The EXECELL project started with a kick-off meeting of both participants, KUKA and Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF), at the IFF in Magdeburg.  The meeting was used to clarify and define the technical specifications and interface definitions of the system, which are currently being further developed and refined in close-cooperation between the project participants. Furthermore, the project participant KUKA has identified use cases, which are derived from real industrial applications. On basis of that it has begun to identify potential failure modes and analyzing their effects. As seen in Figure 1, we also have begun to set up the workspace by building up a sensor system carrier. Furthermore, we mounted the KUKA LWR 4+ on a moveable workbench, as depicted in Figure 2.

Figure 1: senor-system carrier

Figure 2: KUKA LWR 4+ mounted on moveable workbench with integrated robot controller