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21 July 2025

Railway planning (Glossary)

Industry and Factory 4.0 Automation Digital transformation Robots Sanjay Sauldie Glossary

The term path planning belongs to the automation and Industry 4.0 category and describes the process of calculating the optimum motion sequences of machines, especially robot arms. The aim of path planning is to ensure that a robot performs a task efficiently and without colliding with obstacles.

Imagine a factory in which a robot assembles car doors on cars. The path planning determines exactly which movements the robot arm performs, in which order, and how it avoids obstacles such as other machines or people. The system analyses the environment and determines the fastest and safest way for the robot to get from point A to point B.

Thanks to modern path planning, production processes can be automated and designed more flexibly. Maintenance times and sources of error are reduced as movements are digitally simulated and optimised in advance. This increases efficiency and lowers production costs - an important building block for smart and future-proof factories.

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Sanjay Sauldie

Sanjay Sauldie is a digital strategist, speaker and developer of the transruption toolkit, which companies can use to make their digital transformation measurable, human and sustainable. With kiROI - the AI-based approach to value creation in the digital age - he helps self-employed people and companies to integrate artificial intelligence into their processes in a practical way. With his outstanding marketing strategy iROI, he has already led countless companies to greater visibility and thus more profits. He combines digital innovation with disruptive thinking models for a sustainable business strategy. He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Cologne, completed a Master of Science in Digital Disruption at the University of Salford (UK) and a Design Thinking programme at MIT/EMERITUS Singapore. As a multiple award-winning expert - including the Golden Web Award and the Innovation Award of the Initiative Mittelstand - he advises SMEs and corporations. His motto: "Digitalisation is not an end in itself - it must serve people."

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