Robotics Automation News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Today, IT solutions are just as necessary as the machinery and heavy equipment used to produce products. As such, it is used by large and new small and medium manufacturing companies. This software is also designed for those who have factory businesses such as import/export trade.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 13, 2024

Robots are taking a greater role and improving automation in many ways, but are humanoid robots the next step? Innovation in robotics, which started in 1961 with the Unimation arm and continues to today, “has created highly specialized automation that has driven us to automate these workspaces,” she said.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 12, 2023

That must mean there is no definitive analyst firm covering that subject. Looks like its definition of public cloud includes AWS, Azure, GCP, and Snowflake (more on Snowflake in a post coming soon). Every company is performing its own surveys and reports. This survey and report from a company called Laminar looks at public clouds.

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Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rockwell Automation keeps its acquisition team busy. Rockwell Automation Inc., Rockwell Automation Inc., The post Rockwell Automation To Acquire Verve Industrial To Bolster Cybersecurity Offering appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection. Still trailing the traditional product portfolio, though.

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Automation World

JULY 24, 2023

To mitigate digital transformation issues, focus on clear goal identification, strategic definition and execution of small iterative projects that deliver tangible value.

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Design World

MARCH 18, 2024

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.’s high-definition display so that any function can be easily visible and accessed from the customizable HOME screen or page list. s new teach pendant, R86T6, evolved from the conventional, high-performance teach pendant to deliver customizable and intuitive functions to OEMs and end users alike.

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 9, 2025

QPerfect, founded in 2023, specializes in quantum computing and quantum design automation in particular with neutral atom quantum technology. Subject to completion of due diligence and execution of definitive agreements, the investment will support QPerfect’s development roadmap and expansion plans.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 30, 2025

Source: Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions showcases its ATOS Q blue-light 3D scanner, a compact 3D scanner that acquires high-definition and precise, 3D scans of various objects ranging from small to medium-sized parts across diverse industries.

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Cisco Industrial Automation

APRIL 27, 2022

Automate deployment and monitoring. To save time and effort and avoid risk, IT teams automate network infrastructure configuration with software-defined network management tools like Cisco DNA Center. IT teams use automated discovery tools to see all connected devices and their communications patterns. Most OT teams can’t.

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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Rockwell Automation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ontario, Canada-based Clearpath Robotics. Rockwell will strengthen its Connected Enterprise with the acquisition of this AMR specialist.

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Design World

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc.’s high-definition display so that any function can be easily visible and accessed from the customizable HOME screen or page list. s new R86T6 Teach Pendant evolved from the conventional, high-performance teach pendant to deliver customizable and intuitive functions to OEMs and end users.

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Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 7, 2023

(Thank you graduate school course on running statistically valid surveys which are definitely not run by journalists.) Siemens Emerson and GE Digital (tied) Inductive Automation AVEVA (Wonderware?) Rockwell Automation didn’t get enough responses to get its own line on the graph. Not so many responded Industry 4.0 Interesting.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This begins with a definition of terms and a description of assumptions. For this analysis, autonomous vehicles (including technologies that support autonomous driving) and drones are considered robots, while 3D printers, CNC systems, and various types of “hard” automation are not.

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Design World

MAY 15, 2024

a leading distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts, and a premier provider of industrial technology solutions, signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Allied Circuits, an electrical and automation firm. Motion Industries, Inc.,

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Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The automation side of Yokogawa has not contacted me for years. This news incorporates a lot of things currently receiving media attention—data integration and visualization solution that incorporates robotic process automation (RPA). I’ve lost all my contacts there. Recently some news has come my way. Yokogawa Electric Corp.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 19, 2025

AMD, one of the worlds largest semiconductor companies, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell ZT Systems US-headquartered data center infrastructure manufacturing business to Sanmina, an integrated manufacturing solutions company.

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Cisco Manufacturing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Examples are, mobile robots, AGV(automated guided vehicles), and manufacturing infrastructure. This blog is the third in this three-part series, bringing a lens on process automation monitoring, dissecting the application flow and a little detail on why the serving wireless medium must behave in a particular way to support it.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 9, 2023

Multifrequency fiber optic cables already installed everywhere provide ultrahigh-speed data highways across the globe, which provides near-real-time video communications across nations including the ability to stream high-definition movies. The automation world has been taking advantage of these technological bursts.

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Automation World

MAY 22, 2024

Definitions of the digital thread tend to vary, but Siemens’ bills of material approach gets to the core of data usage from engineering design through to the supply chain.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2024

Their flagship product is their Spool Welding Robot (SWR), which is designed to automate the welding process for pipe spool fabrication in industries such as oil and gas, power generation, shipbuilding, mining, and construction. The post Automated welding made efficient appeared first on Manufacturers' Monthly.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 26, 2025

FlexxCOREs fully RESTful application programming interface (API) now has an expanded data model to enable dynamic definition of the production robotic environment, explained Tyler Modelski, co-founder and chief technology officer of Flexxbotics.

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Seeburger

APRIL 11, 2024

“Artificial general intelligence is a system which can perform well over a whole range of different tasks at the same level as a human being” Colin Murdoch, Chief Business Officer, DeepMind1 The above quotation is the DeepMind definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

My first reaction was somewhat negative thinking from an automation point of view. It didn’t point to a definitive answer. This sounds like a definitive answer, rather than a list of suggestions. When I first became an editor, he was a vice president of an automation technology provider. Emerson, duh, is a conglomerate.

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Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The control and automation market I’ve been in since the late 90s has definitely become a software market. Boundless Automation. Yes, the main players that remain do still have their legacy controllers, instrumentation, sensors, and networking. The excitement that remains is mainly software and services. Intelligent Field.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 2, 2023

The shop floor at Rekluse is lined with VersaBuilt's Automation Systems. Considerations for Evolving Automation Rekluse only needed a handful of these robot-fed machines to go from shipping orders eight weeks late during the winter months to pushing through its busy season without getting behind. This led to other considerations.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, has launched a new “high-performance teach pendant for improved operability”. inch high-definition display so that any function can be […] The R86TB is designed with a 10.1-inch

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Gary Mintchell

JUNE 14, 2024

My old friend Jim Pinto wrote a regular column for me at Automation World magazine. He was fond of predicting that Rockwell Automation had to be acquired because it had grown too large to grow at a respectable rate. Rockwell, along with all the other major industrial automation suppliers, have grown and matured.

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The Fabricator

OCTOBER 27, 2022

has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fori Automation Inc., a designer and manufacturer of automated assembly systems, automated material handling systems, and end-of-line testing systems. Cleveland-based Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc.

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Automation Mag

MAY 12, 2023

Recently, Manufacturing AUTOMATION hosted its ‘ First Steps in Automation ‘ virtual event for those manufacturers looking to adopt automation technologies in the near future. They explained, therefore, that it is essential to understand the business problem and tailor the automation solutions accordingly.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

the evolving role of automation in the manufacturing industry was on full display with new or upgraded cobots, industrial robots and autonomous systems, such as AMRs. This issue’s cover story explores “ Welding Technology: Robotics, Automation and Cobots.” At FABTECH 2024, held in October for the premiere expo in Orlando, Fla.,

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Canadian Manufacturing

MARCH 17, 2025

FulfillAI is a newly developed and field tested software algorithm that offers a different approach to automated fulfillment for retailers with in-store and wholesale distribution challenges seeking faster fulfillment in combination with increases in system capacities. ”

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 22, 2024

This automated robotic cell at MetalQuest frees employees from repetitive, manual tasks. Source: MetalQuest From the earliest days of automation at IMTS featuring a robot hand moving parts, there has been a massive evolution in technology. “What is the definition of automation?” “Here’s an analogy.

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Automation Mag

MARCH 13, 2025

a Newfoundland-based producer of software-centric sensors and underwater robotic systems, has signed a definitive agreement and plan of merger to acquire 3D at Depth, Inc., Kraken Robotics Inc., an American subsea technology and services company specializing in high resolution LiDAR imaging and measurements.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For many fabrication shops that perform TIG welding, the switch from manual to automation is a promising option. For those shops, it’s helpful to understand the pros and cons involved, with the pros definitely outweighing the cons. It simplifies production by automating what is a laborious job.”

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i4.0 today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A Powerhouse for Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Transformation As global manufacturing rapidly evolves, with technologies like AI, automation, and green energy reshaping industries, this Mega Feast comes at a pivotal time.

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 3, 2024

After years of close collaboration, these two leading global standards-based non-profit entities have executed a term sheet to combine resources into a single business focused on creating device integration technology standards and products serving the user and vendor communities of industrial process, hybrid, and factory automation.

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Automation Mag

APRIL 1, 2025

But there is definitely a nuisance factor to it. Outside of robotics, there were companies offering automation solutions, 3D printing companies, new AMRs and steel workstation manufacturers from all across Canada. The best automation providers are global, theyre Canadian, theyre in France theyre in China.

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