Eclipse Automation has unveiled Eclipse RealitySync, a brand new immersive collaboration platform designed to assist producers consider, de-risk and scale manufacturing facility automation initiatives earlier than manufacturing programs are constructed.
Launched at Automate 2026, the platform allows producers to discover digital manufacturing environments utilizing Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional expertise, permitting engineering, operations and management groups to assessment manufacturing facility layouts, workflows and automation programs in an interactive digital setting.
In accordance with Eclipse Automation, the rising complexity of contemporary manufacturing has made conventional planning strategies comparable to drawings and static layouts much less efficient for evaluating automation investments.
Utilizing Eclipse RealitySync, producers can just about stroll manufacturing traces, assess workflows in context and collaborate with colleagues and Eclipse Automation specialists earlier than bodily programs are deployed.
“The best way producers consider automation hasn’t stored tempo with the real-world complexity of contemporary manufacturing,” stated Steve Mai, CEO of Eclipse Automation. “Groups are nonetheless making main funding choices utilizing drawings and static layouts. We imagine the way forward for manufacturing facility automation is extra immersive, collaborative, and knowledgeable.”
Eclipse Automation says the platform combines mission knowledge, folks and digital representations of bodily programs in a shared immersive setting. The corporate says the expertise is meant to assist producers establish mission dangers earlier, display the worth of automation investments earlier than implementation and assist extra versatile manufacturing planning.
By enabling engineering, operations, finance and administration groups to collaborate earlier than deployment, Eclipse Automation says organizations could make choices extra shortly, establish potential points earlier and enhance confidence in automation funding choices.
The corporate says the immersive expertise displays its experience throughout industries together with life sciences, transportation, vitality, electronics, and client and industrial merchandise, the place it develops superior automation programs for high-volume manufacturing.
