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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 Review differences in Industry 4.0, Understand Industry 4.0 It has been a dozen years of Industry 4.0 Is there an Industry 5.0? How should Industry 4.0 initiatives.

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Unleash the power of smart manufacturing while ensuring automation and robotic safety

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives: Understand what technologies should be integrated into manufacturing automation and robotic processes Review current, available Industry 4.0 technology trends Learn the needed competences to complete a robotics and automation risk assessment Quickly establish Industry 4.0

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OmniOn looks to power, network next-gen delivery robots

Robotics Business Review

OmniOn supports multiple technologies, including robotics. Source: OmniOn Power As delivery robots and autonomous vehicles spread, much of the design and development attention has focused on safe navigation and obstacle detection, according to OmniOn Power Inc. “2023 was a big year for cost optimization for robotics companies.

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Southwest Research Institute to make robot programming more user friendly with SWORD

Robotics Business Review

SwRI Workbench for Offline Robotics Development allows manufacturing engineers to independently use complex robotics and simplifies motion planning for seasoned developers. Various forecasts project that the open-source advanced robotics market will grow more than 10% annually between 2024 and 2029. strategies.

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Lift: Advanced, automated metal forming, controls, training, optimization

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand ways the Lift manufacturing innovation institute in Detroit is helping to advance automated metal forming, controls, training and optimization. Learn the steps that lead from manual processes, to digitalization and finally to full-blown digital transformation. Courtesy: Mark T. Courtesy: Mark T.

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Control Engineering hot topics, July 2023

Control Engineering

Hot topics in Control Engineering, for July 2023, for stories posted in the last three months included industry 4.0, Is Industry 4.0, 2023 marks a dozen years of Industry 4.0. Control Engineering asked an Industry 4.0 Control Engineering asked an Industry 4.0 Are Industry 4.0

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AI+3D Vision Platform ‘A Robot Integrator’s Dream’

i4.0 today

At the Machine Vision Conference (MVC) , co-located with the brand-new BARA exhibition Automation UK , Scorpion Vision (Stand 21) will show how Mech Mind’s new generation AI+3D robot vision tech can support rapid development of 3D vision for robot picking challenges.