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AMRs and AMVs Create Safer Surroundings and Adjust Workflows Quickly

Fabricating & Metal Work

AI-enabled mobile robots can transform sectors like discrete manufacturing, logistics and laboratories,” Segura said. When cycle times require high-speed travel, front and rear-mounted laser scanners ensure safe operation in all travel directions. An integrated lifting device lifts up to 60 mm in under three seconds.

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Successfully implementing robots in an unpredictable future

Control Engineering

Robots can help fill some, but not all, of the labor gap manufacturers currently face. The challenge is getting manufacturers to buy into the concept because they believe robots are too expensive and will take jobs when the opposite is true. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting great resignation have put manufacturers in a bind.

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PTXPO Preview 2023: Upcoming Software/Simulation Services, Training and Marketing Solutions

Mold Making Technology

Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, brings partners across the supply chain together. Cimatron is an integrated CAD/CAM system for the design and manufacture of plastic injection molds and sheet metal stamping dies, as well as programming 2D to five-axis milling CNC machines. Get to Know R.E.R. Software Inc.

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Manufacturers using digital transformation to future-proof operations

Control Engineering

Manufacturing insights Future-proofing manufacturing uses digitization and digitalization and eventually digital transformation to help companies make better and more informed decisions. Leading manufacturers are making the digital transition with help from trusted partners. We started with just the line operator’s body.

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Custom algorithm used to solve challenges with robotic layer forming and de-tray system

Control Engineering

Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) worked with Gojo Industries to create robotic cells: a de-tray and layer forming system. Designing the de-tray and layer forming robotic cells allowed several the engineering team to solve robot speed issues and meet cycle time requirements. Learning Objectives. Layer forming system.

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Five advances in motion control, communications, design to ease automation use

Control Engineering

A new Festo family of multi-protocol servo drives provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with productivity and cost advantages with less inventory, by preventing supply chain issues and working smarter with this family of servo drives. Users input key parameters, such as mass, stroke/travel distance and cycle time.