all employees
who could, to stay and work from
home. Although we needed to update
our ‘remote’ capability systems, this
worked better than I had expected for
the electrical, mechanical, software
engineering departments. It also
worked well for our many people
performing phone service.
We then divided our manufacturing
area into widespread sections of ‘work
cells’ to keep people as far apart as
possible. So far, we have, for the most
part, avoided workplace COVID-19
infections.
What would be your advice to
budding entrepreneurs who aspire to
venture into the bioenergy solutions
market?
Be ‘mentally’ ready for everyone you
know to call you a ‘fool’. In fact, it is
interesting that in the case of my very
most profitable and industry-changing
inventions and technologies, the
so-called ‘experts’ told me, “Don’t you
know you can’t do that? It will never
work.”
My problem now is that since I have
been around this development ‘merry
go round’ so many times – when I now
hear ‘you fool’ – I actually think to
myself... Great, this is going to be very
profitable and world-changing!
Related to this, never give up. When
discouraged, dust yourself off and keep
moving forward, even though it can be
incredibly ‘lonely’ at times.
How do you envision scaling EES’s
operations and offerings in 2021?
I truly believe Easy Energy Systems
Inc. has the patented modular
technology needed to cure the problem
of climate change in the world. Where
needed, we have licensed cutting-edge
technologies from others. I think of
Easy Energy Systems Inc. as if it was
the company ‘Lego’.
My patents are around its use of many
different process modules, all working
together in unison – much like a band
conductor leads a band of many
different musicians. While we
ourselves have patents on various
cutting edge ‘Lego Block Colors’, we
need the technologies and
enhancements of others (just like other
New Modular Nano Bubble Technology
This modular system places billions of oxygen nano bubbles in the
water. This can instantly clean up wastewater with NO expensive
membranes. Notice how it can clean up entire mine tailing ponds in
minutes!
It can similarly clean up large ag manure lagoons to quickly create
clean water for irrigation. The reason this works is that just like
distillation (which uses heat to reduce surface tension and cause
product separation) the physics of nano bubbles is that the smaller
and smaller you create a bubble, you also reduce surface tension
but with much less energy than using heat energy. Membranes are
really just fancy ‘oil filters’ that then plug up and are expensive to
replace. Nano bubbles are the economical solution!
It also can be used to inject Oxygen Nano Bubbles into water
consumed by animals. We are finding animals can gain additional
oxygen in their blood streams than was possible via only the lungs
A test was done on 1 million chickens and death loss was reduced
by 95 percent and growth increased by 20 percent. Similar results
found with a test at a fish farm. This all makes sense as oxygen in
air millions of years ago was at 35 percent level.
Today, the earth has a 21 percent oxygen saturation – only 21
percent! We all DIE at 19.5 percent. Thus, is it little wonder that our
lungs (designed by God) for 35 percent oxygen level, with the
smallest disease, cannot get our bodies enough oxygen into the
blood stream. It appears that nano bubbles injected into the water
that animals drink helps solve this. We are now doing research tests
on Pigs.

17. instruments in a band, to truly make
the ‘music’ of solving climate change).
As an example, we can turn a dead tree
that would have otherwise burned in
the forest – into liquid sugar. We have
patented technologies that can convert
solid dry waste byproducts into readily
useable liquids- without the addition of
water.
We can convert the green waste into a
valuable soil amendment that can
increase crop yields by up to 40%. We
are now testing a technology to convert
seaweed into a valuable feed
amendment to remove 82% of the
greenhouse gases of cows. We have
recently licensed the right to use a
nanobubble technology to be able to
instantly clean up dirty water and/or
enhance animal growth.
We have licensed another technology
that can sequesters 50,000 tons of
carbon per year. Another technology
can convert corn into a valuable
product worth up to $10 per bushel of
corn. Lastly, we have licensed a
technology that can convert biomass
into a coal additive that will allow
existing coal-fired power plants to keep
operating and still meet the Paris
accords.
While the last five years have been a
tough political and investor climate for
green energy companies such as us, we
are now feeling a renewed invigoration
for our products.
In preparation for the massive
onslaught of opportunities we are
feeling, I am in the process of
completing a reverse merger so we can
become a full publicly traded company
for those who are interested in helping
us on our journey can participate
financially. With this, we then expect to
bring in 400 people to ramp up the
manufacturing activities of our
factory-built modular systems.
Over the years, Easy Energy Systems has received
various awards, including:
Ÿ Technology Leader of the Year Award for the State Of
MN
Ÿ Inc 500 award as one of the 500 fastest-growing
companies in the USA
Ÿ Numerous US Ag Engineering Awards for various
developed technologies.
Ÿ One of 4 ‘Top Small Business Leaders in the Nation’
as awarded by the US Congress
Ÿ Asked to testify on our technology at the White House
Ÿ Asked to testify on our technology at the US
Congress
Ÿ The software I designed was what stopped the mad
cow disease a number of years ago in only 24 hours.
Ÿ Recipient of the ‘Fire Starter Award’ as one of the
‘Top 12 Most World-Changing Ideas on the Planet’,
as selected by 4,000 scientists. (Interestingly, a
company called "Tesla" received the award just one
Exhibiting True Excellence
A photo of Mark Gaalswyk, Founder and CEO
explaining the EES modular technology:

20. Robotization of manufacturing operations is the next
step towards industrial revolution. Robots can
operate heavy or complex tasks, small chores, and
risky operations according to your commands with the press
of a button. The prospects of this idea would interest many,
but then reality will hit, and one may ask, "Is this really
possible using today's technology?”
For robots to function autonomously or even perform
smaller tasks, thousands or even more complicated code
lines need to be developed. In such circumstances, it is
more likely that people opinionate that robotics-based
automation is a complicated road to walk on. Though this is
the case, robotic automation can transform every industry
and take production scales to the next level.
Several big and small corporations have already started
employing robots to automate their daily operations. The
difficulty arises when there is a need to upgrade robots'
software to meet the updated hardware requirements. The
re-coding of such upgrades could take days or months to
complete. During which the work could get strangled or
slowed down. Solving these challenges is the Augmentus
Pte Ltd.
The idea of Augmentus came to Daryl Lim You Quan
(Co-founder) and his co-founder colleagues from their
personal experiences and pain points. Before Augmentus,
they led teams to develop robotics solutions for multi-
national companies. They had to invest incalculable hours
in programming and integrating different robots and
equipment deployed for commercial projects. It encouraged
them to build an intuitive, graphical robotics platform that
simplifies and unifies the development and operation of
industrial robots.
Optimizing Industrial Robots in Minutes
Augmentus is an AI-robotics software company. It offers
the first fully autonomous digital twin creation and robot
motion planning system. The platform's simplicity enables
even non-technical users to program industrial robots in
minutes instead of months.
The platform's intuitive graphical interface and proprietary
technology eliminates the need for coding and CAD files in
robot teaching. Users can 3D scan their work cells, plot
robot waypoints, or select from a library of templates. And,
Augmentus's software promises to generate the most
optimized robot paths while checking for singularity,
reachability, and collision avoidance.
Over the years, the company has formed partnerships with
the world's leading robot manufacturers and automation
providers to empower manufacturers to recoup ROI faster
by lowering the time, cost, and skill barriers in industrial
automation. Its clients have already experienced a 70% cost
reduction and a 10x increase in deployment times across a
wide variety of industrial applications.
Solving the Challenges of Industrial Robotics
Programming robots to perform specific tasks requires
massive amounts of code and programmers with very
specific, in-demand skill sets. With the severe difficulty and
heavy fragmentation present in conventional robot
programming, different robot manufacturers require the use
their respective proprietary languages and require high
coding expertise.
As the existing automation processes require system
integrators to develop custom solutions due to the
fragmented modules, there is 75% of the lifetime costs of
each robot being software and programming related. This
problem is further exacerbated in high-mix workflows
where the component part or process changes frequently,
requiring repeated robot reprogramming and teaching.
In order to solve this perennial problem, the use of AI and
smart automation is crucial and intelligence in automation
solutions is needed to dynamically adjust to rapid changes
in production processes and part to part variation. "We use
such technologies in our platform where the system is able
to quickly adapt to changes in parts and processes through
3D scanning while our proprietary technologies around
auto-calibration and auto-path generation instantaneously
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21. generates robot programming without the need for
technical expertise," says Daryl.
Conquering The COVID-19 Challenge
COVID-19 presented several key challenges for the
Augmentus team. Daryl expresses, "As a robotics company,
we needed to do site demos and integrations. Safe
distancing restrictions have increased our lead times. To
ensure the safety of our employees, we have converted 80%
of our demos and integrations to virtual, drastically
reducing the risk of contagion."
The Future of The Automation Industry
The future of automation will be more focused on flexibility
and collaboration. There has been an increasing trend
towards soft automation, with more SMEs and MNCs
having high-mix workflows that require automation. Such
changes in processes have always been a shortcoming of
conventional automation that is more suited to low-mix,
high-volume operations. When we asked Daryl about the
Augmentus is an
AI-robotics platform
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22. automation industry's post-pandemic future, he answered,
"With advances in technologies around AI and robotics, a
new paradigm shift in automation is likely to ensue in the
coming years, enabling the mass adoption of robotics and
automation globally.”
Showing the Way to Budding Entrepreneurs
Working in the robotics industry for years, Daryl has
personally conquered so many challenges that occurred
while making robots. When asked about what advice he
would like to give to aspirants in the robotics industry, he
puts, "The most important thing for budding entrepreneurs
is to deeply understand and empathize with their target
audience. This will allow your team to identify a niche and
build a go-to-market strategy around that niche.”
"There are many problems around the world, and with
limited resources and time, it is important to be focused and
have a clear direction," concludes Daryl
Plans of Expansion for 2022 and Beyond
Augmentus has wide-ranging plans for scaling its
operations in different parts of the world, commenting on
the progress of expanding its reach in coming years. Daryl
said, "We have scaled beyond Singapore and have begun
deploying in countries such as Germany, Denmark, Japan,
and the USA.”
"We are doubling down on global expansions in 2022 with
remote teams to support the increasing demand for easy
and rapid automation," he added.
Daryl Lim You Quan is the Co-founder of Augmentus, and
together with his co-founders, Yong Shin, and Voon Foo, he
has built the company to become one of the leading
players in the robo cs so ware space.
Daryl is a radical opportunist who is always on the lookout
for thought-provoking talks and prac cal skills that will help
him broaden his cogni ve awareness. By pu ng himself at
the vanguard of the fourth industrial revolu on, he hopes
to create a sustainable future that is interes ng and
mo va ng for the next genera on.
Awards and Achievements
Winner of IEEE STARS Award 2021
Winner of IMDA Techblazer Award 2021.
Winner of Corporate Innova on Challenges Such As:
Fujitsu Accelerator Programme
Hyundai & Kia's Accelerate the Future Challenge
The A*STAR Advanced Manufacturing startup
challenge.
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24. What do you think the world will look like in 10
years? Imagine what changes would come in
people's lives? And how will these changes
transform the world?
To answer these questions, one will have to look at how
things have changed in the past ten years. Anyone can
easily tell that so many transformations have taken place
across the globe. Today's changes are brought about by the
tech industry and businesses working together. It has
resulted in a revolutionary shift in the way the world works.
It can be said that technology will play a major role in the
future too. Depending on the technological innovations,
businesses will rewrite the way things work in the world in
the coming decade. The last decade was more about
businesses getting their hands on various technology
solutions for enhancing their operations. This decade,
starting from the year 2020, is more about merging
technological advancement with machines to bring
automation into the industrial arena.
Many corporations have been pushing for automation in
their everyday operations since the start of the COVID-19
pandemic. The reasons for this drive are numerous.
Increased competition, meeting supply demands, speeding
up operations, reducing human errors, safety, etc., are some
of the main reasons for enterprises to opt for automation.
Based on the type of business, the automation trends are
shaping up and h he most prominent automation trends are
listed below.
Cloud Computing
The year 2021 has emerged as one of the most significant
years for cloud computing platforms. A recent study
conducted by the Infosys Knowledge Institute of 1000 high-
tech and manufacturing companies observed that the core
shift has taken place in manufacturing strategy during the
past year.
Businesses have rapidly started adopting cloud computing
technology as a key strategy for the way forward. It is
projected by experts that the future of cloud networks and
embedded systems will be interlinked in the coming years.
There will be a significant increase in efficiency, mobility,
business productivity, and capability because of cloud
computing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Making the most out of data is the goal of every company
these days. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can
improve human understanding of unstructured data in better
ways. AI is helping manufacturers recognize the trends in
industrial data.
This data can be used further by professionals to make data-
driven manufacturing decisions. AI is helping companies
with better inventory management, supply chain visibility,
asset tracking, accuracy, etc.
Machine Learning (ML)
Machine learning, or ML, is a subset of AI. It is an
algorithmic framework that learns automatically from
experience. Businesses are looking to incorporate ML into
their manufacturing process so that high-scale production
can be achieved with speed. Also, ML would prove to be
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26. more efficient in reducing human errors in the manufactur-
ing process.
The Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one more technology that
has caught the interest of industrialists across the manufac-
turing industries. It helps manufacturers connect and
monitor different components of their operations. The
combined power is helping industries generate valuable
data insights that can be used to upgrade, optimize, and
enhance every area of their production process.
Supply Chain Technology
Effective management of the supply chain is one of the
most important aspects for businesses. During the last two
years, many businesses introduced different technologies to
their supply chain management. It enabled them to
automate many processes while saving costs as well as
delivering goods to the people as per their deadlines.
With the help of advanced technology, processes like
procurement, inventory management, assembling products,
logistics, transportation, and sales are all being automated.
Co-working With Robots
The inclusion of robots in various sizes and shapes can help
manufacturers to speed up production. They can also work
better where human workers do not have access due to the
risks involved.
With time, robots are becoming more helpful in raising the
standards of production. Robots are enabling companies to
automate the key areas of manufacturing. Moreover, they
are built in such a way that they can be used for collabora-
tive work with the human workforce.
3D Printing
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, can now build parts
and products layer upon layer with the help of computer-
aided design (CAD) software. Along with this, 3D printing
is also helping in producing prototypes, models, lost-wax-
castings, or specific delicate components of the final
finished products.
Additive printing is one of the most popular trends in the
manufacturing industry as it can significantly save time and
money.
Robotic Picking
Working together, robots and humans can get things safely
done in much faster and more efficient ways. Traditional
product picking and shifting from one place to another
place wastes a lot of time. With the help of automated smart
robots, this issue can be solved. As robots are being built to
be capable of handling companies' logistics operations, they
can smartly pick the products and assemble them at the
desired locations.
Usage of Drones
Manufacturing factories are generally spread over larger
areas and buildings. The ground robots cannot be used to
shift the material as there are so many chances of interfer-
ence. To tackle this issue, drones can be more effective.
Drones can help industries move their materials or products
from one location to another in minutes.
Also, drones are currently being commercially used for
delivering products to customers' doorsteps. And with time,
they can become more useful for industries to automate
their operations efficiently.
The Use of AR, VR, and MR Technology
The popularity of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality
(VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technology are rising in
different industries. They support professionals to access
the complex manufacturing process more closely by
providing a virtual or mixed reality environment.
Also, these technologies give corporations the ability to
pre-plan every process in detail. One can walk through
every minute factor using AR/VR/MR technologies so that
everything goes smoothly at the time of the actual
manufacturing process. AR, VR, and MR will play a
significant role in helping industries on their automation
journey in the coming years.
The Bottom Line
All in all, it can be said that various advanced automation
tools have started to emerge since the beginning of this
decade. However, the automation trends mentioned above
are just entering industries on a broad scale, and they have a
long way to go.
It will be interesting to see how these technology tools
collaborate with the human workforce in the coming years
to bring efficiency to industrial operations. In the end, all
these technologies were developed by humans, and they are
expected to empower people to achieve new milestones.
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28. Technology has emerged as a blessing, making our
life easier and simple, and robotics is one of the
significant examples. Even during the pandemic,
robotics and automation has provided excellent results in
every field whether it is healthcare, education, or logistics.
One prominent European leader in the robotics space is
Axyn Robotique, promoting the concept of 'Robotics for
Human'.
In the following interview, Frank Anjeaux the Founder
and CEO sheds light on the company's journey, the current
industry scenario, and his vision for the company's future.
Please brief our audience about Axyn Robotique, its
USPs, and how it is currently positioned as a leading
provider of automation solutions.
Axyn Robotique is a French-based start-up created around
the project of proposing innovative robotic solutions to the
many. The whole DNA of the company is written around
the objective of creating real usage value rather than
sophisticated but purposeless technical objects.
We have therefore designed our products only after in-depth
consultation with real players in various fields such as
Education, Health, or Industry 4.0 sectors. Axyn is today
one of the prominent European leaders in telepresence
robots. We intend to reach very soon a similar position in
the intelligent logistic robots offering.
Tell us more about the products and services through
which you have ascertained your stronghold within the
automation space.
Today we offer to the European market two main types of
robotic solutions:
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All these products are entirely designed and manufactured
at Axyn's premises near Aix-en-Provence in the South of
France. They all have in common their high versatility. As a
matter of fact, we take the benefits of our fully modular
robot base to custom-build a version for each specific
application.
This is how we have developed Edmo to meet specific
needs around the education sector in conjunction with the
French Ministry of Education. A version of Ubbo Expert
was developed to meet the need of the fast-growing
Industry 4.0 has been elaborated with Capgemini or
another one was proposed to meet the specific need in
senior houses and various players of the silver
economy.
There are as of date over 800 robots in action in
those various fields. One of our strongholds on the
automation market today is the capacity of Axyn
to merge both our strong points such as
telepresence and autonomous robot into one
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29. Frank Anjeaux
Founder and CEO
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30. single combined solution that offers a unique ability to
create unprecedented usage value in several different
applications.
Being an experienced leader, share your opinion on why
the adoption of technologies such as AI and machine
learning is necessary for the automation services
industry and how you have leveraged these technologies
to deliver your products/services/solutions?
The adoption of AI and machine learning technologies is
not a necessity, at least today. Several manufacturing
processes and industries fundamentally do not need
artificial intelligence. It is therefore essential for the success
of this transition not to go overboard in wanting to switch to
all "AI".
On the other hand, its paced and careful introduction can
revolutionize the industrial world as it is today. The
important factors on which it is necessary to impact are the
arduousness of human work and the cost of labor. AI with
robotics can go a long way to improving this.
Today, the low cost of labor has allowed countries like
China to develop tremendously, becoming in a few decades'
major world economic players. This has not been without
causing significant ecological problems, a considerable
reduction in the industrial activity in Europe and North
America, and therefore economic dependence vis-à-vis
these same countries.
Artificial intelligence coupled with mechatronic devices
such as robots allows and will increasingly allow the
performance of automatic tasks. This automation will lead
to considerable reductions in labor costs.
But this transition must be made in a thoughtful way by
focusing on tasks that have a significant ROI and those that
have no real added value, such as repetitive, daunting,
and/or dangerous tasks. It is indeed necessary to consider
the human side.
The use of artificial intelligence and automation should not
have the objective of replacing man but of relieving him in
his daily life. Otherwise, the use of AI could cause more
problems than it solves, such as unemployment.
If these considerations are considered, artificial intelligence
will revolutionize the global industry. For example, it will
be possible for a small company to acquire a multi-tasking
industrial system capable of carrying out in-situ what today
requires several processes carried out by several
manufacturers and hence further reduce costs.
It will thus be possible to produce industrial products as
easily as prototypes. The number of parts to be
manufactured can then be less impacting on their unit price.
Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, what challenges
did you face, and how are you currently driving your
company to sustain operations while ensuring the safety
of your employees?
COVID-19 is at the same time an opportunity and a
challenge for us. It is an opportunity in the way that it has
stressed the need for efficient long-distance communication
media actively helping to maintain social and professional
links and interaction without physical presence.
Our telepresence robots are currently helping many patients
to connect with their distant families and many distant
workers to interact with their distant companies and
colleagues. As far as internal organization is concerned,
although we remain a relatively small-scale company
COVID has been a challenge.
We have implemented all regulatory safety measures (and
beyond) and did not experience a significant impact on our
production flow. Some of our components and parts have
suffered delays in deliveries but not to the extent of
significantly impacting the production cycle.
It must be pointed out that we have received large and very
helpful support from both public and private sector
partners/vendors that have greatly helped Axyn in those
difficult periods.
What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs
who aspire to venture into the automation solutions
niche?
The crucial point is not to neglect the industrialization
phase. With today's tools such as 3D printers, easily
programmable and inexpensive electronic boards, it has
become very easy to go from an idea to a working
prototype.
This has allowed many innovative solutions to emerging
and has helped the creation of many startups. This ease of
implementation has nevertheless had a negative effect on
some entrepreneurs who believe that, if their system works,
it is then enough to sell it.
However, industrialization, which is the intermediate stage
between the two phases (creation and market introduction),
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31. is essential for the success of the project. It optimizes the
product to allow profitable manufacturing in greater or
lesser quantities.
This can generate tooling and manufacturing costs that must
be considered in the ROI. Besides that, there is the
normative aspect that should not be overlooked, especially
in automation. The safety of people, the materials used, the
actual usages are factors to be considered for the success of
the project.
How do you envision scaling your company's operations
and offerings in 2022?
The year 2022 will be a scale changer for Axyn. The Lobo
range of autonomous robots will enter its first full
production year with a serial version to be released in the
market.
Several large projects that were maturing in 2020 and 2021
with prestigious partners such as Orange (French Telecom
operator), Capgemini, Schneider Electric, and several
others will reach their full potential in this coming year.
This will lead to a significant increase in both volumes of
production and obliviously turn-over.
In the Health sector:
The direct testimony of Dr. Pascal Meyer, Anesthetist
Physician at Forcilles Hospital (Cognacq-Jay Foundation):
"We used the Ubbo robot in the post-intensive care
rehabilitation unit during confinement when family visits
were prohibited. Our patients are people with a
tracheostomy. Most have a physical disability that does not
allow them to hold a smartphone. We have allowed many
people to see their loved ones and have expanded the
possibilities of visitation. A videoconference was made over
3500 kilometers. This visit would never have happened
without the robot. It has many advantages:
- First: Ease
For family and caregivers, it is easy to use. The family
opens an account on the AXYN website. The procedure is
very simple. The role of caregivers is limited to turning on
the robot and bringing it to the patient's room.
Videoconferencing does not generate an additional
workload that would affect other activities.
- Second: The practical aspect of communication.
Indeed, the head of the robot is placed at a suitable height
for a bedridden person or in an armchair. So that the sick
person does not have to make the effort of turning his head
to direct his sight. The robot's head is mobile, controlled by
the pilot, in our case, the family. It is much more practical
than fixed head solutions that require human intervention to
control the screen."
In the industry sector:
Feedback from Virginie Rigaudeau, Hub Manager at
Schneider Electric (France):
"We use the Ubbo robot for formal or informal interaction
between distant users and factory team members on a
regular basis in many different locations within the factory.
It can be internal users, distant customers. They can enjoy a
truly immersive interaction with the personnel on-site."
"We really have the feeling that the distant user is with us.
A real nice and simple solution for an actual interaction
between the local team and distant users.”
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There were the days when industrialization was a
synonym of textile industry only, and the artisans
were the industrial workers. But the industrial
revolution invented power looms, and the juggernaut of
automation began its journey. Back-to-back industrial
revolutions transformed the medieval world into the
modern age. The first three of them, i.e., the steam engine,
age of science, and mass production, accelerated the world-
saving human efforts, costs, and money.
However, the juggernaut of automation kept traveling, and
today, it has reached the station, where the globe is digital –
the fourth industrial revolution. Human efforts were first
replaced by animals, animals replaced by machines, and to
control these machines, robots arrived. Today, these robots
are deployed in every sector, especially to perform repeti-
tive tasks. These robots can move in six degrees of freedom
and operate in X, Y, and Z planes.
In this fast-paced world, time is money, and these robots
help to save time by performing repetitive tasks. However,
they follow the path which is inscribed by the software
programs. Looking at the growing market, many companies
started to provide software to automate robotic movements.
Fizyr is one such company that offers a standardized
software product, based on artificial intelligence, that
allows robots to cope with high variation of objects in
automated picking and placing applications.
In our quest for ‘The 10 Most Disruptive Automation
Companies to Watch’, Mr. Herbert Ten Have, CEO of
Fizyr, shared his endeavor with us. He elaborated on the
company's work culture and the future aspects. Following
are the details of the interview:
Please brief our audience about Fizyr, its USPs, and how
it is currently positioned as a leading provider of
automation solutions.
Fizyr designs, builds, and installs a standardized computer-
vision software that detects unknown objects varying in
shape, size, colour, material or stacking. Its robust algo-
rithms provide over 100 applicable grasp poses each
second, including classification to handle objects differ-
ently, while performing quality controls. Just as the camera
and gripper are the eyes and arms of a robot, the vision
software is the brain that analyzes the image and directs the
robot to move accordingly. Fizyr is trusted as a strategic
partner by global leading integrators, thanks to its fully
scalable and proven software-only product, for which we
provide full insight and control to install, manage, update
and support. We empower system integrators to build
cutting-edge solutions for the industry’s end users, in
multiple high-demand industries, such as e-commerce,
micro-fulfilment, parcel handling and more.
Tell us more about the products and services through
which you have ascertained your stronghold within the
automation space.
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35. In such a rapidly growing market, logistics companies
expect robots to perform their tasks as predicted and agreed.
Applying Fizyr’s product is a strategic choice for which we
provide full insight and control to install, manage, update
and support. We license a standardized product for auto-
mated picking, placing, and stacking to system integrators
and end users. Our computer-vision software is trained with
a unique dataset with millions of images of challenging
logistics environments, proposing the best possible grasp
poses. Applied in production all over the world, it empow-
ers the robotic automation of leading system integrators and
end users, in online retail, warehousing and parcel services.
Fizyr’s software is also hardware agnostic, giving clients
the freedom to choose the best camera, robot, and gripper
for their automated picking cell. We believe in the value of
Fizyr’s independency and want our clients to be able to use
open standards and choose their hardware to assemble the
best possible picking cells.
Although the company purely focuses on software, Fizyr
also licenses the designs to modify, 3D print, and assemble
its proprietary gripper. This gripper can handle challenging
situations, ensuring ease in integration with any robot in a
picking cell.
Being an experienced leader, share your opinion on why
the adoption of technologies such as AI and machine
learning is necessary for the automation services
industry and how you have leveraged these technologies
to deliver your products/services/solutions?
The items and parcels tend to have a huge variation in terms
of sizes, materials, colors, and placement, which traditional
logistics systems cannot account for. In e-commerce, there
are millions of SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), thousands of
which cannot be programmed. Therefore, the adoption of
technologies such as AI and deep learning has the potential
to change the face of the industry.
Fizyr’s neural network is trained to classify an object,
strategize the pressure required to pick it, and propose the
best possible grasp poses to singulate it from bulk. One of
the initial projects managed by Fizyr in 2017 involved
enabling robots to work 24/7 and fold up to 720 towels per
hour with Laundry Robotics. Fizyr’s computer vision
algorithms were able to propose over 100 grasp poses each
second on unknown objects.
Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, what challenges
did you face, and how are you currently driving Fizyr to
Fizyr’s CEO, Herbert Ten Have, joined Fizyr
(previously called Delft Robotics) in January
2017. Delft Robotics started as a robotics integra-
tor. Within a month of Herbert’s arrival, the
company won the prestigious Amazon Picking
Challenge. This led to the company pivoting
towards a deep-learning computer vision soft-
ware-only product and re-branding to Fizyr.
Herbert is an innovative business leader with
more than three decades of experience in building
high-tech products and services.
Thanks to his expertise and knowledge of the
industry, he geared the brilliant Delft Robotics
team towards success, thus, leading to an unprec-
edented impact on the automation industry. He
proactively engaged the company in recognizing
industry problems and solving them while staying
committed to building the best vision software
product and provide cutting-edge robotic picking
solutions for the logistics industry.
About the Leader
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36. sustain operations while ensuring the safety of your
employees?
One of the major challenges faced by the company was the
termination of a project by an Italy-based client due to the
dire consequences at the start of the pandemic. Conse-
quently, other clients hesitated to continue project opera-
tions as they required hardware components, such as
cameras, grippers, robots, etc., to conduct research and
development. The first few months were uncertain, and
later, several clients saw the opportunity for growth in in e-
commerce, micro-fulfilment and parcel handling.
Those clients motivated Fizyr to scale up its processes even
faster and offer robotic solutions to the dynamic industry.
Meanwhile, the Fizyr team was working from home and
would only work from the office if absolutely necessary. At
that time, the huge office space in the pandemic was
reserved for specific purposes. With the restrictions easing
down in the Netherlands and the high vaccination rate,
people are moving back to the office on a flexible basis.
What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs
who aspire to venture into the automation solutions
niche?
Herbert highlights the importance of validating assump-
tions, pushing the product to the market, and creating value
for the clients in the quickest way possible. The quicker the
entrepreneurs identify opportunities, the better they get to
approach the clients in an early phase and acquire the
market before facing any consequences later. Understand-
ing the requirements of the clients from the beginning can
stimulate company growth, improve partnerships, and help
build relations with potential clients.
How do you envision scaling Fizyr’s operations and
offerings in 2021?
The fast growth of e-commerce and parcel handling has
exacerbated the human labor shortage, which is expected to
keep rising. As a response, an increasing number of
companies have started to adopt robotic automation and
implement solutions for automating picking and placing
applications both in e-fulfilment and parcel handling. We
believe we have solved one of the biggest challenges in
logistics and we hope to empower as many integrators and
end users worldwide as possible, in an effort to relieve the
pressures of the industry. The product and market are ready,
so we plan to scale exponentially in the upcoming years,
reflecting such a rapid growth.
Fizyr remains dedicated to training, upskilling, and helping
employees thrive in the fast-moving industry of AI and
logistics. The company aims to focus on predictable and
scalable processes to resolve challenging situations and
contribute to the industry.
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Automation. Machines are doing more and more
tasks as work grows. Workers become more
estranged from one another and alienated from their labor -
whether it is factory robots assembling vehicles or
algorithms that detect ailments and find you the cutest cat
pictures on the Internet.
It is easy to understand how this could put workers at risk;
th
the 20 century is littered with examples of humans losing
their employment to faster, more efficient robots. What is
less evident is the potential this gives for the left to use
technology to the advantage of the world.
While Automation has advanced at breakneck speed in
recent years, it does not appear to be slowing down. As we
automate more corporate activities, we are approaching an
intriguing long-term paradox: despite a century of
developing machines to do our work for us, the number of
individuals with jobs has continually increased over the past
125 years. And that is beneficial for business as well as the
human workers.
Business Benefits From Work Automation
RPA (Robotic Process Automation) enables businesses to
disrupt their sectors by surpassing the competition and
investing in innovation. Organizations should instead focus
their emphasis on harnessing their in-house human
expertise to develop answers. That will enable them to rise
to market leadership by outsourcing the tedious, repetitive,
but necessary admin-type chores to bots.
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40. This form of disruption is beneficial to the economy as a
whole. It will produce new types of labour that we have yet
to envision replacing the old jobs that have been displaced
by technological development. Automation savings will be
invested in more research and development to generate new
goods and services, resulting in more job opportunities
overall.
The introduction of ATMs is a good example of this.
Automatic teller machines (ATMs) were first launched 45
years ago with the intention of replacing human bank
tellers. But, as we all know, it did not happen. Instead,
ATMs made it less expensive for banks to open new
branches, which they did, and the count of bank tellers in
the US has increased from 2000 to 2010.
What Does the Future Hold for Automation?
In dystopian films like Terminator, pessimistic predictions
about what the future of labor automation could mean for
humanity come to fruition. Beyond that, there is a widely
held but incorrect belief that widespread Automation will
supplant human workers.
However, such predictions are unlikely to come true.
Because Automation's future depends on its ability to blend
with how humans work, Automation will increasingly be
used to assist people in working smarter rather than harder.
It will automate the boring, repetitive, and tiresome tasks
that humans today perform, allowing workers to focus on
higher-level tasks involving creativity, interpretation, and
empathy.
Humans Are Still Required In The Workforce
Humans still have the upper hand when it comes to human
contact, or "soft skills," as they are now known. Active
listening, speaking, critical thinking, reading
comprehension, and monitoring are the top five most in-
demand job abilities in Canada from 2019 to 2022,
according to a recent analysis from the Royal Bank of
Canada (RBC) titled "Humans Wanted."
Humans are still more reliable and efficient than technology
when it comes to these critical labor skills. Maintaining and
strengthening your abilities in these fundamental areas will
serve you well even if you change industries halfway
through your career.
Employee retraining or "reskilling" is not only more cost-
effective for employers but also promotes employees' long-
term personal development. Looking ahead a few years,
education will become even more important than today. As
technology advances, the existing labour must continually
reinvent themselves, "reskilling" on the job to learn new
systems.
Younger generations must learn legacy systems as well as
to adapt to evolving technologies as the older generation
departs. Job-hopping is becoming increasingly popular, so
any programme that promotes employee training, personal
growth, and education will provide employees with another
reason to stay.
Final Thoughts
The left will have to grapple with the reality of Automation,
which is something that the entire globe is grappling with.
Workers around the world are facing a few troubles in
adapting, but there is a bright side to working along with
Automation.
Automation isn't on its way; it's already here. There is a
future in which everyone benefits from the fruits of
mechanized labor. To bring about this better world, the left
must provide a vision of the future that we desire.
We need to plan for that future. Our legislators must ensure
that everyone shares equally in the reward. A better world is
possible, and it is only around the corner, but we must all
act if we want to enjoy it.
- Rahul Thakar
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42. Evidently, the digital transformation has opened the
doors to numerous opportunities and possibilities
for various sectors, and the logistic industry has not
been devoid of these digital changes. Today, the
inefficiencies in the processes have been reduced, more
packages are being delivered, production has become cost-
effective, and whatnot.
All these changes come down to where all the goods are
stored. And thus, driving digitization in the warehouse
becomes of utmost importance. If the question arises, how
can it be implemented, doks.innovation has got all the
answers.
doks.innovation is breaking new grounds in warehouse
management with inventiveness and pioneering spirit.
We at Insights Success caught up with Mike Becker, the co-
founder and Senior Software Developer, and Christian
Sproedt, the Strategic Sales Manager, to learn more about
doks.innovation..
Below are the highlights of the interview:
Please brief our audience about your company, its USPs,
and how it is currently positioned as a leading provider
of automation solutions.
doks.innovation GmbH was Founded in 2017 located in the
central EU (Kassel, Germany). In doks, about 30 employees
are working in two central product lines (Inventory and
Summary).
We build and provide autonomous solutions for
intralogistics. Yearning to digitize the world of logistics, it
aspires to contribute to the growing Industry 4.0. The world
of logistics is constantly facing new challenges. Our
products are strived to solve these challenges and
revolutionize the world of logistics. The products aim to
drive the supply chain efficiently with autonomous
technologies, decrease expenses, and increase safety in
warehouses.
Tell us more about the products and services through
which you have ascertained your stronghold within the
automation space.
In doks, there are two product lines - inventory and
summary
Inventory XL:
Autonomous inventory management system within a
warehouse (pallet rack) consisting of an
AMR (autonomous mobile robot) and a drone. The drone
and the AMR relate to a powerline to provide five hours
operation time of the system. The only element which needs
to be put as fixed infrastructure is the charging station.
Summary Sky:
Outside drone and software system for inventory
management of block storage or overview of large storage
areas (empties). With the help of drone images and artificial
intelligence different types of crates can be recognized and
counted.
Summary Gate:
The gate creates all necessary documentation and damage
detection of an object moving through the gate. It provides
all the solutions to Inbound and Outbound control, a sensor
system for automated damage detection, loading scans,
incoming goods inspections, conveyor systems plausibility,
and completeness check.
Summary Ceiling:
Optical inventory system for block storage in indoor
warehouses. Multiple battery-powered camera modules are
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44. attached under the ceiling to create a top view of the
warehouse. With the help of images and artificial
intelligence different types of crates can be recognized and
counted.
Brief us about the featured person(s), their journey in
the industry, and how they have contributed towards
the company's success.
Mike Becker: I am the Co-Founder of doks with 8 years of
experience in the drone industries mainly involved in
Software and Hardware. I am leading the software team to
create the best solution for autonomous inventory
management on the market.
Christian Sproedt: I am Christian Sproedt, have been in the
logistics industry for 10 years. Master of Technical
Logistics and hold positions in project planning and
purchasing, last position is head of contract logistics at
consulting company.
I am totally convinced that logistics must be more open to
new technologies and autonomous solutions. Logistics
service providers not doing this will vanish from the
market.
Being an experienced leader, share your opinion on why
the adoption of technologies such as AI and machine
learning is necessary for the automation services
industry and how you have leveraged these technologies
to deliver your products/services/solutions?
It is getting tougher and tougher to get staff to do many
jobs, especially in the logistics industry. With AI and
machine learning many tasks can be automated and the staff
can focus on more valuable tasks. Especially the
stocktaking process is a non-valuable task, which must be
done. Automize these tasks leave the staff more room to add
value to the company.
Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, what challenges
did you face, and how are you currently driving your
company to sustain operations while ensuring the safety
of your employees?
Covid was and is challenging as the option for testing at
warehouses and presenting our products are mainly
reduced. Therefore, the development of new features was
slowed down as the testing time was reduced.
On the other hand, it is a great opportunity to show and
prove that automated and autonomous solutions have a
huge benefit – as no one must attend. Overall, we would say
the autonomous concepts become more accepted during the
pandemic phase.
What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs
who aspire to venture into the automation solutions
niche?
Find a process to automate and just try it. There is always
room to improve processes.
How do you envision scaling your company's operations
and offerings in 2022?
Currently, focus on nearby customers with a focus on
Central EU and the UK to have a high level of support and
end of 2022 add Scandinavia and the first oversea regions.
Central for us is that we can offer a product that does not
need daily service or support but can operate the whole year
with only a yearly check-up.
Inventory management by flexible drone is starting to
gather serious weight as a workable concept and will scale
up with each positive comment of customers using it on a
regular basis.Of course, there will be also a new feature,
which is in development. For example, we plan to detect
rack damages with the systems and do box counting.
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