Control Engineering

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The mobile robot market (AGVs and AMRs) has enjoyed strong growth in 2022, driven by increasing e-commerce penetration, a lack of labor and on-going shifts to more flexible manufacturing. These include scarcity of labor, the growth in e-commerce and the shift to flexible manufacturing. A positive pandemic rebound.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With IMRs becoming increasingly prevalent in industrial settings, A3 first established common safety requirements to guide IMR manufacturers, with R15.08 1-2020) published in late 2020. Part 1 (ANSI/RIA R15.08-1-2020) 2 now follows with requirements for system integrators.

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Control Engineering

MAY 23, 2023

“Collaboration” between humans and robots is now widely accepted so robot manufacturers suggest that the key to future success will be their ability to scale up production and develop new application scenarios. manufacturing downturn expected in 2024. will take slightly longer, with a U.S. recovery taking slightly longer.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Industries that stand to benefit the most include food and beverage, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, logistics and construction as companies are trying to fill labor shortages to keep operations running efficiently. to 2030 to reach a value of more than $88 billion.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

After four years, the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) returned to McCormick Place in Chicago. The largest trade show in North America was sidelined in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but came back in September without skipping a beat. Improving machines and workers in manufacturing. If Industry 4.0

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

China passed the United States in robot density for the first time as the nation is putting enhanced emphasis on robotics and automation to keep up with manufacturing demand. The number of operational industrial robots relative to the number of workers hit 322 units per 10,000 employees in the manufacturing industry. Robotics insights.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2022 thanks to long-term demand for industrial robots to be fueled by the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing sector. Following a slow 2020 due to the pandemic, the industrial robot market enjoyed substantial growth in 2021, witnessing a year-on-year increase of 34.9%. Robotics insights Industrial robot revenues grew by 14.9%

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Major firms in China, India, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, South Korea and other ASEAN nations are concentrating their efforts on the adoption of solutions and services across the healthcare, pharma, IT and Telecom, manufacturing and retail industries. Other key developments in the global market include: In August 2020, OnviSource, Inc.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2022

Labor shortages remain a problem for motion control vendors, but this is a common lament for many in the manufacturing and engineering markets. In 2020/2021, the pandemic created significant demand for automation which significantly boosted the outlook for the manufacturing industry.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2022

Historically, vendors like ABB, WEG, Siemens and Nidec have had minimal difficulty securing supply of key raw materials used in the manufacturing of their motors. Electric steel is used heavily in the manufacturing of electric motors. million cars were produced between these three manufacturers alone. In 2021, 21.2

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2023

Small manufacturers and commercial operations such as data centers all need to address potential electrical hazards. However, this positive trend is tempered because the number of nonfatal electrical injuries flattened to an average of about 5 per day from 2010 to 2020 (around 2,000 per year).

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The combined market share of the top 10 and top 20 leading vendors barely changed between 2018 and 2020 and indeed dropped in 2021. More vendors emerge each year and more industrial companies are launching AMRs.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lack of skilled workers, materials and the economy are biggest threats to manufacturing. Engineering Leaders Under 40, Class of 2022, September 6: The future of automation, engineering and manufacturing relies on the younger workforce, and these 36 individuals are here to advance their industries now and for years to come.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

In 2020, the largest industrial/commercial motor vendor in the world, ABB, released its EC Titanium motor. Both qualities are important in the context of cooling system applications, particularly when they are installed in the numbers often associated with data centers.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

AS-2020), said Paul Brooks, ODVA distributed motion and time synchronization, SIG Member, Comments were part of the Aug. That means I can get distributed motion systems absolutely synchronous with each other over time. 4, 2022, webcast, “How to Optimize Industrial Motor Communications,” archived for a year.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 25, 2023

growth in its low voltage ac motor market share since 2020, positioning it for potential market leadership. In late September, the world’s second-largest low voltage ac motor manufacturer, WEG, announced it would acquire the industrial electric motors and generators business from Regal Rexnord for $400 million.

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Control Engineering

JULY 21, 2022

Due to staffing shortages and major supply chain issues, manufacturers are willing to emphasize automation more to meet surging demand. Worldwide, 131 billion parcels were shipped in 2020, according to the 2021 Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index. Machine vision insights.

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Control Engineering

JULY 15, 2022

We manufacture robots. million between 2020 and 2024, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17%. Two RaaS options. Aethon’s philosophy has always been to be a vertically integrated company. So, we do our own engineering and design,” Seiff said. “We We sell the robots.

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