Automation & Controls

Videos • September 18, 2020

CNC machine tending with Haas ST20SS & UR5e

Watch a Cobotics Corner demonstration that helped a shop increase productivity by 34% using a Universal Robots UR5e arm and a Robotiq Dual Hand-E gripper on a 2012 Haas ST20SS, according to Fusion OEM.

Videos • September 18, 2020

Robotic CNC Machine Tending with Haas Mini Mill & UR5e

Fusion OEM recently came to the aid of a family-owned contract machine shop that was ready to automate. After visiting the shop, Fusion worked with the owner to automate two mills in a six-machine cell. Watch a brief demonstration of a robotic CNC machine tending operation on a Haas Mini Mill with a Universal Robots UR5e and Schunk dual pneumatic parallel gripper.

News • September 18, 2020

Production flexibility abounds with new multitasking series

The Integrex i-H series of multi-tasking machines from Mazak was designed to allow for additional automation technologies to be added onto the machine after purchase as a company's production needs grow and change.nn

Products • September 18, 2020

ImageIR 8300 hs

The ImageIR® 8300 hs extends this series with a new generation of high-speed infrared cameras. Combining the image format of (640 × 512) IR pixels with the exceptionally high frame rate of 1,004 Hz sets new standards. It allows thermographic images of excellent quality, even of extremely fast moving objects or highly dynamic thermal processes. Thus, exactly the moment that matters is captured with absolute precision, displayed with high resolution and precisely measured thermally.n

Videos • September 17, 2020

Programming autonomous bin picking demo

Universal Robots USA Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has introduced a pick-and-place kit to automate machine loading without the major integration and programming efforts usually required to install and set up an automated bin-picking system.

Products • September 10, 2020

PeopleCounter (PeCo) SensorApp

The PeopleCounter (PeCo) is a SensorApp developed by SICK that enables anonymous data processing and differentiation of people from objects over large detection areas. Based on the hardware of the MRS1000 3D LiDAR sensor, measurement data generates as a point cloud. The integrated PeopleCounter app reliably identifies people using their contours. This means it only counts people above the height of 1.4 meters, while objects are not counted.n

News • September 2, 2020

PI hosts automation, laser processing virtual tradeshow

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a provider of motion control and laser processing solutions, launched a virtual tradeshow on its website. The tradeshow features industrial automation and laser material processing products.

Products • September 1, 2020

Tool Monitoring Adaptive Control System, TMAC Version 3.0.

TMAC 3.0 has been completely redesigned with an intuitive streamlined user-interface that offers numerous configurations for viewing tool monitoring and sensor data. The TMAC system processor now houses its own web server, making the HMI (human-machine interface) browser-based, which enables real-time monitoring from any network connected device. Users (with assigned permissions) have live access to all TMAC systems on a shop floor from a single browser.

Products • August 19, 2020

V-817 linear stages

The V-817 linear stages, engineered for highly dynamic and precise motion, boast a load capacity of 600N, travel ranges from 8" (204mm) to 32" (813mm), and velocities to 3000mm/sec. Driven by 3-phase linear motors and guided by robust recirculating ball bearing guides, the low-profile design of only 63mm minimizes moving mass and tilting errors. An integrated linear encoder provides <1nm resolution and when operated with PI's industrial motion controllers, the stages achieve 10nm minimum incremental motion, 1µm bidirectional repeatability, and 2.5µm accuracy.

Products • August 19, 2020

Clamping Module Option for FlexMove Conveyors

The Clamping Module is ideal for totes, boxes, bottles and square, round and rectangular containers. As products pass through the Clamping Module, pre-programmed photo sensors trigger a pneumatic-clamping actuator that is mounted on both sides of the conveyor. The Clamping Module produces a gap of about one product length; product must be able to withstand some back pressure and squeezing force.n

Products • August 19, 2020

JETCAM Orders Controller (JOC) 3.57

JOC (PA) now fully automates CAD import, whereby a folder can be monitored for a CSV file containing details of DXF files to process, material, thickness, quantity required and machine to nest for. An existing system such as CAD, MES or MRP could generate a CSV file that would be immediately imported, tooled for multiple machines, nested, with NC code being available within minutes and all completely without any user intervention.

News • August 7, 2020

Visit Universal Robots USA Inc.’s digital Cobot Expo

If you didn't visit it live, then through Aug. 28, you still can attend The Cobot Expo, a North American digital trade show by Universal Robots USA Inc.