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How to automate: Best Control Engineering advice, August 2023

Control Engineering

Cybersecurity, analytics, integrating manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and robotics to combat the labor shortage are among the key trends shaping the industry’s future.

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Four manufacturing applications that benefit from under-rider AMRs

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can help manufacturers. AMR insights Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can play a key role in manufacturing because of their name: They’re autonomous and do not require constant human intervention the way an automated guided vehicle (AGV) would.

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ProMat 2023: Intralogistics, software and motion in focus

Control Engineering

A robot demonstrated pick-and-place capabilities with a diverse range of products in a bin. A diversity of robots, vision systems and end-of-arm tooling (EoAT) may be used. Offline robotic programming can be performed within safety zones then downloaded to any brand robot.