Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We can walk you through, if you contact customer support. Please send us an email at contact@copia.io. A: We can track the files but not render them. . Q: Can you do an example of integration with slack? . A: We have a blog on this topic. Using Git for PLC workflows: Fixing issues, distribution, storage. – Edited by Mark T.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 12, 2023

A few well-known companies are leveraging digital technology to improve supply chain management, optimize operations, and boost consumer contact. They also participate in a number of trade exhibits and events. WEG announced the release of its newest M Mining Series slip-ring induction motors in September 2019.

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Control Engineering

JULY 15, 2022

Now developed as part of a non-contact optical monitoring system known as S4, the multilayered coating can be applied to large surfaces — bridges, buildings, ships and airplanes, for starters — where high strain poses an invisible threat.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ESVMs provide highly accurate non-contact surface electrostatic voltage measurements during etch, deposition and ion implantation and are also used to optimize the force applied in the electrostatic chucks (ESCs) that clamp the wafer, during handling and processing.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

  The seam tracking feature can correct both contact-tip-to-work (“CTWD,” “stickout”) distance and steer the cobot to stay in the center of symmetrical joints An algorithm correlates a cobot correction path in the joint at the proper tip-to-work distance.

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Control Engineering

JULY 19, 2022

Wiring: For the preceding methods involving safety sensors, interlocks, relays and controllers, these devices have specialized designs with dual-electrical contacts and other failsafe provisions. Standard non-safety devices often are not acceptable.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 10, 2023

The robot isn’t perceiving the geometry of the terrain; it’s only estimating its material contact properties, like friction. Currently, the controller is not trained in simulated environments that include slopes or stairs.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2022

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are now widely deployed to reduce human contact and increase operational efficiency. In addition to expanding e-commerce business, factory owners are also redesigning their shop floors in order to align with ongoing social distancing guidelines.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2023

Some versions of this device are available with SIL3 safety-rated contacts, much like a safety controller or relay, so they can be integrated with other controllers and devices. Absence of voltage testers is a new category that has been developed and incorporated into the NFPA 70E.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

This may also include an offset, from the point where the tooling is attached to where it contacts the part. When addressed from the view of the manipulator, they are referred to as tool coordinates, where the origin moves with the end effector. Local coordinates also can be defined, usually with origins within a working area.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 26, 2023

offered information on products to reduce conveyor maintenance for warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing. Beyond longer life, the design “optimizes the contact patch of the belt while the strength of the higher modulus provides highly efficient, dynamic load transfer.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 23, 2023

AMADA will also feature Influent by AMADA, which provides shop floor visibility like never before by integrating everything in a manufacturing environment, eliminating the barrier between the office and the shop. Alpha Laser US’s (Meadville, PA) AL-3D METAL 200 ensures additive manufacturing without direct powder contact.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JULY 20, 2023

Through its leading automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech, Emerson helps hybrid, process and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions and achieve their sustainability goals. For more information, visit Emerson.com.

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Control Engineering

MAY 16, 2023

The coils are both wired through the overload’s NC contact, which will de- energize the contactors if the overload is tripped. Both coils are also wired through the opposite coil’s NC contact, preventing both coils from being energized simultaneously. The NO contact labeled “Motor” is called the hold-in contact.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The camera views the back of the skin from the inside; based on the deformation, it can see where contact occurs and measure the geometry of the object’s contact surface. The mirrors, camera, and two sets of LEDs for illumination are attached to a plastic backbone and encased in a flexible skin made from silicone gel.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2022

“The points where the gripper makes contact with the object are essential for maintaining the object’s stability in the grasp. Also, the gripper must contact the object at those given points, and the gripper must be a single solid object connecting the contact points to the robot arm. Courtesy: University of Washington.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

. “We’ve worked to combine everything to turnkey solutions and we can manage a complete system,” he said, adding they want to supply a full packaging line to customers where there is one point of contact. Michael DeGrace, a UR+ ecosystem manager, said, “We’re all about working with our partners.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 12, 2023

Courtesy: KYKLO/A3 Pittman said they have created product content for over 600 manufacturers represented by KYKLO’s distributor customers. Their manufacturer partners are big names in industrial automation, including ABB, Festo, Panasonic, Phoenix Contact, Schneider Electric, WAGO and Yaskawa.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

The automated forklift will sense obstructions along its pre-programmed paths and its movements to avoid contact with people or objects while precisely selecting items off pallets to meet customer orders. To give you an idea of how that might work, consider a vision-guided forklift inside a warehouse.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 17, 2023

Many robotic hands pack all their powerful sensors into the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with those fingertips to be identified, which can take multiple grasps. Other designs use lower-resolution sensors spread along the entire finger, but these don’t capture as much detail, so multiple regrasps are often required.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Even humans begin learning to propel ourselves kinematically, crawling on hands and knees with the three points of contact on the ground at any time. This worm, wriggling through water, already had the foundations of the motion that enabled the first animals to walk on land, they propose.

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Control Engineering

MAY 8, 2023

In addition to a camera mounted to the base of the arm, the team incorporated custom high-bandwidth sensors at the fingertips that instantly record the force and location of any contact as well as the proximity of the finger to surrounding objects more than 200 times per second.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 23, 2023

In the study, the team fabricated small wafers of liquid crystal elastomers about the size of a contact lens, then set them on a hot plate. These materials are solid and stretchy polymer versions of the liquid crystals found in laptops or TV displays.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 18, 2023

ABB, for example, has combined software with a laser scanner to prevent contact between a moving robot and a human. “Technology can also be applied to larger or faster moving robots to enable collaborative operation,” Ware said.

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