Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

The compact DIN-rail design of Ethernet switches allows them to fit easily next to a power supply, contactor, or relay. Ethernet allows the individual robot parts to communicate with each other and is suitable for VGRs because Ethernet can handle image data. Space inside a robot is always a limiting factor.

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i4.0 today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Over the past year, some notable success stories and deployments have been implemented by CoreTigo worldwide across various industries, including Food & Beverage Packaging, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Logistics, and other discrete manufacturing operations.

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Control Engineering

JULY 19, 2022

Many advanced tools can be managed on a tablet or smartphone and users can tailor them to fit the company’s specific needs. There are many safety solutions ranging from personal protective equipment (PPE) to alarms and sensors.

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Control Engineering

JULY 22, 2022

Eventually this mentality led to the discovery that, rather than examining each 2D material, researchers can detect where newly founded puzzle pieces fit. Likened to a puzzle piece, each conductivity curve assists researchers in assembling a larger puzzle.

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Control Engineering

JULY 15, 2022

The software enables users to model, test and refine complete applications to see how they would fit into a production environment and assess the potential benefits that could be derived by making a switch to robotic automation. – This originally appeared on Control Engineering Europe’s website.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Robotics insights Engineers at CU Boulder have designed a miniature robot that weighs less than a ping-pong ball and can fit in a human’s hand. Several of these robots can easily fit into a person’s hand, and each weighs less than a ping-pong ball.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

It empowers engineers to program in the languages they know best or that best fit the application using IEC 61131-3 programming languages and object-oriented extensions, function blocks and computer science standards. The end-to-end engineering and runtime environment for PLCs, motion control, and IoT apiplications.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The researchers demonstrated the ability of the asymmetrical soft robot design to navigate more complex mazes – including mazes with moving walls – and fit through spaces narrower than its body size. Instead, its ability to move in arcs allows it to essentially wiggle its way free.”

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 27, 2022

This also allows any researcher to build 3D bioprinters tailored to fit their own research needs. In order to 3D print the ink, researchers in the Gaharwar Laboratory designed a cost-effective, open-source, multi-head 3D bioprinter that is fully functional and customizable, running on open-source tools and freeware.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They used fast algorithms to generate segmented boxes and fit a diverse set of 3D objects into each segment, ensuring tight packing, stable poses, and collision-free solutions. Humans would need to solve each problem with traditional slow methods, making the cost to generate such data prohibitive, Yang said.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 1, 2023

While many AMRs can fit any given application, an under-rider AMR can be valuable. Numerous environmental, cultural and technical factors go into setting up a fleet that yields a strong return-on-investment and fits a company’s application. Finding the right application for an AMR isn’t as simple as pulling a task out of a hat.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

Physical analysis of these models often yields a useful structure for the purposes of control — one that you might miss if you just tried to naively fit a model to data. “Our approach is inspired by how roboticists use physics to derive simpler models for robots. But these approaches typically don’t learn a control-based structure.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 26, 2023

Lapeyre Stair showed, if your motion-control system is in the way, how a compact, alternating-tread stair design can fit over a conveyor, providing a mobile, lower-risk alternative to using ladders to get over conveyors. Courtesy: Mark T.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 13, 2023

Top 5 VFD parameter changes explained, 2020: Programming variable frequency drives (VFDs) to fit most industrial applications require only the most basic settings to operate the motor. Understand these 5 VFD parameter changes to optimize VFD programming to fit most motor-drive applications.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

T&W also created an AMR-based product to help customers use RFID in the manufacturing space. The AMR is fitted with a powered conveyor that picks up containers while contents are validated against a contents database to ensure the package contains items needed for the next operation.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Suitable for a range of loads and applications, the Robotic Item Picker can be fitted to one of three ABB robots: the IRB1200 (shown in the video and photo), IRB 1300 and IRB 2600. With a payload of up to 3kg and a reach of up to 1.65

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

One protocol cannot meet all needs for connecting devices, but a combined solution may be the best fit for many applications. When sensors and IIoT connectivity collaborate with robots, manufacturing systems become integrated and improve safety and productivity that provides “Big Data,” according to Knauer.

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Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2023

Hoske, Control Engineering Computer-numerical control, automated cutting, forming, welding In the cutting department, many layers of fabric are cut to fit using CNC automated cutting machines. Lasertube metal tube forming machine makes tubes from flat steel at Freedman Seating Co. Courtesy: Mark T. Sewing uses automated and manual machines.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 9, 2023

Finally, integrators that dedicate themselves to a certain niche and focus on contributing innovative products to that area of the industrial landscape are especially qualified to help manufacturers. An integrator that touts a “we can do anything” mentality may not be the right fit for specific end user requirements.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 23, 2023

It is a heavy-duty machine that fits the needs of any manufacturing environment with its full capacity bundle clamps as a standard feature. Designed specifically for small- to medium-sized discrete manufacturers that leverage Microsoft Azure for U.S. ″-x-15.” M1 ITAR’s solution will also be featured.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 27, 2023

What’s more, unlike the remarkable abilities of our biological brains, deep learning systems struggle with capturing causality, frequently over-fitting their training data and failing to adapt to new environments or changing conditions.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

Schechter: By fitting more into every tote, one customer realized about 40% truck savings, for an intralogistics and network-wide transformation. In the case cited, simulation software was not used, she noted later.) Kajuch: While one project was justified on ecommerce, a second part of the project improved picking for replenishing stores.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Because of the footprint, up to 24 of the modules can be fitted into a single node. According to Rockwell , “FlexHA 5000 I/O module is both reliable and flexible, allowing users to choose the I/O that best meets their operational needs.” This is possible because of its integrated design and reduced complexity.

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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.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Optimal operation depends on the quality, design and condition of the gear set; lubricants that fit the operating conditions; and regular evaluations and maintenance. and digital twins offer manufacturers an opportunity to improve safety by enhancing situational awareness. Machine safety insights Industry 4.0

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Control Engineering

APRIL 2, 2023

FarmWise, a start-up co-founded by Sebastien Boyer, is giving farmers a third option. The company has developed autonomous weeding robots that use artificial intelligence to cut out weeds while leaving crops untouched.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 17, 2023

Robotics are fit for repetitive tasks but don’t do well with the precision needed to cut up chicken products.” “It’s hard enough to teach people how to use a knife with precision,” said Dongyi Wang, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 10, 2023

That required some innovations in terms of getting the whole controller to fit onto this onboard compute,” says Margolis. . “Our robot can go in the wild because it carries all its sensors, cameras, and compute on board.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2022

Passive grippers can’t adjust to fit the object they’re picking up, so traditionally, objects have been designed to match a specific gripper. That gives us a very simple robot that can do one task with a specific gripper. And then when I change the task, I just replace the gripper.”.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2023

Related machine simulation is fit for digitalization. The motion-control combination serves stand-alone and networked machine market applications. Profinet and Pulse Train versions of single-axis ac/ac drive are available. It has a security chip and UMAC protection. Global standards for worldwide use including UL, CE and SEMI 47.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

EtherCAT communications: One frame, many nodes Bob Trask: Early on in my career, I was working with a group of people at Sercos, and they were figuring out that SercosII was the best fit for what they were trying to do at the time. They weren’t even talking about a controller. Even 20 years ago, the weak link was communications.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Scalable motion control technology, motor-drive communications Paul Brooks: One size doesn’t fit all. We feel that the items in the motion control domain need to be just by themselves, not to put any kind of security on and security above them, but they need to be robust enough systems that I don’t have to worry about any kind of attacks.

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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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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In Booth B7513, BLM GROUP USA (Novi, MI) will be demonstrating its LT7 lasertube with a new thread insert unit, which automatically installs thread inserts into laser cut/drilled holes using press fitting. A simple and widely relied upon joining technique, press fitting relies upon force and friction to hold two components together.

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Automation Mag

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And this is how machine vision can help discrete manufacturing, enabling them with automation,” Montanari explains. This will allow discrete manufacturers to be able to deploy the solution virtually by themselves, which would significantly lower the total ownership cost. Nobody has to code anything. A closer look.

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iBASEt

DECEMBER 19, 2024

When utilizing the best-in-breed approach to select an MES, manufacturers must ask pointed, industry-specific questions to ensure they choose an open architecture system that fits their current and future needs. Were your systems purpose-built for A&D or complex discrete manufacturing?

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