Industry 4.0 Through Metrology's Eyes
High precision 3D laser and CT scanning bring all the “big data” directly from shop floor to top floor.
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Improving Automation with Collaborative Robots
Learn more about collaborative robots, which are designed to ease the transition to automation by working directly alongside employees, with no need for safety caging.
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The Industrial Internet of Things is Here
In the future, more shops will be making more complicated workpieces using a variety of processes.
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Increasing Demand Calls for Automation
This company explored automated processes with a robot they previously purchased but had yet to use.
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Video Preview: Incorporating CNC Automation
Shop owner Steve Meyer's video interview summarizes how his shop incorporated CNC automation into the traditionally manual shop.
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Automation for Turning Applications
Automation systems can be configured to support many different requirements, including applications.
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Fast ROI Convinces Shop to Add Robotic Automation
“If we get a job that requires a process we don’t normally do, we have very few other shops in the area we can call on, so we figure out how to do it ourselves. This often means adding new technology,” says Cody Dolce, owner of Glacier Tool & Die.
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Automation for 100 Years
De-Sta-Co celebrates its centenary throughout 2015. Through the years, the company has expanded its product line to reflect changes in the manufacture of automobiles, including robot end effectors and other automation tools.
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Collaborative Robots for DIY Automation
Next-generation, new-generation, co-worker — call it whatever; there is a robotics revolution rolling into manufacturing, warehousing, materials handling and supply chains worldwide.
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The Automation Bandwagon
Robots can be a bridge to the popular goal of lights-out manufacturing that many shops are in pursuit of.
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Improve Productivity with Digital Tooling Data
This system seamlessly interfaces cloud-enabled digital tooling data and intelligence with production, inventory, and e-commerce to optimize shop productivity.
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Automation for Your Machine Shop
A free white paper from Gosiger Automation discusses the reasons that metalworking manufacturers from small CNC shops to large-scale operations benefit from automating many machining functions.
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Modular Automation Package for Turning Machines
Here's a modular robotic automation cell for cost-effective, flexible part load/unload of turning machines.
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Automation System Loads up Expandability, Scalability and Precision
Determining the scope of an automation system involves trying to anticipate a facility’s future needs, and system design, assembly and installation can include long lead times and significant expense.
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Automation for the Front Office
Automation is what is propelling manufacturing today, and I’m not only talking about machine tool automation.
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Technology Advances Automation Trends
Shops of all sizes looking for better efficiency are realizing the benefits of a deeper investment into automation.
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Single-Cell Automation Simplifies Shop's Growing Production
Ask Michael Olano, president of Dynomach Inc., how to be a profitable high-volume production shop. His answer: self-contained, single-cell automation, or more specifically, twin-spindle machines outfitted with bar feeders and automatic parts catchers.
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Programmable Gages Help Create Automation Cell
Conroe Machine (Conroe, Texas) is doing what most machine shops only dream of: hard turning a family of parts around the clock in an unmanned cell that operates a “self-controlled” process.
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Merging Turning and Automation
Hardinge Inc. recently demonstrated automated production of hydraulic spool valve housings on its T51 MSY SP Super-Precision turning center.
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