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Industrial Processes & Wireless Communications – Part II: Manufacturing Logistics

Cisco Manufacturing

Examples are, mobile robots, AGV(automated guided vehicles), and manufacturing infrastructure. This blog is the second in a series, bringing a lens on manufacturing logistics, dissecting the application flow and a little detail on why the serving wireless medium must behave in a particular way to support it. Manufacturing Logistics.

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Rockwell Automation Signs Agreement to Acquire Clearpath Robotics.

Gary Mintchell

Autonomous robotics company’s acquisition to accelerate Rockwell’s end-to-end autonomous production logistics solutions Companies usually add a descriptive phrase following their name in a press release to describe what business they are in. Now it is “the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation.”

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Rockwell Automation to strengthen its position with Clearpath Robotics acquisition

Automation Mag

Rockwell Automation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ontario, Canada-based Clearpath Robotics. The combined technology will also amplify Kalypso’s production logistics consulting practice. Autonomous production logistics is becoming a necessity to meet targets and stay competitive.

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How humanoid robots can help narrow gaps between automation and labor

Robotics Business Review

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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Emerson Exchange 2022

Gary Mintchell

The control and automation market I’ve been in since the late 90s has definitely become a software market. I was coming off a vacation (not planned by me) and couldn’t work out the logistics of making it to Dallas. Boundless Automation. The excitement that remains is mainly software and services. Intelligent Field.

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Ricoh to provide customer support for Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid

Robotics Business Review

The Digit humanoid could work in distribution, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, and third-party logistics. Agility Robotics described Digit as “a multi-purpose, human-centric robot” designed it to work safely in human spaces and help with a variety of repetitive tasks in logistics. The Corvallis, Ore.-based

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Industrial Processes and Wireless Communications – Part III: Process Automation Monitoring

Cisco Manufacturing

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.