Automation

Automation

How Much Can Unattended Production Add?

Using a horizontal machining center, this shop kept production going through two 10-hour shifts per day. That seemed like a lot, but a pallet system enabled the shop to go even further.

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Automation

What’s Rotary Broaching, and How Did It Help a Robotics Team?

Rotary broaching enables CNC machines to create internal and external shapes such as squares, hexes and serrations. Slater Tool contributed its broaching technology to help a Los Angeles charter school program more effectively create components for a competition robot.

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Automation

Video: Automation Adds Jobs at Vickers Engineering

Rather than being a replacement for employees, this machined parts supplier says robotic automation has led to a doubling of the size of its staff.

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Automation

Reshoring, Robots and the New Factory Floor

Plastics processors are adopting robotics in a major way to compensate for a dwindling talent pool and reshored jobs.

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Automation

No Cage Required

The next frontier for robotic automation is near human workers.

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Automation

ComauFlex: Automation as Strategy

You can’t buy one. But you can buy into this approach to highly efficient automotive assembly automation.

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Automation

Industry 4.0

Industrial Automation North America 2014 and Motion Drive & Automation North America 2014 combine to introduce attendees to more than 170 global automation and motion control exhibitors.

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Automation

The Key to Success

It is clear that automation is becoming increasingly important to success in manufacturing. But what does it take to be successful in automation?

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Turn/Mill

Automated Cell Enables Easier Operator Access

Methods Machine Tools offers the Lathe JobShop Cell, featuring its Nakamura-Tome AS-200 high-performance multitasking turning center with a single spindle and single turret in a compact, heavy duty machine.

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Automation

Robotic Bin-Picking Automation Effectively Channels Random Parts

Liebherr Automation offers a small-workpiece-handling robotic system with 3D software capable of removing randomly placed items from a container and accurately placing them in a machine or production line.

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