Automation

Bar Feeders

Preparing for Lights-Out Production

As manufacturers face the challenges of reducing cost-per-part while meeting quality and delivery demands, adding a workerless third shift is a tantalizing possibility. It’s also a bit scary.

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Automation

Webinar: 3 Smart Ways to Make Your Swiss Parts 4x Faster

Don’t miss your chance to learn about how to increase Swiss parts’ speeds by joining Production Machining and your colleagues for a free webinar hosted by INDEX Corp.

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Automation

Website Zone Acts as a Hub for Bar Feeder and Material Handling Info

PM’s Zones section includes Bar Feeders & Material Handling, directing readers to features, news, blogs and videos on the subject.

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Automation

Captive Shop Must Still Compete

Often, a captive shop seems to have it made by job shop standards. In the case of this division of ITW Welding, “work is not given, it’s earned.”

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Automation

Robots Help with Consistency

Since Standby Screw didn’t have the necessary skill set in-house to integrate an automation system that they knew they needed, the company found Absolute.

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Robots are Great, but What About my Job?

In his column, Matt Kirchner says automation may change your job, but it won’t eliminate industrial employment. In fact, he believes it means more hiring will occur.

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What Robots Mean for Your Job

Automation may change your job, but it won’t eliminate industrial employment.

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Automation

Robot Monitoring Provides Safe, Flexible Automation

Working hand-in-hand with customers to further develop robot safety technologies, ABB recently introduced SafeMove2, which provides added capabilities to allow for the creation of more efficient and flexible production scenarios and to integrate safety fieldbus connectivity into the company’s IRC5 robot controller family.

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Automation

HEH Continues to Grow

HEH (Hagarty Eichele Hagarty) Group has added Advanced Spindle Technology (AST) to it’s stable of system integration, machine tools sales and automation service for the manufacturing industry.

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Automation

What to Consider When Adding Robotics

The successful implementation of robotic systems into a shop takes careful planning, from the type of robot to related components to shopfloor safety. Here’s an article that details what to consider.

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