Control Engineering

AUGUST 30, 2022

For the third-straight quarter, robot sales in North America hit a record high, driven by a resurgence in sales to automotive companies and an ongoing need to manage increasing demand to automate logistics for e-commerce. Courtesy: Automate. The market grew 26% and 29% for units ordered and revenue, respectively, over 2021.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Industrial robotics insights The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) reported record highs in robot sales for 2022 as the industry continues growing. Driven by the resurgence in robot orders from automotive companies, the North American robotics market set all-time records in both robots sold and value in 2022.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 12, 2023

Robot insights The International Federation of Robotics highlights several trends on the robotics industry and where the future lies. Robots continue to grow in manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations. The adoption of robotics helps to lower energy consumption in manufacturing.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Robotic process automation insights. The demand is increasing for robotic process automation in healthcare, as robotic process automation can mimic human interaction. The global robotic process automation market is forecasted to be valued at $2.57 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $69.20

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Growth is particularly strong in North America and Asia, with China leading due to the mobile and industrial robotics sectors. Mobile robots are expected to account for a significant portion of the market by 2027. In China, the market is being driven heavily by both the mobile robotics as well as the industrial robotics sector.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Manufacturers are dealing with a flexibility gap, which is the range between viable small batch manufacturing and high-volume automation. Many companies are having a hard time finding workers and usable automation. Robots are being used to fill roles on the plant floor because there aren’t enough people.

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Control Engineering

JULY 19, 2022

Robotics insights. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed an optimization code that can be used to simulations for virtually any autonomous robotic system and improve a robot’s overall design performance. Autonomous robots have come a long way since the Roomba.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2019, ProMat was running concurrently with Automate, run by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), and each side had its own space. ProMat emphasized material handling and logistics; Automate emphasized robotics and automation. This is the way of the future in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

Vision-guided robot (VGR) insights. Vision-guided robot (VGR) technology has grown thanks to advanced in RGBD cameras, which allow the robot to accurately acquire 3D models. VGRs also are more flexible than traditional robots and the vision systems can make them safer, as well. Flexibility is another benefit of VGRs.

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2022

Taking a cue from nature, they built electroluminescent soft artificial muscles for flying, insect-scale robots. The tiny artificial muscles that control the robots’ wings emit colored light during flight. This electroluminescence could enable the robots to communicate with each other. The process adds just 2.5

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 22, 2024

CHICAGO and TORONTO — Pudu Robotics announced the launch of its industrial robot – the PUDU T300 , which will make its debut at the Hannover Messe 2024. According to an April 2024 joint study from the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the U.S. manufacturing industry will need up to 3.8

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 11, 2023

How to automate insights Automation continues to enable manufacturing efficiency with fewer experienced workers available, Control Engineering explains in the “How to automate” August 2023 print and digital edition. Industrial automation, including state-of-the-art motion controllers, need to effectively share data.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand how a sorting company upgraded their automation systems to improve operations. Automation insights NPI, a Texas-based mail sorting design company, worked on emphasizing and shortening the time to a return on investment (ROI) by upgrading its automation systems.

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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Apply today to the Canadian Automation Awards. This is a chance to showcase successful automation implementation within Canadian discrete manufacturing plants! The latest automation technologies and solutions can go a long way in managing problems and improving efficiencies in manufacturing facilities.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In a recent statement released by ABB, Marc Segura, president of the company’s Robotics Division identified three drivers for robotics-driven AI solutions in 2024. AI will drive new levels of autonomy in robotic applications Accelerating progress in AI is redefining what is possible with industrial robotics.

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Control Engineering

JULY 15, 2022

For robot suppliers, the challenge is to help make robots as easy to use as possible, reducing the time and effort needed by end-users to be able to confidently deploy robotic automation on the factory floor. This solution removes the need for programming specialist resources that has always hindered the uptake of robots.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 30, 2023

Workforce development insights Manufacturers’ biggest challenge continues to be attracting and retaining a quality workforce and the demographics indicate this won’t be going away as workers get older. Robots play a key role in automation growth Analysts are saying it. Manufacturers are saying it.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 12, 2023

Robotics insights The robotic picking market is expected to grow to almost $7 billion by 2030, which is leaps and bounds above where it is right now. Interact Analysis research shows the market for robotic picking is in the early stages of growth, but that it presents huge potential. billion by 2030. billion by 2030.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 9, 2023

Learning Objectives As supply chains are disrupted, baby boomers age out and the need for general use products continues to grow, manufacturers are faced with producing more with less. Robust yet intuitive robot capability is effectively addressing these issues, boosting manufacturing output and product quality for optimal productivity gains.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

Learning Objectives Explore what’s possible now in warehouse robotics and automation integration with a panel from The Robotics Group of MHI, at ProMat 2023. Understand robotic best practices, integration tips and lessons learned. Bill Vining, co-founder Robot Advisory Group. Naming the robots seems universal.

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Automation Mag

APRIL 4, 2023

Advances in automation technologies are transforming the industrial manufacturing landscape. Broadly termed “digital transformation,” these smart manufacturing initiatives bring physical and cyber systems together for greater performance, efficiency, sustainability and safety. Manufacturers used to have a choice.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 23, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn the tools that enable central control of an AGV or mobile robot fleet. Understand capabilities of software that helps with AGV and mobile robot management, routing, testing, validation to decrease time to deploy and increase efficiencies. at ProMat 2023, March 20-23 in Chicago , or ganized by MHI.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Robotics insights. Developments in hardware, software and artificial intelligence (AI) are making robots more flexible and resilient and able to perform more tasks in applications they couldnt’t before.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 18, 2023

Automation and manufacturing insights Automation and robotics are known for being used in manufacturing applications, but their potential is being realized in other industries such as agriculture, retail and medical. We need scalability and data,” she said.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A selective compliance articulated robot arm (SCARA) robot is designed for small part assembly and pick-and-place applications. SCARA robots excel in repeatability and accuracy. SCARA robots require a control system, which may house all the servo amplifiers, programming logic and functional safety. SCARA insights.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 31, 2023

Robotics insights The North American robotics market has experienced a significant decline for the second consecutive quarter due to a sluggish U.S. economy and high interest rates, resulting in a 37% drop in robot orders and a 20% decrease in value in Q2 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. A slow U.S.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 29, 2023

Manufacturing AI insights The integration of AI into discrete manufacturing aligns with the concept of Industry 4.0, which is characterized by advancements in technologies like the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and robotics. Of course, this isn’t news to anyone in the manufacturing space.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 8, 2023

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced two longtime industry leaders as the winners of the 2023 Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Awards, the world’s most prestigious robotics honor. They will be honored on May 24, 2023, during the Automate 2023 show in Detroit. safety meeting… so many years ago.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Collaborative robots (cobot) have been around for more than 15 years, and recent sensing and motion control technologies are improving quality while reducing weld process time on a 30-pass weld by more than 80%. Courtesy: Vectis Automation. Using a cobot to improve inefficiencies.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 16, 2023

ABB started construction starting on the expansion of its existing North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Mich. Our expanded facility will help us to better serve customers in the US and across the Americas, giving them access to innovative automated solutions.”

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Robotics Insights. Robots can help fill some, but not all, of the labor gap manufacturers currently face. The challenge is getting manufacturers to buy into the concept because they believe robots are too expensive and will take jobs when the opposite is true. Three myths about robots, automation.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 18, 2023

Automation and manufacturing insights. Automation is a rapidly growing part of manufacturing that touches nearly all end markets and industries today. Acceptance is growing, but some companies need to overcome financial and cultural barriers to fully adopt and embrace automation as a solution.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 14, 2023

At Promat 2023, Patrick Varley, product marketing manager for robotics at Mitsubishi Electric, demonstrated a line of selective compliance articulated robot arm (SCARA) robots with enhanced safety features aimed at companies that have little previous experience with automation.

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Control Engineering

MAY 16, 2023

North American companies ordered fewer robots in the first quarter of 2023 than for the same period last year. Automotive customers accounted for 68% of all robot orders in Q1, with 5,659 robots purchased. They also might be waiting to see the latest innovations in robotics at Automate 2023 next week in Detroit.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 7, 2023

Control Engineering top 5 articles online about industrial robot trends, logistics and robotics, what to look for in an integration partner and more. Also: See additional robotics stories here. SCARA robot technology benefits Selective compliance articulated robot arm (SCARA) robots are capable of many types of movement.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 12, 2023

Robotics insights The next stage in the evolution of robotics is mobility and autonomous operation. Modular individual transport (MIT) systems and automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems help manufacturers become more flexible and abopens up a new range of opportunities for manufacturing companies.

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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. Although the mobile robot market is now well established, and arguably quite mature in some respects, growth shows no signs of slowing any time soon.

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