How do autonomous robot companies - and robot integrators get to market and get to scale? They call Go West Robotics. Thanks go to Gerry Ens, CTO and Alex Irwin, CEO for joining me on #TheRobotIndustryPodcast.

We talk about customer onboarding, implementation, research, project management, software architecture, deployment, and technical needs for software at robot companies. At Go West Robotics, they have a single focus value proposition: they are able to hit the ground running creating control software and operating software in autonomous and industrial robotics. From early code to scaling code, version control and processes to go industrial.

Project management and the customer experience are of critical importance to Alex and Gerry. It is one of their differentiators. Like many successful companies, engagement early is critical.

Some of the trends that they are seeing are:

PLC and making sure that PLCs are used correctly and not over-used

Linex based development languages

Speed of development, maintainability

Cloud technologies and open source

Shoehorning complex software into PLC

HMIs

OEE on the fly, from anywhere in the cloud

If you would like to get in touch with Gerry or Alex, you can find them https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexirwin/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardens/ Their website is https://www.gowestrobotics.com/

Thanks to our Gerry Ens, Alex Irwin and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot dot com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.

Enjoy the podcast!

Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

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Key words and terms for this podcast: Autonomous robotics, automation systems software, self-driving robots, outsourced software development, machine tool companies, robotics, HMI, Industrial PC, OEE, Predictive Maintenance, Custom Software