Automation & Controls

Videos • April 2, 2019

The New Standard in 5-Axis Machining

Take a look inside Okuma's GENOS M460V-5AX with Errol Burrell, machining center product specialist. Now with an increased capacity for 48 tools, this customer favorite just became even more appealing.

Articles • March 28, 2019 • Michael Deren

How your shop looks makes all the difference

Machinist's Corner: Michael Deren wants you to take a good look at your shop's appearance.

News • March 28, 2019

North American machine vision market grows nearly 10 percent in 2018

North American sales of machine vision components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines reached $2.874 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.2 percent over 2017 and a new record for the market. According to statistics from the AIA, the industry trade group and part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), application-specific machine vision (ASMV) systems led the growth with $1.998 billion in sales in 2018, an increase of 7.8 percent over 2017, followed by smart cameras with $466 million, an increase of 14.2 percent.

Products • March 28, 2019

V-417.336025E1 Long-Travel Linear Motor Stage

PI is offering the new V-417.336025E1 long-travel linear motor stage, providing 32 inches of travel (813mm). The direct drive stage achieves high velocities to 79"/sec (2m/sec) based on a direct drive ironless linear servo motor. High accuracy, repeatability and functionality are guaranteed by an integrated absolute-measuring linear position encoder featuring 1 nm sensor resolution.

Products • March 20, 2019

2200 Series Conveyors Certified as UR+ Solution

Dorner 2200 Series Conveyors is now a certified UR+ Solution that simplify robot and conveyor integration for a wide variety of automated applications. Easy programming, fast setup, and flexible deployment make the Dorner 2200 series suitable for systems that need an infeed and discharge to a Universal Robot.

Products • March 18, 2019

3D Import Feature Includes 3D DXF technology

The Hurco MAX5 control is now even more powerful with the new 3D Import feature that includes 3D DXF technology. This control feature allows the user to simply load the file they receive from their customer directly into the Hurco control.n

Products • March 17, 2019

D3 dryve

igus has developed a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution, the D3 dryve, for DC motor control that controls linear and rotary systems completely without software or a personal computer.

Products • March 17, 2019

Digital I/O Converter Kit

Integrating grippers with robot arms is often one of the biggest headaches when developing new robotic applications. A major obstacle is mismatched I/O signals between the end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) and the robot arm. To address this challenge, OnRobot is Iaunching the new Digital I/O Converter Kit to support seamless integration of its RG2, RG6, Gecko, and VG10 grippers with a wider range of both collaborative robots (cobots) and traditional robotic arms.

Articles • March 8, 2019 • Alan Richter

Surface roughness measurement can be challenging

L.S. Starrett's precision tool education manager offers the latest trends and developments in surface roughness measurement.

Articles • March 7, 2019 • Christopher Tate

CMMs automate part measurement

Paired with machine tools in a manufacturing cell, a coordinate measuring machine can collect, process and transmit data.

Products • March 7, 2019

Whisker Series Micro-wire Handling Components

BOLD Laser Automation Inc. announces the introduction of its precision Whisker Series Micro-wire Handling Components for guiding wire sizes from 35 (0.0056" in diameter) to 50 (0.001" in diameter) gauge.

Products • March 5, 2019

Top Modules

Nord Modules announced its entry into the U.S. market with a new series of flexible material-moving modules that efficiently connect production lines and internal logistics using autonomous mobile robots (AMR). The safe, ready-to-use and industrial-quality modules enhance automated heavy-payload transportation between production lines and storage systems and increase the flexibility of production lines by enabling companies to easily use the same AMR for multiple tasks.