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Co-Operative Robots Take Center Stage
Dense clusters of robots, requiring no complex computation, can swarm like bees or a flock of birds to carry out tasks collectively and pave the way for robot ‘swarms’ to be used in the agricultural industry, for example, where precision farming methods could benefit from the use of large numbers of very simple and cheap robots.
Practical Success: Measurable Energy Savings in Die Casting Automation
The integrated control system inside this standard casting cell with trim press from Reis Robotics saves the Pierburg foundry up to 30 percent on energy consumption.
The Shop Floor Goes Mobile
Integrating mobile device technology into your manufacturing operations can boost your company’s productivity — but only if you create the right strategy.
Monitor CNCs Remotely with Tablet-Type Devices
For advanced smooth and accurate simultaneous 5-axis high-speed machining, remote operated 30i-B/31i-B5 CNCs from FANUC FA America boast the new High-Speed Smooth TCP with new fairing technology.
Game-Changing Machine Tool Operation with Smart Phone Convenience
The ProNumeric OP 50 M hand-held operating device from Schleicher Electronic represents one of the first times that a machine tool can be controlled with smart-phone convenience.
Machine Data Collection/Communication Device Features Fastest Signal Capture Intervals in the Industry
The WiBox 1.5 from Spectrum CNC Technologies provides accurate machine tool monitoring by capturing every signal, no matter the interval, in high volume, rapid cycle production.
Fossil Ridgebotics Team Demonstrates Competition Robots at Wolf Robotics
Wolf Robotics currently sponsors the Fossil Ridge High School Ridgebotics team.
Rechargeable Battery Unit Kit Provides Reliable, Long-Term Backup Power for CNC Machines
FANUC now eliminates the need for disposable batteries with their Rechargeable Battery Unit Kit for CNC machines.
Touchless Fabrication
The improved affordability of automation and its impressive returns on investment are sweeping through the shop floors of metal fabrication as robots and advanced motion control systems replace the human hands once needed to handle and process material.
Automation/Robotics
Automation is the individual use or integrated configuration of computer software, machines or other technologies ranging from fully mechanical systems to fully virtual networks, very simple to intensely complex in functionality, to carry out a task that would typically be…
Rethinking Bending Automation
Don’t attempt to adapt an assembly robot into a bending cell. New application-driven robots work alongside press brakes to simplify part programming and minimize cycle times. Instead, add process reliability enhancements and offline software and your return on investment for bending automation becomes clear and highly achievable. Here’s how to do it.
Automation Improves Press Brake Profitability
Robotic press brakes offer higher productivity, more flexibility and better profitability for the fabricator. Standard robotic press brake systems from Wolf Robotics include all components, less the press brake, to accommodate common sizes and weights of typical parts. Most press brake equipment is capable of integration into Wolf standard cells.
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