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North American Lighting Accelerates Assembly Line Production with MakerBot 3D Printers

Dinesh Mishra

NAL engineers print end of arm tools, assembly line jigs, fixtures, and more with METHOD X 3D printers. North American Lighting (NAL), a Koito Group Company, has been manufacturing automotive lighting systems for vehicle manufacturers since 1983. Caption: “Anything I look at now can be 3D printed.

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Washington university develops 3D-printed robotic gripper that can pick up anything, no matter what its geometry

Robotics Automation News

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, car manufacturing companies such as Ford quickly shifted their production focus from automobiles to masks and ventilators. To make this switch possible, these companies relied on people working on an assembly line.

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Lighting manufacturer to open new R&D facility

Manufacturer's Monthly

Advanced lighting manufacturer VAILO is expanding its manufacturing and R&D footprint to Wayville, SA, building a workplace for the future to allow for increased demand and a growing workforce. The post Lighting manufacturer to open new R&D facility appeared first on Manufacturers' Monthly.

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NASA Has Jumped on the Generative AI Design and Manufacturing Bandwagon

21st Century Tech

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) there is a new course offering entitled, AI for Computational Design and Manufacturing. The course runs for five days and according to the syllabus includes the following: Learning how AI can be used in a manufacturing workflow for process optimization and control.

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10 cobots guarantee ‘just in time’ manufacture of gearboxes

Robotics Business Review

Gearbox manufacturer SEAT Componentes needed to automate the unloading of 18,000 machined gears a day at its plant in Spain to guarantee the quality of the parts. The company integrated 10 collaborative robots from Universal Robots using only internal resources. UR collaborative robots at SEAT Componentes.

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10 Areas Manufacturers Might See an Impact from AI

Fabricating & Metal Work

AI-integrated quality control software allows manufacturers to measure the true quality of manufactured and purchased parts by identifying defects the human eye cannot see. Few technologies have transformed the manufacturing industry like ERP software.

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Charles Darwin University rolls out new course for the digitisation of manufacturing

AU Manufacturing

The North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems at Charles Darwin University (CDU) has created the new “Diploma of Advanced Manufacturing” to help NT enterprises make the transition to Industry 4.0 Students must have a CERT III or CERT IV in relevant subjects or prior manufacturing experience to apply. Industry 4.0