Dassault Systèmes has taken a strategic step in the evolution of industrial automation by incorporating Ascon Qube technology, developed by Ascon Systems Holding GmbH. With this operation, the French company reinforces its position in the intelligent industrial solutions market, aimed at optimizing virtual twins of complete plants and transforming the programming of production processes.
Far from being a simple technological acquisition, the operation values a shared vision of the future of advanced manufacturing: leaving behind fragmented systems and traditional controllers to adopt dynamic software platforms, supported by AI, which allow factories to adapt agility to the challenges of the generative economy.
In current factories, each machine is a technological island. The PLCs (programmable logic controllers) are encoded individually, which makes any attempt to climb, modify or reconvert the production lines quickly. Ascon Qube’s proposal breaks with that model: its software -based approach eliminates inefficiencies and facilitates unified, flexible and modeled program for complex environments.
“With this technology, we give companies the ability to reconfigure production in real time, without the limitations imposed by closed architectures or proprietary systems,” says Dassault Systèmes team. “It is a jump to cognitive automation, in which the software learns, adapts and optimizes without constant manual intervention.”
The integration of the acquired technology redefines the programming of machines in complex factories and places the automation defined by software as the next great jump of industry 4.0.
Integration into the 3Dexperience platform
Ascon Qube technology will become part of the Ecosystem of the Mia, deployed by Dassault Systèmes globally and supported by its 3Dexperience platform. This integration will allow to offer new Experiences as a service (XAAS) that combine virtual twins, artificial intelligence and a software defined automation that operates directly on machines.
The objective is clear: maximize efficiency and reduce inactivity times in increasingly changing productive environments. “The key is not alone in automating, but in automation with intelligence, with adaptive models and faster and more precise decision making,” they point out from the company.
Beyond PLC: towards the resilient factory
One of the great challenges for the industry is to respond with agility to market variability: design changes, more frequent launches, unpredictable demands. In this context, traditional systems show their limits. Dassault Systèmes’ commitment is to replace that rigidity with an automation that evolves to the rhythm of the business.
With the incorporation of Ascon Qube, the company not only progresses towards its univ+RSES next generation, but also positions itself as a reference in a new era of manufacture, where each machine does not need to be reprogrammed from scratch, but is part of a living system, modeled and optimized by software. A promise of greater efficiency, operational resilience and cost reduction for the manufacturers of the future.
