Assembly Line Discrete manufacturing Fit 
Control Engineering
AUGUST 3, 2022
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.
Control Engineering
JANUARY 15, 2023
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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Control Engineering
OCTOBER 1, 2023
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. While many AMRs can fit any given application, an under-rider AMR can be valuable.
Control Engineering
MAY 8, 2023
Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) High and low grips Many modern robotic grippers are designed for relatively slow and precise tasks, such as repetitively fitting together the same parts on a a factory assembly line.
Control Engineering
AUGUST 28, 2023
3D CAD configuration software for actuators, accessories Festo enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to lower engineering and purchasing overhead and bring machines to market faster with the company’s new online 3D CAD Configurator for pneumatic actuators and associated accessories, such as fittings, lengths of tubing and sensors.
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