Gary Mintchell

APRIL 22, 2025

The current topic seems to be expansion of software control to make robotics easier to use and with expanded repertoire. These new FlexxCORE capabilities equip manufacturers to scale robotic production across the smart factory in a standardized way for greater plant capacity, quality, and EBITDA margins.

Robotics 130

Robotics Robotics Automation Process control 130

Design World

MAY 23, 2025

Since the beginning, PC-based control technology from Beckhoff has benefited from a deliberate convergence of automation and IT standards. Current examples include the use of the latest industry-standard processor generations, high-quality, demand-optimized flash memory, and the long-term availability version of Windows 11.

Automation 130

Automation 130

Automation World

APRIL 2, 2025

Manufacturers in the food and beverage industry who successfully adopt AI will see the biggest benefits from the careful combination of computer vision for improved quality control and machine learning for predictive maintenance.

Beverage 260

Beverage Manufacturing 260

Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Noteworthy announcements include: Industrial AI Assistant AVEVA Unified Engineering AVEVA Operations Control AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure AVEVA Unified Engineering , the new enhancements will bring together global, multi-discipline, multi-organization teams and allow them to work from the same up-to-date project data in a common environment.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing 130

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Source: Massimo Group Massimo Motor Sports LLC, a manufacturer and distributor of powersports vehicles and pontoon boats, has added robotics to its new assembly line to streamline production and enhance quality control. Massimo Group is also developing electric versions of UTVs, golf carts, and pontoon boats. 34,931 sq.

Robotics 116

Robotics Robotics Assembly Line Automation 116

Gary Mintchell

MARCH 28, 2025

This edge-to-cloud data integration enables AI- and digital-twin-powered solutions to improve machine performance, product quality, and reduce machine maintenance. It allows manufacturers to deploy responsive, reliable, flexible and secure applications to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and increase uptime and quality.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing 130

Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This news comes from Copia Automation who attempts to solve the problem of how controls engineers write, manage, and document industrial code. Code modification: Improve, format, or troubleshoot existing code, allowing engineers to streamline their workflows and enhance code quality.

Automation 130

Automation Function Manufacturing 130

Automation World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

How optical character recognition combined with artificial intelligence is transforming quality control and compliance processes in manufacturing.

Artificial Intelligence 223

Artificial Intelligence Compliance Manufacturing 223

Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Image: BesTech Bestech Australia, a leading supplier of industrial sensors, instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and technical teaching equipment has announced the acquisition of Transtech Electronic Controls Pty Ltd, in its company portfolio. For more information about Transtech Electronic Controls Pty Ltd, visit www.transtech.com.au

Electronics 98

Electronics Automation Manufacturing 98

Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designed using 3D simulations and FEM analysis, leading machines are built for high structural rigidity, which can translate to quality product results and the elimination of hand-fitting of mold components. This system controls the feed velocity to maintain consistent cutting load. Smaller and mid-range machines are available.

Fit 98

Fit Cycle time Process control Automotive 98

Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

They offer remote power on/off control, allowing for control from the mobile robot controllers or a PLC. That is because we have miniaturized the controller to just 10 percent of the original size and integrated it into the robot base. Robot controllers are mostly bulky, making it harder to automate tasks.

Robotics 115

Robotics Robotics Form Function 115

iBASEt

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Design Quality – Integrates quality standards and control plans into the MBE data model, reducing rework and supporting compliance. This framework establishes common data formats, traceability standards, and quality checks, creating a unified digital ecosystem. The Tiger Team acts as a cultural ambassador.

Compliance 104

Compliance Function Bottleneck Logistics 104

Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

“We’re not just about quality – we’re here for the long term and this partnership with Power Equipment allows us to focus on what we do best – designing and building better generators,” he said. The lightweight and compact Eniquest generator range features fuel economy, robustness, quality build materials and top-end controller design.

Supply Chain 98

Supply Chain Fit Electronics Manufacturing 98

Gary Mintchell

APRIL 8, 2025

They can reach out to a control engineer, operator, quality group. Perhaps theres a maintenance agent, or one for OEE, or line quality on a work cell. Not shy in his forecast, Harrington says the future is agents. They can affect and act on data. Its a targeted AI tool focused on one small thing.

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Automation Manufacturing 130

Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bringing together cross-disciplinary world-class researchers and industrial affiliates, the SRC is dedicated to exploring how robotics can impact how we live and work, improve healthcare and quality of life, and give people power to do things they could never do before. Notable attendees to the opening ceremony included AI visionary Prof.

Robotics 130

Robotics Robotics Logistics Automation 130

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Source: AgiBot Robot training, especially for emerging humanoids for diverse environments or applications, requires a lot of high-quality data. AgiBot World is an ecosystem that includes foundational models, standardized benchmarks, and a collaborative framework aimed at democratizing access to high-quality robotic data.

Benchmarking 116

Benchmarking Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence 116

Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Holding Two-Tenths as an Artform From what I witnessed during my visit, Suburban Tool prides itself on two key qualities: adhering to exacting production requirements and committing to domestic production using local supply chains. “We’ve always been known for our high-quality tools,” Heintz says.

Lead Time 98

Lead Time Supply Chain Sourcing Robotics 98

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Its competitive edge lies in delivering a compelling combination of product quality and affordability, effectively meeting its broad customer base’s diverse needs,” said Nancy Wang, senior consultant at Frost & Sullivan.

Supply Chain 98

Supply Chain Beverage Aerospace Lead Time 98

Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 26, 2025

This labour-intensive process created challenging repetitive work while increasing production costs and making consistent quality difficult to maintain at such high volumes. The team built and tested a single cell that could handle one biscuit variety with the necessary speed, precision and quality control.

Robotics 59

Robotics Robotics Beverage Automation 59

Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The companys emphasis on quality, innovation, and workforce development not only strengthens its market position but also supports the broader objectives of the NSW Government to create jobs and invigorate local industries. Commitment to local manufacturing One of GMEs core values is maintaining Australian manufacturing.

Manufacturing 84

Manufacturing Supply Chain Electronics Lean manufacturing 84

Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 28, 2025

oftware solutions provider, Minitab, helps manufacturing businesses with platforms that enable data analysis and quality improvement. Image: gumpapa/stock.adobe.com Minitabs software solutions have evolved to increase product quality, get to market faster and reduce excess waste. In line with the times of Industry 4.0,

Beverage 59

Beverage Quality Management System Process control Automation 59

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2025

Image: Andrey Burmakin/stock.adobe.com The importance of quality standards in manufacturing cannot be overstated. As such, quality must be built into the welding process, right from the very beginning. This approach ensures a baseline of quality and safety across the continent. Welding must be done correctly the first time.

Compliance 95

Compliance Manufacturing Fit Benchmarking 95

Robotics Business Review

MARCH 26, 2025

FlexxCORE has been updated for longer unattended production, increased capacity, and improved product quality. The company said the new release delivers more powerful capabilities for machine tending, quality control, and robotic production.

Robotics 76

Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Process control 76

Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

New Project GR00T workflows and AI world model tools are intended to help developers of robot dexterity, control, manipulation, and mobility. NVIDIA said its Cosmos tokenizers provide high quality encoding and decoding to simplify the development of these world models with minimal distortion and temporal instability.

Robotics 111

Robotics Robotics Sourcing Artificial Intelligence 111

Modern Machine Shop

MAY 11, 2025

These problems begin with equipment being of low quality and hard to maintain. Haas uses an industrial control on its machines. Here again, students are exposed to controls that are used in machine shops all over North America. I have seen many school shops that use CNC controls that would never be found in a machine shop.

Fit 98

Fit Sourcing Manufacturing Automation 98

Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 19, 2025

Our gas mixture in Lascut Speed optimises the speed of nitrogen with the quality of oxygen to allow manufacturers to achieve top-notch cut quality without sacrificing efficiency, said Sutton. Aside from speed, an important consideration within all manufacturing processes is quality. This is just an example of that, he said.

Sourcing 89

Sourcing Manufacturing Form Function 89

Gary Mintchell

MARCH 28, 2025

For example, the generative AI-powered assistant empowers engineering teams to generate code for programmable logic controllers using their native language, speeding-up SCL code generation by an estimated 60% while minimizing errors and reducing the need for specialized knowledge.

Value chain 130

Value chain Function Process manufacturing Automation 130

Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 23, 2025

The two companies worked closely together to create a tool measuring machine based on user requirements that is said to be reliable, innovative and built to rigorous quality control standards.

Sourcing 88

Sourcing 88

Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Image: KAESER Australia Pharmaceuticals, foodstuff, healthcare, chemicals and other specialised manufacturing applications have especially high demands when it comes to compressed air quality. For these sensitive processes, KAESER Australia has released the latest class 0 oil-free compressor. Newly launched in Australia, the new CSG.1

Pharmaceutical 98

Pharmaceutical Beverage Prototype  Form 98

Robotics Business Review

MAY 15, 2025

Cattron unveils XBMCU multi-interface machine control unit Cattron, a developer of radio remote controls , engine and generator control panels, and cloud-based monitoring technologies, showed its XBMCU Multi-Interface Machine Control Unit at Automate. NovAI Capture brings machine vision into the robotic welding process.

Automation 66

Automation Robotics Robotics Fit 66

Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Aydogdu explained how manufacturers can optimize their CNC ( computer numerical control ) machine operations with automatic gripper changes. Source: Tezmaksan Robot Technologies Consistency in positioning and repeatability are critical for producing high-quality components.

Manufacturing 106

Manufacturing Bottleneck Robotics Robotics 106

Automation World

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Though data analytics-driven artificial intelligence in machine vision systems is most commonly applied in manufacturing quality control applications, generative AI also plays a role. Heres how.

Artificial Intelligence 162

Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing 162

Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 18, 2025

Operating in a market of discerning ice cream enthusiasts necessitates a commitment to product quality and consumer safety. The upgrades have helped improve safety, quality, efficiency, speed and the factorys overall production output. The future of manufacturing will continue to evolve as new technology emerges.

Manufacturing 92

Manufacturing Supply Chain Freight Logistics 92

Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Source: ANCA ANCA ’s Motor Temperature Control (MTC) technology is designed to enable the consistent production of high-quality taps by addressing a key challenge: thermal growth. It enables operators to set the spindle temperature for production, and the machine automatically monitors and maintains that temperature.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Manufacturing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Located in New South Wales, the companys high-tech PNT facility adopts a vertical integration framework, covering all phases of photonics and FOG developmentfrom design and quality testing to automated manufacturing.

Supply Chain 94

Supply Chain Electronics Form Manufacturing 94

Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Sentire system features lightweight surgeon side arms, tremor filtration, and motion-control techniques to aid complex surgeries in confined spaces. Source: Cornerstone Robotics Cornerstone Robotics Ltd., a surgical robotics developer, Monday today said it has raised $70 million in Series C financing.

Robotics 116

Robotics Robotics Supply Chain Form 116

Donlouco

JUNE 4, 2025

Quality Control in Overseas Manufacturing. Many companies struggle with inconsistent quality, delayed shipments, and communication challenges when working with remote suppliers. These challenges highlight the importance of robust quality management in international sourcing. Transparent quality assurance at every stage.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Manufacturing Logistics Supply Chain 52