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FANUC to display industrial, collaborative robots for food and packaging

Robotics Business Review

Source: FANUC FANUC America plans to showcase its latest packaging and processing innovations in Booth N-5332 next week at Pack Expo in Chicago. The company claimed that it sets new benchmarks for payload, speed, reach and sanitation in robotic food handling. A CRX-20iA/L robot slides a tray of cookies onto a rack.

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RoboGrocery from MIT CSAIL is a soft robot to pack groceries, pick recyclables

Robotics Business Review

Source: MIT CSAIL As a child, I often accompanied my mother to the grocery store. Source: MIT CSAIL RoboGrocery handles more varied objects than other systems Traditionally, bin-packing tasks in robotics have focused on rigid, rectangular objects. ” It was not my favorite task. ” Zhang co-authored the paper with EECS Ph.D.

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

With a vision to emotionally connect an audience to a cast of prehistoric beasts, we used never‐before‐seen technology to set a new benchmark in storytelling through animatronics. Grantek automates pharmaceutical and food & beverage manufacturing operations, including integration with business systems for seamless solutions.

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Mastering Event Costs and Proving ROI

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Costs related to venue, food and beverage, and travel have risen across the board. For example: S trategic venue sourcing shows planners what similar events cost across hundreds of vendors, enabling negotiations to be backed by real, current data and informed by aggregated benchmarks.

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Emerging applications in motion control

Automation Mag

Typically, electrically-driven actuators are used when no air source is available, the application requires more than two positions or you require dynamic control of speed or force,” he explains. This approach also attracts new talent interested in development and design.

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Turnkey approach for automating first-of-a-kind red sorghum extract process

Control Engineering

Project background After several years of product development, the RedLeaf Biologics team had reached a point where extract from their unique red sorghum plant was commercially and economically viable for various markets, including food, beverage and cosmetics. The two remaining phases were tied to plant capacity benchmarks.

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Evaluating edge opportunities for industrial automation

Control Engineering

Figure 1: Emerson provides users with flexible ways to connect with all types of edge data sources, deliver on-premises IIoT and analytics, and provide local or remote visualization, while also enabling future connectivity between the edge and the cloud. Consider this example from a project to see how this works in practice.