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Robots are becoming more flexible and resilient

Control Engineering

Industries that stand to benefit the most include food and beverage, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, logistics and construction as companies are trying to fill labor shortages to keep operations running efficiently.

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Robot orders down in first quarter of 2023

Control Engineering

During Q1, non-automotive orders in consumer goods, semiconductor & electronics, plastics & rubber, life sciences/pharmaceutical/ biomedical, metals, and others purchased 3,519 robots, down 42% over Q1 2022. Automotive customers accounted for 68% of all robot orders in Q1, with 5,659 robots purchased.

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Top 5 Control Engineering content: August 8-14, 2022

Control Engineering

Pharmaceutical control system integration: Fixing a blind spot in the process design helped user requirements for a heat exchanger control system. Cloud architecture, when examined in its entirety, can be very complex. Focusing on its interface with operations technology makes matters clearer and more manageable.

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Manufacturing industry recovery dependent on prudent fiscal policies

Control Engineering

In most cases, automotive sectors have performed strongly, but this has not been enough to offset poor performance in other industries, such as chemicals & pharmaceuticals, and textile machinery.

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Modest global manufacturing growth expected

Control Engineering

From an industry perspective, chemicals and pharmaceuticals manufacturing will enjoy the highest growth rate in China, reaching 4.7% Overall, the European manufacturing landscape looks bleak. manufacturing shrank by 4.3% In 2022, U.K. and is expected to reduce by a further 1.2% in 2023.

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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

The Fort Worth, Texas-based company focused on letter and flat sortation until 2007 when it began operating an e-commerce facility that processed polypacks for mailing pharmaceuticals. Owens and NPI COO Brent Daboub found the floppy packages difficult for standard machines to handle, so they developed the NPI Xstream system.

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Robotic grippers developed to pick up delicate, heavy objects

Control Engineering

We think the gripper design has potential applications in fields ranging from robotic prosthetics and food processing to pharmaceutical and electronics manufacturing,” Yin said. “We