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GM, Brightdrop inaugurate full-scale electric-vehicle manufacturing at retooled CAMI facility

Automation Mag

General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary BrightDrop opened the doors to its newly retooled CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont., Marking the inauguration, the first BrightDrop Zevo 600 electric delivery van rolled off the assembly line at the first full-scale electric-vehicle manufacturing plant (according to GM).

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Industry 4.0 assessment: Are you moving quickly enough?

Control Engineering

Advances in automation technology are transforming the manufacturing landscape. or sometimes “digital transformation,” these smart manufacturing initiatives bring physical and cyber systems together for greater performance, efficiency, sustainability, safety and competitive advantage. Already, a concept of Industry 5.0

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Automotive Digital Transformation

ATS

The technology driving digital transformation in automotive industry manufacturing represents a vast scope of enhancements to existing concepts such as automation, maintenance, data collection and more. Smart manufacturing in automotive industry applications also involves new — or newly applied — technology.

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Industry 5.0: The Next Era of Industrial Processes

ATS

With the advent of electricity in the late 1800s, manufacturing technology took its next major step forward. Electrification, along with the development of the assembly line, delivered unprecedented gains in speed and efficiency from the 1870s onward. technologies Robots and cobots: Robotics in Industry 5.0

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Best practices for effective automation applications, Part 1: Automation effectiveness through data collection

Control Engineering

Real-world examples will help fill skills gaps with smart manufacturing. Anybody that’s worked on an assembly line, perhaps that is doing the same task over and over again, an operator who is not engaged will frequently make mistakes and quality tends to suffer. How would we make it easier for a robot to grasp?

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Catching up with Industry 4.0

Automation Mag

The one thing I really worry about is the fact that companies are saying, ‘I’m not even going to invest in robotics or automation until I can be sure I can get the staff to run it,’” says Darby. . If you can have an operator assembling more parts with robotics, that improves productivity and makes us more competitive.”.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Smart machines and robotics will handle more of the industrial work especially where human intervention would be seen as more dangerous to deploy. With the incubation of robotics and Industry 4.0, With the incubation of robotics and Industry 4.0, There is a great appreciation of Industry 4.0