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Robot orders down in first quarter of 2023

Control Engineering

According to the latest report from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), companies ordered 9,168 units valued at $597 million in Q1 2023, a 21% drop in total units and a 10% drop in value over the same quarter in 2022, which was the third-best quarter on record for North America. A3 is a CFE Media and Technology content partner.

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Motion control, ease of use, sustainability: Pack Expo Las Vegas 2023

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how advances in PC-based controls, motion controls and robotics for food and packaging are making automation for food and beverage packaging easier to automate. Beckhoff Automation MX-System is a pluggable platform for cabinet-free packaging machines.