Automation & Controls

News • August 19, 2022

Leveraging IIoT integration into your quality control plan

No matter if your business is producing 1,000 or 10,000 products a day, the risk attributed to poor quality management remains the same. Having appropriate protocols in place to consistently deliver reliable goods is essential to not just maintaining customer loyalty, but to sustain a business's costs and profits.

News • August 15, 2022

Tactics to counter the labor shortage

Manufacturers are struggling to find employees and as a result have had to get creative by making investments, re-skilling staff and automating time-consuming manual labor, such as deburring and finishing. Automating these processes results in more consistent, quality products in less time.n

Products • August 12, 2022

GN 817.7 Smart Pneumatic Indexing Plungers

The most recent indexing plunger development is pneumatically actuated. In addition, the part also detects both end positions with just a single sensor. This makes the GN 817.7 a logical advancement over the manually operated indexing plunger GN 817.6. The GN 817.7 can replace the GN 817.6 without changing dimensions or signal processing. The new plunger can also be used in hard-to-reach locations and integrates into automated processes.

Articles • August 11, 2022 • Christopher Tate

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Without skilled craftspeople, the Fourth Industrial Revolution won't have its anticipated impact.

News • August 10, 2022

Spartanburg Steel automates five-press tandem line

Spartanburg Steel Products automated one of its existing tandem lines with five large presses that were manually operated at the time. The solution was an AP&T SpeedFeeder.

Products • August 10, 2022

OB7 With OB Vision

Each of the OB7's joints can rotate 360 degrees in both directions. The cobot can sense collisions at every joint, a function that triggers a safe stop. The OB7 can also be stopped with an operator's hand and restarted with a tap on one of its joints. When running at collaborative speeds, guarding is not required. For high speed operations, a laser safety scanner is available.

Products • August 5, 2022

Automation Technology for Robotics (ATRO)

With a wide variety of modules, ATRO gives users the power to create almost any custom robot design within the rated payloads for their application – from a simple single-axis rotary indexing table application and delta kinematics up to multi-axis articulated robots. Expansive configurations with as many as 16 robotic arms are possible.

News • August 4, 2022

The seven pillars of Vollmer sustainability

A passion for perfection – for decades, this quote has stood for reliability and quality from Vollmer. The company has delved deeper into this concept.

Videos • August 1, 2022

Robotics Results: Beyond the obvious

Robotics Results: Beyond the obvious

Articles • July 25, 2022

Manufacturer turns to the cloud

CNC monitoring system provides company with a "smarter" way to collect, analyze and visualize performance metrics.

Products • July 25, 2022

Scytec Consulting Inc. Announces Partnership with CGTech and DataXchange Integration with VERICUT

Scytec Consulting Incorporated is proud to announce a partnership with CGTech and the integration of DataXchange into the Digital Twin standard VERICUT. This is an incredible offering for the manufacturing industry at large by making CGTech VERICUT infinitely more valuable by adding a robust machine monitoring solution via CGTech's new module called CNC Machine Connect in the launch of VERICUT 9.3 to enhance the quality of the simulation.

Products • July 25, 2022

Self-Contained Actuator for a Variety of Applications

Bosch Rexroth has expanded its range of standardized self-contained actuators by adding the CytroMotion system solution. With the help of the new compact actuator, linear movements involving forces of up to 110 kN can be achieved in a range of machines and systems in smaller spaces, more efficiently and more sustainably.