Automation

Automation

Updated Controls Make Feeders 'Smart'

Control package provides foundation for Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance.

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Simple, Intuitive Touch Screen Facilitates Measurement

The devices said to be Industry 4.0 ready and ideally suited for use in tube and pipe extrusion lines with increasing levels of automation.  

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Automation

Fakuma: Robot Makes Safe, Early Starts; Optimizes Path Planning

Engel is expanding its range of smart assistance systems at Fakuma 2021 adding the new iQ motion control to its viper series linear robots.

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Automation

'Smart' Feeders, Blenders, QC Solutions

Patented technology cuts additive costs, is easy to clean.

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Automation

Building a Better Mousetrap-Manufacturing Process

Increased demand for its products, which include rodent traps and more, lead Bell Labs to Wittmann Battenfeld to help it better automate its molding processes. 

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Automation

AMP Robotics Announces Milestones in Recycling Automation

A lack of data transparency, reliability, and consistency on the performance of material recovery has been a longstanding obstacle to recycling modernization. 

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iMFLUX Plots Path to Autonomous Molding

iMFLUX used a virtual event in May to lay out a path to autonomous molding where “the machine is making intelligent decisions on behalf of the operator.”

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AI Being Used to Sort Plastics Automatically

The technology from Metaspectral is slated for completion by the end of 2021.

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Automation

SCARA Robot Line Expanded

FANUC America says the newest additions increase reach and payload options for assembly, packaging, pick-and-place, and inspection processes.

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Enhancing 3D Printing with Machine Vision and AI

Wojciech Matusik, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Inkbit, talks about the company’s technology and key additive manufacturing trends.  

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