The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the KUKA Group, which acquired it in December 2017 to strengthen its intelligent-automation portfolio with hardware-neutral simulation software. Under KUKA ownership the product line continued to expand, and in October 2022 the company acquired the robotics division of Delfoi, an offline-robot-programming vendor, leading to the launch of a new robotics OLP edition built on that technology in 2023.
Operationally the company remains based in Espoo, Finland, retaining its own brand, product management, and partner network while its press announcements are also carried on KUKA Group channels. The legal name is Visual Components Oy.
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The company sells through its own direct sales organisation and a global network of partners, resellers, and consultants that reach manufacturing engineers, machine builders, and system integrators in multiple regions. Offices in the United States, Germany, and Japan support the network, and a KUKA Group webshop exists alongside the company's own contact and demo channels.
Consultancy projects are delivered together with experienced engineering partners, personalized training sessions are booked per company through the provider's contact channels, and platform partners can build their own applications on the company's open APIs. A partner-built add-on storefront distributes third-party extensions inside the same ecosystem.
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The company's offering family covers manufacturing simulation, robot offline programming, partner add-on distribution, and free simulation viewers. Visual Components Manufacturing Simulation provides discrete-event modeling of production systems; the robot offline programming edition lets engineers create and validate robot programs against simulated cells and download them to controllers; the Ecosystem catalogs partner-built add-ons, plugins, and integrations; and the Experience products present finished simulations on mobile, desktop, virtual reality, and the web without authoring access.
The core software is licensed in Essentials, Professional, and Premium editions and can run standalone, on a floating network server, or under account-based licensing. Release versions, their dates, and end-of-support windows are published on an official release-history surface aligned to the European Cyber Resilience Act life-cycle requirements, and installer downloads, an eCatalog, system-requirements, and supported-CAD pages accompany the product line.
Source: visualcomponents.com
