Author: Max Falcone, Product Development Engineer

I recently jumped on the Android smartphone bandwagon after years of having a basic phone that did everything I needed it to do for me.  As many of you know the big thing with smart phones are the apps, and the phone manufactures realize this with catch phrases like “we have an app for that.” Using my new phone, I have been thumbing through these apps, researching them online, and scouring forums like a man on a mission to find out what apps will actually simplify my life.  So far, I have found one. The others are basically noise in the background. 

Today I was thumbing through YouTube to see what videos are up there and I realized that at Comau, we are in the app business too.  Just hear me out. If you want to weld doors together at blazing speeds, we have an app for that.  If you want to unload parts out of racks, we have an app for that.  If you want to pick random potato chips off a conveyor belt and sort them, we have an app for that.  

While I realize our apps will not fit in the palm of your hand, they are very real, very cool, and very available.  Now when I say “available,” I realize you can’t just download them, but chances are you see them everyday going down the road on two, four, and 18 wheels.  Our apps are flying over your head at any given time, sometimes at super sonic speeds, so you might only hear it go by.  Soon, our apps will help to create power in the form of solar energy so you and I can power our smartphones filled with apps. As a company we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to productivity assembly systems.  2010 is shaping up to have a number of great new apps added to the COMAU lineup. I’ll be sharing more soon. Stay tuned.

P.S. Comau is releasing an iPhone app! We will update you when it's ready for use.