Automation
The Employee-Owned Advantage
This Ohio shop is 100-percent employee-owned. Thus, both management and shopfloor employees recognize the importance of optimizing efficiency wherever possible. Thanks to a strong willingness to invest in and embrace new technologies, sales-per-employee has increased by more than 50 percent in the last five years.
Read MoreConsortium Aims to Overcome Robot Limitations
CAD/CAM developer Delcam recently hosted the inaugural meeting of the 8-million-euro COMET project in Alicante, Spain.
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Five-Axis Automation for Medical Machining
Methods Machine Tools’ RoboDrill Med Cell is a complete pre-engineered, fully integrated production machining cell that automates loading and unloading of medical device parts.
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Fully Automatic Manufacturing Cell
Erowa Technology offers its Robot Dynamic modular system, which can be extended in all directions at any time.
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Toolchanger with Internal Utility Routings
Designed for use with various hollow-wrist robots, the QC-21HM toolchanger from ATI Industrial Automation is a QC-21 Master that enables routing air and electrical lines directly through its center.
Read MoreParallel Robot Increases Workspace Capabilities
The Adept Quattro s800H parallel robot from Adept Technologies is designed for high speed packaging, manufacturing, assembly and material handling applications.
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Extended Reach Arc-Welding Robot
Motoman’s MA3100 “Master Arc” welding robot features an extended-reach arm that is said to reduce the need for tracks.
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Trade Show Highlights Italian Innovations
When the doors closed on the 27th edition of Bi-Mu, the biennial Italian machine tool, robot and automation exhibition, more than 60,047 attendees had passed through the halls of the Fiera Milano Exhibition Center in Milan to visit more than 1,223 exhibitors.
Read MoreMaterial Matters in Material Handling
A new marketing campaign from material-handling product manufacturer MFG Tray encourages end users to “think inside the box” and appreciate the performance benefits that composites can bring to their applications. “There are a number of instances in which composites are simply a better choice, and we’re encouraging end users to understand that the material really does matter in material handling,” says John Blicha, director of marketing. The company offers a variety of containers, totes and trays in stacking, nesting and nest-and-stack designs for an array of material handling, storage and processing applications in industrial, electronic, food service, pharmaceutical and confectionary applications.
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