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Setting Up the Building Blocks for a Digital Factory

Modern Machine Shop

First, it connects data from the machines to Ignition, the company’s SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) software from Inductive Automation, and vice versa, enabling the digital factory concept. The company also uses MiConnect to program its machine tending robots, and tracks tool life through the software.

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Real-time Robot Workspace Monitoring for Precision Manufacturers

Gary Mintchell

I’ll be checking out what’s new in robotics among other technologies. Here is a release I’ve had for a few weeks to whet your appetite for more robot news. This regards monitoring Universal Robots workspaces for robot performance measurement.

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Datanomix, Flexxbotics to automate production monitoring for Universal Robots

Automation Mag

Datanomix and Flexxbotics announced a technology partnership to automate production monitoring in Universal Robot cells. Flexxbotics specializes in robotics process improvement technology. The partnership will allow Datanomix to access real-time operational data for Universal Robots from Flexxbotics through its FlexxConnect platform.

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Standardized Inspection Improves Throughput and Tolerances

Modern Machine Shop

The company also requires consistency between its production sites, so it needs a metrology system with support for revision control of its programs. To ease these ends, Deublin needed to find a system that could perform both contour and roughness measurement, rather than one or the other.