Proposition

In Concert

A concert isn’t playing many parts at once, it’s every part playing together, performing at the utmost level on the most unforgiving stage, the factory floor. A concert can start small. It can start with one robot solving one problem one time and having that scale into a set of standards that support any workflow.

Mission by mission, every move is measured and makes room for the next. What looks effortless on stage is the result of careful orchestration, conducted by a system that commands coordination across every workflow.

The Idealworks Orchestration System (OS) is a system born from industry. It’s a system that listens, adapts and responds, perceives, decides and acts. It keeps time and creates rhythm between hardware and software.

It allows factories to start where they are and grow with intent, adding capability without losing coherence.

Automation doesn’t arrive all at once, it’s a performance played in many parts. When an idea works it keeps working, it becomes part of the system. It’s ready to be reused, extended and built upon, and when your automation is orchestrated with Idealworks everything moves in concert.

The factories of the future will be built for change.

Automation will be more common, more varied, and expected to scale over time. In this future, success won’t come from choosing the “right” technology once. It will come from having systems that are ready for growth, able to integrate new robots, new workflows, and new demands as they emerge.

The industry isn’t yet ready for change.

Today’s automation is piecemeal. Robots are added one by one, products are bought for specific tasks, and with each addition work becomes more disparate. Factories have no confidence that what they’re integrating is fit for the future. As they foray into automation, complexity increases. Each solution brings with it its own logic, interface, and constraints. Factories have no confidence that what they’re integrating is fit for the future. As they foray into automation, complexity increases. Each solution brings with it its own logic, interface, and constraints.If factories are going to be ready for the future, automation can’t remain fragmented. Robots, people, and systems need to work together.

They need to respond, adapt and scale together. They can’t just be integrated, they need to be orchestrated.

An Orchestration System built for the factory floor.

Automation today is often fragmented. Robots come from different vendors, systems operate in isolation, and what works at the beginning can struggle to scale. As factories grow, coordination becomes the challenge.

Idealworks OS coordinates robots, people, and systems whether those robots are built by Idealworks, delivered through partners, or already operating on site. It meets factories where they are in their automation journey, then provides a system they can grow into, one that supports experimentation, learning, and standardisation over time.

For some, that journey starts with a single robot solving a single problem. For others, it brings order to an existing fleet. As the adoption of automation increases, what works once becomes repeatable. Patterns become standards. Standards become part of the system.

When automation runs on Idealworks OS, the factory no longer operates as a collection of parts. It performs as a coordinated whole, ready to scale, ready to adapt, and built to grow.

Why this exists

Idealworks was born on the harshest stage, the factory floor of BMW. With a new investor (AGILE) and a bigger market to enter (North Amercia) we worked to articulate what we do across hardware, software, simulation and synchronicity. The result of that work is housed within this ToolKit and stems from the big idea (meme): In Concert.