Automation & Controls

Products • January 24, 2019

Robot Dresspack Configurator

igus has developed a new robot dresspack configurator, a free online tool that can be used to find the ideal cable management system for virtually every robot available on the market.

Products • January 23, 2019

TM Series Collaborative Robot

Omron Automation Americas announced the release of an advanced yet intuitive solution for automating repetitive tasks in manufacturing. With built-in vision and a user-friendly, plug-and-play programming interface, the new TM series collaborative robot works seamlessly with humans to enhance productivity and ensure safety.

Articles • January 16, 2019 • William Leventon

Industry 4.0: Advantages of edge computing

The industrial internet of things would work better if computing tasks came down from the cloud.

Articles • January 15, 2019 • Alan Richter

5 stages of automation collaboration

Shop Operations: Safety the key to humans and robots working together.

Products • January 15, 2019

ND 7013 Model Digital Readout

HEIDENHAIN's newest digital readout (DRO) is now available to the market and promises to provide machinists with significant advantages and even more reliable tools to better utilize their manually operated machine tools (with up to four axes) than ever before. Called the ND 7013 model, this new DRO replaces the ever-popular ND 780 and offers an improved user interface and user-friendly touch screen, among other improvements.

News • January 10, 2019 • Alan Richter

Embracing automation

As the cover indicates, the February issue will include a focus on automation. In addition to Contributing Editor Kip Hanson's cover story about automating CNC lathes, I wrote about the productivity gains Camcraft Inc. is realizing after installing a Makino Machining Complex (MMC2) flexible manufacturing system.

News • January 7, 2019

Industrial internet of things: It all starts with a signal

The advantages and benefits of the industrial internet of things all start with communication. In industrial applications a simple event increases the advantages as it goes wireless.

News • January 7, 2019

What NY Times column gets wrong on robots

Robots don't take away jobs.nWhen companies lose to their competition, that's when workers lose jobs.nThere seems to be this idea: If the robots hadn't shown up, the jobs would have stayed. But nothing could be further from reality.nHere's the truth: We aren't using enough robots.

News • January 7, 2019

The robots have descended on Trump Country

The growing use of work robots and the deployment of artificial intelligence have been most disruptive in just those areas of the country that provided President Trump with crucial margins of support in 2016.

News • January 2, 2019

Universal Robots A/S marks sales anniversary

Odense, Denmark, December 5, 2018: When Linatex, a Danish supplier of technical plastics and rubber for industrial applications, bought a UR5 robot arm from Universal Robots (UR) to automate CNC machine tending in December 2008, they did something unthinkable.

Products • January 2, 2019

Zoller’s Collaborative Robotic Assistant – cora

The ZOLLER »cora« collaborative robotic assistant supports you in all standard tasks for tool preparation, fully automatically. Your tools can be picked, assembled, clamped, cleaned and labelled, fully automatically.

Articles • December 28, 2018 • Robert Weinstein

QC just got easier

Look-Ahead: Robotic system finds and records defects in finished parts.