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Manufacturers using digital transformation to future-proof operations

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Manufacturing insights Future-proofing manufacturing uses digitization and digitalization and eventually digital transformation to help companies make better and more informed decisions. Leading manufacturers are making the digital transition with help from trusted partners. We started with just the line operator’s body.

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Industrial robotics market growth expected to remain strong

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Robotics insights Industrial robot market growth is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18% from 2019 to 2029 thanks to robotics being increasingly used in the automotive and electronics industry according to a report by Future Market Insights. This is especially true as robots get smaller and less expensive.

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When will the mobile robot vendor base consolidate?

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Part of the reason that the industry is not yet consolidating is the fact that “mobile automation” captures a multitude of robot types, industries and applications. Despite numerous acquisitions the mobile robot market is in fact not consolidating. The same figure for collaborative robot arms is even higher, at nearly 85%.

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AI-enabled approach helps make autonomous robots safe, reliable

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Robots insights MIT researchers have developed a technique that can solve complex stabilize-avoid problems while improving stability. The paper will be presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference. This simulated jet model was open-sourced in 2018 and had been designed by flight control experts as a testing challenge.

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Machine safety market expected to almost double in next decade

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The safety of cost-effective production and machinery is critical, as it is in the machine safety industry, where these safety measures assist car manufacturers in reaching and maintaining machine safety targets.

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Addressing electrical safety hazards

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Small manufacturers and commercial operations such as data centers all need to address potential electrical hazards. Access control One growing safety trend is to limit worker access to potentially hazardous locations by means of intelligently-designed manufacturing cells, power distribution enclosures and equipment and control enclosures.

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Manufacturer marks 50 years with manufacturing, R&D expansions

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Manufacturing Insights. The campus, 30 miles north of Cincinnati, will be the site of a global production center (GPC) for the company’s advanced automated manufacturing facilities. The first facility opened in 2018 in Billerica, Mass., must expand manufacturing. manufacturing growth. This means the U.S.