Automation & Controls

The AI wizard is called Éncy (pronounced like [ˈɛnsɪ]) and it greets the user with the following message: "Hi, I'm Éncy, your SprutCAM X AI assistant. Ask away, and I'll be happy to help!" The AI assistant is powered by the OpenAI API, which uses deep learning models to understand and generate natural language.

PVI Esskå in Landeryd, Sweden, manufactures chassis and body parts for trucks and uses hydraulic presses supplied and installed by AP&T. In summer 2022, AP&T upgraded and future-proofed one of the company's press lines by rebuilding the control systems and installing new automation equipment.

Collaborative robots can provide a quick return on investment when the application is appropriate.

Fanuc America's M-1000iA industrial robot offers a 1,000 kg maximum payload capacity at the wrist with full articulation.

The Kentucky-built Mazak Ez series comes to Canada for the Western Manufacturing Technology Show in Edmonton from May 30 to June 1.

Robotmaster 2024 is designed for users who need to program multiple robots to perform a variety of processes within the same cell environment. The ability to program multiple robots enhances the programming workflow and gives the user a single view of the entire system to review the workspace for collisions.

Within the solution package, the safety laser scanner PSENscan enables safeguarding and productive area monitoring of mobile platforms. On guide path AGVs, PSENscan detects objects along the route, even at high speeds, and adjusts warning and safety zones in a functionally safe manner. PSENscan provides up to 70 protected fields.

Automated Payback – Universal Robots. Watch Cutting Tool Engineering's video coverage, featuring original footage and context from the related product, process, event, or shop-floor demonstration.

Automated Payback – Stäubli. Watch Cutting Tool Engineering's video coverage, featuring original footage and context from the related product, process, event, or shop-floor demonstration.

Video supplement to the "Automated Payback" cover story in the May 2023 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Playlist includes videos from Stäubli Corp. and Universal Robots USA.

The MC3603 which owing to its compact size is ideal for integration in equipment manufacturing and medical technology applications. With 36 V and 3 A (peak current 9 A), the new Motion Controller covers the medium power range up to approx. 100 W. It is suitable for "normal" DC-motors with encoder, brushless drives and linear motors.

The transnational 'EuProGigant' project aims to ensure smart, sovereign use of data for production and bring this to Europe.