en.Wedoany.com Reported - Visual Components has released version 5.1 of its factory simulation software, featuring high-precision physics simulation and scalable robot orchestration capabilities, supporting the simultaneous operation of hundreds of autonomous mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, robots, products, and personnel in a complete factory environment.
Factories are evolving towards more autonomous, interconnected, and intelligent systems. When managing the complex interactions between robots, mobile vehicles, products, material flows, control systems, and personnel across the entire production environment, manufacturers face issues such as traffic bottlenecks, collision risks, commissioning delays, programming errors, inefficient layouts, and costly redesigns without effective pre-deployment validation.
Visual Components 5.1 aims to help manufacturers simulate real-world physics, validate controller logic, and model dynamic factory operations at a higher scale and accuracy before implementing changes in practice.
Mika Anttila, Chief Technology Officer at Visual Components, stated that manufacturers are under pressure to deploy more autonomous and flexible production systems, but existing tools are proving inadequate for handling complex environments. Customers need to verify interactions between hundreds of mobile resources, robots, vehicles, products, and personnel before installing any equipment. Version 5.1 provides a more scalable and realistic validation method.
The new version brings improvements in three areas. In simulation, it supports hundreds of AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots) and AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) operating in the same environment, with advanced collision avoidance capabilities, delivering up to 10 times better performance than previous versions, making large-scale mobile robot scenario validation a reality for the first time. In connectivity, it adds support for Allen-Bradley PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) and provides new virtual commissioning plugins for Nachi and Epson robots, allowing more real production systems to be integrated into the simulation loop early in the project. For robot offline programming teams, the scripting environment has been upgraded to Python 3, replacing the old environment that limited developers in building and maintaining robot programs.
These improvements enable production managers, factory planners, and automation engineers to validate more real-world systems, mobile fleets, control logic, and robot programs before committing resources. Unlike solutions focused on automating a single aspect, Visual Components 5.1 offers a comprehensive factory simulation platform for modeling the entire factory system—from robots and material flows to personnel operations—helping organizations make data-driven decisions before investing in physical systems, reducing reliance on assumptions and manual adjustments, and fostering collaboration between engineering, operations, and management teams, leading to smoother commissioning and faster time to production.
These capabilities are particularly critical for manufacturers in automotive, electronics, logistics, and healthcare sectors transitioning to more interconnected and autonomous production. These industries are combining traditional robot automation with mobile fleets and require controller-level precision validation to mitigate system commissioning risks.
Mikko Urho, CEO of Visual Components, noted that manufacturing environments are becoming increasingly dynamic. Mobile robots, automation, and interconnected production systems bring new opportunities and new complexities. Manufacturers need confidence that plans will work in practice before investing in or modifying factory sites. Visual Components 5.1 allows manufacturers to validate complex operations early in the planning process, reducing pre-deployment risks.
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