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Taking your first steps into Industrial Automation?

Manufacturer's Monthly

Written by Jon Young Flores – Group Owner- Agribusiness, Manufacturing, Logistics & Retail. Industrial automation can improve productivity, lower costs, deliver agile manufacturing and provide a solution to today’s skill shortages, supply chain challenges and economic instability. But it needs careful planning.

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What is a Microfactory?

ATS

With the global supply chain disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the microfactory concept became an optimal solution to reduce supply chain risk, improve operating margins for manufacturers and allow customers to order nearly any quantity, that is, without minimum volume requirements. What is a gigafactory?

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30 kg Collaborative Robot Unveiled and Ready for Sale

Gary Mintchell

The automotive and electronics markets are hot, and logistics has become an increasingly good market for cobots. Industries around the world are embracing more agile manufacturing and modularity in production – part of achieving that modularity and agility is about mobility and this cobot delivers that despite its payload. “As

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