Vention
Canvas Category Software : Engineering : Manufacturing Automation Platform
We grew up surrounded by LEGO. Beyond the bricks were budding engineers dismantling VCRs, building life-size airplanes, and designing suspension bikes from the ground up. We eventually turned our childhood hobbies into lifelong careers and experienced firsthand the first generation of CAD software, from I-DEAS and Mechanical Desktop, to Catia and Pro-Engineer. Today the process to design, simulate, procure, and commission industrial equipment is complex and slow. It’s targeted towards a small group of experts and it limits widespread adoption. We envision a world where the process to build industrial equipment is as straightforward, and enjoyable, as building with LEGO. A world where you imagine your machine in the morning and build it in the afternoon. We are pioneering an industry where agility, speed and simplicity meet industrial automation. Our mission is to make machine design accessible to everyone by re-engineering the process of designing, simulating, procuring and commissioning industrial equipment. Vention helps some of the most innovative manufacturing companies automate their production floor in just a few days. Vention’s online-first, manufacturing automation platform (MAP) enables its clients to design, automate, deploy, and operate manufacturing equipment directly from their web browser.
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Welcoming ABB Robotics to the Vention ecosystem
We’re excited to announce that ABB has joined the Vention ecosystem! Now available on Vention.com, explore the full ABB GoFa CRB15000 Series. These collaborative robots (cobots) are not only available to purchase but also fully compatible with the Vention Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP), so you can easily integrate them into your next automation project.
With ABB joining other leading robotics brands in the Vention ecosystem, such as Universal Robots and FANUC, we’re one step closer to achieving a fully robotic-agnostic platform. This means that no matter which robot you are working with, you can always stay in the same environment to design, simulate, deploy, and operate automated equipment and robot cells. This eliminates the need to learn multiple new interfaces, processes, and environments.
Vention launches MachineMotion AI, an AI-enabled automation controller for robotics and industrial applications
Vention, the company behind the cloud-based Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP), is launching an AI-enabled motion controller, MachineMotion AI. This 3rd-generation controller, built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, is designed to significantly simplify the development and deployment of robotics applications for manufacturers of all sizes.
This announcement signifies a major advancement in entering the post-PLC (programmable logic controller) era. Automated equipment—including robots, conveyors, and computer vision systems—can now be orchestrated by a single controller powering the entire machine, making it truly plug-and-play. By eliminating the traditional divide between robots and PLC programming, this architecture makes programming simpler and speeds up the deployment cycle, leading to improved ROI for manufacturers.
MachineMotion AI is compatible with leading robot brands, including Universal Robots, FANUC, and ABB. It delivers up to 3,000W of power and drives up to 30 servo motors via EtherCAT. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics, MachineMotion AI advances AI-enabled robots with NVIDIA GPU-accelerated path planning and the ability to run 2D/3D perception models trained in synthetic and physical environments.
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2 collaborative robots freeing up 10 employees per production shift
Why these businesses choose Vention
Full factory furnishing with Edwards Vacuum
Code-free Programming with Universal Robots
Collaborative robot programming with MachineLogic
Vention closes a $95M USD Series C financing
Vention, the leading digital manufacturing automation platform (MAP), announced today the closing of US$95M in Series C financing, led by existing investor, Georgian. New investor Fidelity Investment Canada ULC (certain funds) also joined the round alongside existing investors White Star Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and Bolt Ventures.
Proceeds from Series C financing will be used to grow Vention’s go-to-market, expand the company’s global distribution footprint, and accelerate the development of its hardware and software platform. The company expects to make some of those announcement’s public in September 2022 at its annual product launch event, Vention DemoDay.