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Helping assembly-line robots pick up objects

Control Engineering

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, car manufacturing companies such as Ford quickly shifted their production focus from automobiles to masks and ventilators. To make this switch possible, these companies relied on people working on an assembly line. Two of these were the wedge and a pyramid shape with a curved keyhole.

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Enhancing manufacturing with ERP: growth and efficiency unleashed

Manufacturer's Monthly

Image: Amonthep/stock.adobe.com Discover how you can enhance and streamline your manufacturing operations, boost efficiency, and drive growth for medium to larger sized businesses. Taylor elaborates, “We work with ambitious manufacturers who are being held back by various common issues.

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Manufacturers using digital transformation to future-proof operations

Control Engineering

Capturing manual assembly data Silicon Valley startup Invisible AI helps manufacturers digitally capture data from manual assembly lines to provide valuable insights and drive improvements. You may have 20 or 50 cameras on a line, all communicating with each other, all on the same local network. Watch a demo.

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Cameras give industrial vision-guided robots human-like functions

Control Engineering

Empowering a robot to ‘see’ allows it to precisely and consistently differentiate, pick, sort, move, weld or assemble various parts no matter their complexity. For instance, a multiple-step manual welding task on an automobile assembly line might take ten ‘blind’ robots to perform since each part must be mounted in place before every weld.

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Five robot trends for 2023

Control Engineering

The adoption of robotics helps to lower energy consumption in manufacturing. Compared to traditional assembly lines, considerable energy savings can be achieved through reduced heating. At the same time, robots work at high speed, increasing production rates so that manufacturing becomes more time- and energy-efficient.

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Four manufacturing applications that benefit from under-rider AMRs

Control Engineering

AMR insights Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can play a key role in manufacturing because of their name: They’re autonomous and do not require constant human intervention the way an automated guided vehicle (AGV) would. Some AMRs can that meet these requirements, with capacity to handle payloads up to 1,000 kg and 360-deg obstacle detection.

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AMRs and AMVs Create Safer Surroundings and Adjust Workflows Quickly

Fabricating & Metal Work

AI-enabled mobile robots can transform sectors like discrete manufacturing, logistics and laboratories,” Segura said. It lifts all types of load carriers for easy implementation into existing industrial projects to optimize warehouse processes, streamline assembly lines and enhance complex material handling.

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