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Ubiros Gentle grippers go all electric for reliability, flexibility

Robotics Business Review

Electric end-of-arm tooling ( EOAT ) removes the need for tubes, valves, and compressors, he said. Up to 35% of the electricity bill in factories is spent on pressurized air, and 40% of the battery life of a mobile manipulator is consumed by a suction cup, he asserted. Is Ubiros looking at mobile manipulation ?

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Solving The Industrial Skills Shortage—A View from ABB

Gary Mintchell

Students could actually manipulate instruments and valves from their remote locations. They found customer experience was quite good. There were a number of programs where customers could “send” multiple people to training without travel cost.

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Case study: Redesign the process, then the control system

Control Engineering

Block valves would open to divert heat transfer fluid to the liquid nitrogen heat exchanger while the TCU control loop (TIC-01) would modulate a control valve to divert heat transfer fluid away from the heat exchanger if the TCU temperature (TI-01) became too cold.

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Vision Engineering Group welcomes new Managing Director

MEM

About Vision Engineering Limited Vision Engineering Ltd is a global leading-edge designer and manufacturer of patented ergonomic stereo optical and digital instruments, used for inspection, manipulation, measurement and analysis of manufactured parts, by most of the world’s leading manufacturers and their extended supply chains.

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Spiders used as mechanical grippers for soft robotics

Control Engineering

They had the grippers manipulate a circuit board, move objects and even lift another spider. Internal valves in the spiders’ hydraulic chamber, or prosoma , allow them to control each leg individually, and that will also be the subject of future research, Preston said. The dead spider isn’t controlling these valves,” he said.

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How electrification of linear actuators improve material handling automation

Control Engineering

Figure 1) In an assembly operation, for example, linear actuators might feed materials, manipulating them to optimize access to work surfaces or diverting objects from one conveyor to another. Electric designs reduce the need to redesign to larger components of a system such as a hydraulic manifold/valve redesign, tube or hose route.

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Industrial Automation: The Machine Parts Behind the Motion

Trimantec

The screw is a rotational torque turned into a linear action that adjusts height or depth—picture a screw-on lid or valve (faucet). By adding an active and passive electronic component to a typical electrical circuit, we manipulate electric current to create signals which impart communications between electronic machine devices.