Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Machinery sectors have performed better than the manufacturing sector overall, and despite current challenges the next global downturn for manufacturing is not expected until late 2025 or early 2026. The next manufacturing downturn is expected in 2026, but to a lesser extent than in 2020. in 2022, compared to 3.3%

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

China passed the United States in robot density for the first time as the nation is putting enhanced emphasis on robotics and automation to keep up with manufacturing demand. Asia as a whole is embracing robotics and automation with the continent having four countries in the top 5 and six countries in the top 8.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 28, 2023

Global economic volatility and supply chain disruptions are having a huge impact on the market for industrial robots, which has led to project delays and decreased spending on automation projects. The pandemic helped to fuel demand for the robotics industry as companies turn to automation as a way of alleviating labor shortages.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Statistics from the 2021 World Robotics Report from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) 2021 highlight a global increase in the rate of robot adoption, with robot density – calculated as the average number of robots per 10,000 workers – almost doubling between 2015 and 2020. to 2030 to reach a value of more than $88 billion.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

After four years, the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) returned to McCormick Place in Chicago. The largest trade show in North America was sidelined in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but came back in September without skipping a beat. ” Automation and AI myths.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2022

In 2020/2021, the pandemic created significant demand for automation which significantly boosted the outlook for the manufacturing industry. Tim Dawson, senior research director at Interact Analysis, said, “COVID-19 has had and will have both positive and negative effects on the motion controls market.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hot topics during 2022 in Control Engineering include award-winning automation, control and instrumentation products; a variable frequency drive (VFD) tutorial; advanced motor control tutorial; information about engineering salaries and career advice; and “Engineering Leaders Under 40,” based on Google Analytics for www.controleng.com.

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Control Engineering

MAY 23, 2023

South Korean manufacturers have also begun to emerge in the market since 2020, but their success has been largely tied to the local market because market entry is more difficult for overseas manufacturers. Collaborative robots are an important part of intelligent manufacturing and an effective complement to lean production.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2023

In support of these best practices, this article identifies how some newer products and/or the addition of automation, can increase the effectiveness of safety controls. This approach provides an automated method to enable an enclosure to be unlocked when an absence of voltage is confirmed.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

Big Data has become the foundation upon which industrial automation providers are building new solutions and services. In 2020, the largest industrial/commercial motor vendor in the world, ABB, released its EC Titanium motor. This will remain a constant as data centers continue to become more powerful.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. The combined market share of the top 10 and top 20 leading vendors barely changed between 2018 and 2020 and indeed dropped in 2021. Courtesy: Interact Analysis.

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Control Engineering

JULY 15, 2022

Robots-as-a-service (RaaS) is a flexible and affordable way for companies to deploy automation and related services such as engineering, maintenance and remote monitoring. million between 2020 and 2024, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17%. Courtesy: Chris Vavra, CFE Media and Technology. Lowering robotics adoption barriers.

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Control Engineering

JULY 21, 2022

Due to staffing shortages and major supply chain issues, manufacturers are willing to emphasize automation more to meet surging demand. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) used machine vision and sensing technologies to move around freely and a key part around automation when it comes to logistics.

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