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

JANUARY 15, 2023

All this engineering takes a collaborative effort on the part of vision systems providers, robotic arm manufacturers, and robotic systems integrators. It isn’t a surprise that a major trend today is to purchase VGRs already equipped with a vision system supplied by the robot manufacturer.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Automate 2023 Day Three: Sensors gaining insights under the surface Manufacturers highlighted sensors and information systems designed to go beyond what is shown on the surface and give customers real insights.

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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

Safety comes in many forms and is a critical aspect of manufacturing operations. Many advanced tools can be managed on a tablet or smartphone and users can tailor them to fit the company’s specific needs. Safety Insights. It starts with fundamentals like awareness and having the right equipment on-hand.

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Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2023

See examples of manufacturing training at Jane Addams Resource Corp. Automated manufacturing insights Applications of CNC, robotic welding and metal-forming processes were described during a Freedman Seating Co. Examples of manufacturing training were shown at Jane Addams Resource Corp. JARC) in Chicago. Freedman Seating Co.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 27, 2022

Additive Manufacturing Insights. Texas A&M University has developed a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic native characteristics of highly conductive human tissue, which is needed for the ink used in 3D printing, or additive manufacturing.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

A sampling of exhibits covering automation, safety, logistics, robotics and other solutions that can be applied to motion control for manufacturing, warehousing, distribution centers and other applications. for asset-intensive industries the company serves, including manufacturing, chemicals, oil and gas, power, water and other areas.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

To meet current demands and assure innovation into the future, NPI expanded its 100,000-sq-ft facility with an additional 18,000 sq ft for storage and 25,000 sq ft of manufacturing space. The end-to-end engineering and runtime environment for PLCs, motion control, and IoT apiplications.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tom Knauer, global industry manager of factory automation with Baluff GMBH, spoke at a breakout session on implementing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions for robots using sensor-level protocols at International Manufacturing Trade Show (IMTS) 2022 in Chicago. Efficiency, flexibility and visibility through sensors in robots.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Both applications — the shipping/receiving RFID system and the manufacturing RFID system are autonomous. T&W also created an AMR-based product to help customers use RFID in the manufacturing space. Building upon earlier versions, the company used autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to replace all manual processes.

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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

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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lack of skilled workers, materials and the economy are biggest threats to manufacturing. Engineering Leaders Under 40, Class of 2022, September 6: The future of automation, engineering and manufacturing relies on the younger workforce, and these 36 individuals are here to advance their industries now and for years to come.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

Robotics aren’t only for the largest manufacturing or warehousing applications. Also consider wireless networks, cybersecurity, cyber-resiliency and where components are manufactured. Schechter: By fitting more into every tote, one customer realized about 40% truck savings, for an intralogistics and network-wide transformation.

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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

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

AUGUST 17, 2023

11-13 event includes “partners, vendors, and exhibitors are working together to create actionable sustainable solutions in manufacturing, materials, and design as well as through improved processes on the show floor.” Related machine simulation is fit for digitalization. Dow is the show’s official Sustainability Partner.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2022

Improving robots’ ability to grip and handle objects has been a major challenge for manufacturers because it limits what they can do on the plant floor. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, car manufacturing companies such as Ford quickly shifted their production focus from automobiles to masks and ventilators.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Predictive and preventive maintenance is imperative to reducing downtime on the plant floor and manufacturers are looking for solutions to improve longevity. Because of the footprint, up to 24 of the modules can be fitted into a single node. I/O module benefits, key features.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

A new Festo family of multi-protocol servo drives provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with productivity and cost advantages with less inventory, by preventing supply chain issues and working smarter with this family of servo drives. compares to the breadth of Festo motion solutions and support.”

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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

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 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

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 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

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

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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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Pavilions are dedicated to 3D/additive manufacturing; finishing; forming & fabricating; METALFORM; robotics & industrial automation; tube & pipe; welding; and welding automation. A simple and widely relied upon joining technique, press fitting relies upon force and friction to hold two components together. Debuting in v.23

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Automation Mag

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

R ising costs, a broken supply chain and a human resources situation that has been complicated by the pandemic have made it a challenge for manufacturers to stay competitive in today’s changing world. And this is how machine vision can help discrete manufacturing, enabling them with automation,” Montanari explains.

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iBASEt

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While this approach may have worked well for some, recent developments in open standards, AI, and the need to share data across systems are leading A&D manufacturers to choose open-architecture systems from various providers. Were your systems purpose-built for A&D or complex discrete manufacturing?

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