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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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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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Robot platform designed to develop range of semiconductor materials

Control Engineering

Previous efforts to automate this process have relied largely on automating the assembly line with one sample per chip moving through the entire data collection process. Conventional materials research requires a researcher to prepare a sample and then go through multiple steps to test each sample using different instruments.

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Five advances in motion control, communications, design to ease automation use

Control Engineering

The introduction updates electronics of CMMT units with the latest components that are easier to obtain than older ones and helps to eliminate supply chain woes, as well as improving performance and reliability. These assembly lines incorporate up to 20 handling gantries. CMMT-AS-MP compact AC servo drives are rated up to 6kW.

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Discrete Manufacturing Guide

ATS

Share Discrete manufacturing involves creating products by assembling individual, tangible parts. These parts are assembled in a specific sequence to produce the desired result. The production lines in discrete manufacturing produce products that are similar but not identical.