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Rockwell Automation Signs Agreement to Acquire Clearpath Robotics.

Gary Mintchell

Rockwell Automation has been “the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation”, and then “the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and software.” Now it is “the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation.” Software was sexy. Just watch.

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New Optimization Service to Help Manufacturers Quickly Reduce Cycle Time

Fabricating & Metal Work

Optimization-as-a-Service analyzes a customer’s existing digital twin, identifying bottleneck areas and recommending improvements based on the customer’s desired parameters. Getting more out of existing or new automation helps manufacturers, including major automotive companies, consistently exceed revenue goals.

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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

Traceability is widely used in the world of automation, and for good reason. solutions, it can help to think of traceability as a parallel process that has evolved to match the automation world’s expansive capabilities. Eric Henefield is global director, traceability solutions business for Omron Automation.

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The Integration Problem ~ Why Vision Software Should be Specifically Designed for your Automation Process ~

MEM

In this article, Adam Carless, vision product specialist at automation and control technology specialist, Beckhoff UK , argues why vision hardware should be tailored to meet the unique requirements of your automation environment.

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Valiant TMS and Realtime Robotics partner to cut programming, cycle times

Robotics Business Review

The companies said the combination of Realtime’s proprietary software and engineering expertise with Valiant TMS’s manufacturing industry experience will improve the efficiency and productivity of automated operations. ” Valiant TMS seven-robot automotive framing application.

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Five-Axis Graphite Mill With Automation Debottlenecks Electrode Machining

Mold Making Technology

Preferred Tool added Jingdiao’s automation system (above, on right), which holds 110 pieces of graphite and just-cut electrodes — enough for four days of unattended machining, as the team discovered last fall after loading the machine before departing for IMTS. Peltier started looking for a newer, faster general-purpose mill.

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nTop 4 Launches at RAPID + TCT

Additive Manufacturing

Integrate: Eliminate data exchange bottlenecks with Implicit Interop As AM parts increase in complexity, legacy design file sizes become a roadblock. nTop Automate enables users to multiply the impact of engineering resources by executing nTop workflows through a programmatic environment. nTop Implicit File (.implicit)