Synchronized Mobile Robot Fleets Bring New Versatility and Investment Protection to Assembly Operations
A trend toward replacing those fixed, conveyor-based assembly lines with fleets of mobile robots holds the promise of another step change in manufacturing efficiency and new adaptability to market volatility.
What's Holding Back Robot Adoption? - With the UK Lagging Behind Its Competitors, What Needs to Change?
While it's hoped that figures will have changed since the IFR's previous report, the gap between the UK and other countries shows there's still a clear need to drive up robotic adoption.
4 Ways Soft Gripper Robots Improve Food Processing
Food processors often deal with challenges when delicate items are mishandled and broken or dropped. Soft gripper robots can tackle this problem, especially since many are specially designed to handle fragile items, such as eggs.
What are Resolution, Accuracy & Repeatability
Understanding resolution, accuracy and repeatability is critical to specifying a position sensor. This paper defines these terms and discusses how they relate to overall system performance.
Laser-Guided Vehicles: Supporting Sustainability in Manufacturing and Distribution
Compared to conventional lift trucks, LGVs provide more consistent throughput of pallets between manufacturing and distribution functions, less damage to racking, raw materials and merchandise, reduced labor requirements, and lower cost of operation.
Running on fumes? AI isn't possible without proper data management
Board members and C-suite executives are asking when AI pilot projects can begin, with a preference for a start date of yesterday. Meanwhile, the plant floor reality is nowhere near ready for AI.
Implementing the Most Efficient Picking Paths to Meet Crucial KPIs
In today's demanding market, efficiency of operations is an essential factor to remaining competitive. One area where there are often substantial opportunities for improvement is your warehouse pick paths.
Automatic Loading and Unloading of Pressed Parts Through 3D Container Inspection
The actual workflow that FrameSense is designed to automate is part of many manufacturing operations. A component comes out of a machine - here a press - and runs on a conveyor belt to a container.
Warehouses may be the first industry to adopt humanoid robot workers
With the news that Amazon is testing a humanoid robot - Agility Robotics' Digit - in its warehouses, we explore what the future looks like for bipedal robots in logistics.
CoaXPress over Fiber
Fiber optics transmit data as pulses of light through strands of fiber made of glass or plastic. When bundled with hundreds of other strands, the resulting fiber optic cable will transmit more data at faster speeds and over longer distances than high-grade copper cables.
Omron Introduces the SWIR Camera Series Enabling Precision Inspection Across the Manufacturing Process Using Short Wave Infrared Technology
The new SWIR Camera Series takes inspection opportunities to new avenues by featuring new infrared technology, versatile inspection capabilities, multiple unique interfaces, and one-of-a-kind heat dissipation technology.
SCARA Robot Sorts Recyclables Using a Simple Conveyor Speed Feedback System
As Everest Labs was developing their system to be sold to recycling centers worldwide, they found that their robot needed speed feedback in order to track the recyclables on the conveyor, and therefore needed a simple way to install conveyor speed feedback on a gear motor.
HARDWARE AS A SERVICE: A NEW PARADIGM FOR SERVICE CONTRACTS
A flexible revenue approach is a defining feature of HaaS, offering organisations a 'pay-as-you-go' model instead of the traditional CapEx hardware purchasing model. This offers manufacturing organisations, regardless of their size, several advantages.
Preparing Your Facility for Mobile Robots: Key Considerations for Seamless Integration
Successful AMR implementation requires careful consideration of several key factors: space analysis, floor conditions, and environmental factors, among others.
My Jewellery embraces the future of warehouse automation with innovative RoboShuttle solution by Geek+
This new system maximises space and reduces the metres made by staff at the warehouse thereby improving their ergonomic work space. It also allows My Jewellery to adapt to both B2B and B2C operations, another key factor in developing this AMR solution.
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