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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. To that end, assembly line tools are essential to ensure that production continues smoothly. Carpenter was new to 3D printing when he was introduced to the MakerBot METHOD X series in early 2022.

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

Robotics Automation News

To make this switch possible, these companies relied on people working on an assembly line. It would have been too challenging for a robot to make this transition because robots are […].

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Lighting manufacturer to open new R&D facility

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Wayville facility will expand VAILO’s production output, with more than five times the manufacturing floorspace while incorporating automation and robotics on the assembly line.

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NASA Has Jumped on the Generative AI Design and Manufacturing Bandwagon

21st Century Tech

It intends to explore and teach the transitioning of today’s manufacturing systems into on-demand, custom-designed processes that use 3D printing or additive manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI). space agency, that recently started revealing hardware for spacecraft designed using 3D printing and AI?

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10 cobots guarantee ‘just in time’ manufacture of gearboxes

Robotics Business Review

The company integrated 10 collaborative robots from Universal Robots using only internal resources. SEAT decided to integrate 10 UR10e collaborative robots to carry out the unloading. UR collaborative robots at SEAT Componentes. UR robot arms transfer parts. UR robot arms transfer parts.

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

AU Manufacturing

projects, implementing the Internet of Things (IoT) on assembly lines, evaluating cyber security tools, and incorporating robotics and 3D printing into manufacturing. In the course, students will gain knowledge in managing Industry 4.0

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10 Areas Manufacturers Might See an Impact from AI

Fabricating & Metal Work

AI’s image recognition algorithms can analyze images of products on the assembly line to identify defects that the human eye is unable to detect. Labor Shortages AI applications can help with labor shortages through robotic automation, additive manufacturing and machine vision.