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CynLr raises Series A funding to realize robot vision for ‘universal factory’

Robotics Business Review

Source: CynLr CynLr, or Cybernetics Laboratory, today said it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. It is developing technology to enable robots to manipulate objects of any shape, color, size, and form toward its “universal factory” or “factory-as-a-product” concept.

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Indexable Drill Heads Double Profitability

Modern Machine Shop

Part production is often hampered by a single operation — often a single critical feature that, for whatever reason, creates a bottleneck that dramatically alters the profitability of a job. Secondly, the drills had to handle the cutting conditions needed to reliably produce holes fast enough to eliminate the production bottleneck.

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Realtime Robotics Optimization system for workcell motion planning wins IERA recognition

Robotics Business Review

Source: Realtime Robotics While conventional manufacturing involves robots working along a well-defined production line, software can enable multiple robots to work together more closely without collision for more complex and flexible processes. The Optimization system generates motion plans and avoids collisions in multi-robot workcells.

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Identifying and Eliminating the 8 Forms of Waste in Manufacturing

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Reduce this waste area through two key steps: Source-based quality control : Implement procedures at each manufacturing stage that integrate quality control to avoid wasted time on correcting a defect and assign quality control and reporting at the source. Inventory (Excess) Excess inventory may be a result of overproduction (i.e.,

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Right-shoring and Innovation in Oral Dosage Forms Emerge as Top Growth Opportunities for Small Molecule Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations (CDMO)

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

The sourcing of key raw materials by Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations CDMOs was severely impacted and continues as a significant bottleneck post-COVID. Therefore, a multi-sourcing strategy and right-shoring to address cost and efficiency concerns are transforming CDMOs.

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Seeing, Fulfilling Production Machine Shop Needs

Modern Machine Shop

Source: Modern Machine Shop I’ve spent the past two decades visiting and writing about machine shops for Gardner Business Media, currently as editor-in-chief of the Production Machining brand. WIP is a form of waste. Machine shops producing parts in high volumes face challenges that low-volume operations might not encounter.

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SMED in Manufacturing

ATS

The benefits are substantial, especially when applied at bottleneck processes. This eliminates variability in changeover time, which is a source of unpredictability in manufacturing. However, the team can’t be formed completely until the target machine is chosen. SMED benefits will be maximized by targeting a bottleneck machine.