Automation & Controls

Society's rapid digitalization brings opportunities for the manufacturing industry to overcome challenges, minimize waste and ultimately become more profitable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Hurco MAX5 control is now even more powerful with the new 3D Import feature that includes 3D DXF technology.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.