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Swarm robotics could spell the end of the assembly line

Robotics Business Review

Swarm robotics could transform aircraft manufacturing, as seen in this AI-generated image of a futuristic factory. The assembly line, a staple of industrial production for over a century, is about to be replaced by a far more efficient and cost-effective alternative — swarm robotics.

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Carpentry 4.0: When Robots and Saws Take Over the Night Shift

i4.0 today

Autonomous and without statutory break times – Robots can offer real value to carpentry workshops and boost production. Yet, this trade is not exempt from digitalisation and automation through the use of robots. By the late 1990s, the first high-performance assembly lines with robotic loading had hit the market.

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Should Santa Automate?

i4.0 today

Santa’s workshop is known for being pretty busy 364 days a year, especially around Christmas season. When controlled by an industrial PC with TwinCAT software, the XTS linear transport system can move the presents through the assembly line, with its magnetically driven movers. Gartner, Inc.

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Should Santa automate?

MEM

Santa’s workshop is known for being pretty busy 364 days a year, especially around Christmas season. When controlled by an industrial PC with TwinCAT software, the XTS linear transport system can move the presents through the assembly line, with its magnetically driven movers. Gartner, Inc.

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Learning 4.0: Using the tools of today for a better tomorrow

Automation Mag

The DMU 50 can be used to produce fixturing to clamp down components or tooling and to help make special tools required on the assembly line to assemble the products. Tools for the workforce Humber College equips its students with the proper skills needed to enter the manufacturing workspace.

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Lift: Advanced, automated metal forming, controls, training, optimization

Control Engineering

The Siemens area at Lift headquarters can hold about 50 people for workshops on topics such as digital threads, digital twins, simulation, automation, controls, design, maintenance and industrial machinery. Hoske, Control Engineering Small, modular manufacturing cells A compact assembly line is being expanded. Courtesy: Mark T.

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Three Common Myths About CMMs for Small Fabricating Shops

Fabricating & Metal Work

And so-called “shop floor machines” are even designed to be easily integrated right into the assembly line, meaning they would have a reduced impact on floorspace. Having inline or near-line part inspection is possible even with little available space in a small workshop.