Control Engineering
AUGUST 30, 2022
According to the Association for Advancing Automation , of the 12,305 robots sold in Q2 2022, 59% of the orders came from the automotive industry with the remaining orders from non-automotive companies largely in the food & consumer goods industry, which saw a 13% increase in unit orders over the same period, April through June, in 2021.
NIST Manufacturing
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Earlier in 2022, NIST researchers released a simulation package that models the behavior of "discrete manufacturing systems," which include the production and assembly of finished products, like vehicles, consumer electronics, and consumer goods.
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Control Engineering
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
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Control Engineering
MAY 16, 2023
During Q1, non-automotive orders in consumer goods, semiconductor & electronics, plastics & rubber, life sciences/pharmaceutical/ biomedical, metals, and others purchased 3,519 robots, down 42% over Q1 2022. Automotive customers accounted for 68% of all robot orders in Q1, with 5,659 robots purchased.
Control Engineering
AUGUST 31, 2023
The strongest demand in Q2 came from the semiconductor & electronics industries, followed by life sciences/pharma and biomedical, plastics & rubber and metals, with automotive components, food & consumer goods and automotive OEMs showing the biggest drops.
Control Engineering
AUGUST 17, 2023
In a pick-and-place/bin-picking application, Kuka will simulate a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) production environment in a cell with KR 3 Delta Hygienic robot along with KR 6 SCARA (6-kg payload positions at a repeatability of +/- 0.02 seconds) and KR IonTec robot can help for food processing.
ATS
MARCH 13, 2025
Share Discrete manufacturing involves creating products by assembling individual, tangible parts. The production lines in discrete manufacturing produce products that are similar but not identical. What is discrete manufacturing? Vehicles are a classic example of discrete manufacturing.
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