Visual Components Debuts Next-generation Platform at FABTECH 2025
Visual Components, a global leader in simulation and robot offline programming (OLP), has officially launched its highly anticipated Visual Components 5.0 platform at FABTECH 2025. This next-generation software delivers all-in-one manufacturing simulation and advanced OLP, giving manufacturers greater speed, clarity, and control.
Designed as a fully integrated platform, Visual Components 5.0 refines digital manufacturing workflows by uniting layout design, process simulation, and virtual commissioning. The upgraded release delivers significant advancements in performance, connectivity, and customization—empowering manufacturers and system integrators to accelerate automation with confidence.
“Ultimately, version 5.0 runs faster and puts more control in the hands of users,” said Graham Wloch, Director of Business Development at Visual Components. “For engineers, production floor managers, CEOs and everyone working through the steps of digital production planning, it increases clarity of the process and confidence in the results.”
The platform’s expanded end-to-end simulation capabilities are matched with its most advanced OLP automation to date. Manufacturers can now fully leverage model-based engineering from early production planning through final execution. With built-in support for model-based definition and product manufacturing information, Visual Components 5.0 integrates seamlessly with multiple brands. Data is extracted directly from CAD files, ensuring tolerances, dimensions, and surface finishes transfer reliably to robotic programs.
“Brand-specific requirements create barriers for manufacturers or, at best, force them to use unreliable manual processes for data transfer,” Wloch added. “We eliminate the barrier to ensure tolerances, dimensions, surface finishes and additional specifications move seamlessly to the automated system.”
Additional upgrades include modern scripting support, enabling customization, task automation, and access to widely used programming libraries. For welding applications, Visual Components 5.0 provides automated parameter applications, collision-aware path solving, and compatibility with diverse welding systems.
Connectivity has also been widely expanded to support real-time simulation data across multiple hardware and robot systems. Enhanced collision geometry improves simulation accuracy, even in complex production environments.
About Visual Components
Visual Components is a leading developer of 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming (OLP) software. For more than two decades, the company has been a trusted technology partner for manufacturers worldwide. Its solutions support factory design, virtual commissioning, production planning, offline programming, personnel maximization, and more. Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Visual Components operates its North American base in Carmel, Indiana.
