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While refining its processes, faucet manufacturer Moen Inc. (N. Olmsted, Ohio) ran across a suboptimal situation with its screw machines.
‘Dog-bone’-style carrier handles are applied at speeds to 60 cases/min by a pair of vision-guided robots, and it’s all governed by an industrial PC.
Dick Motley doesn’t pretend to be impartial. When it comes to robots for
the packaging industry, he believes that high-speed, articulated-arm
robots are superior to the ever more popular Delta configuration.
From sliced meat to late-capitalism, the reasons that vision-assisted robotic packaging applications have been increasing are many. Within this complex picture, though, certain trends seem clear.
A thorough evaluation of every phase of manufacturing with appropriate executive leadership can lead to cleaner manufacturing that creates far less waste.
Plant operators are turning to their automation systems to help measure and drive down their energy use.
H. L. “Leo” Staples Jr. is the 2010 International Society of Automation (ISA) President-elect Secretary.
Automation companies are taking the lead in finding ways to produce alternative fuel and power sources.
The ability of Ethernet to carry multiple protocols enables innovation in communication for effective manufacturing efficiency.
Service professional Douglas Morse sees a need to transform manufacturing from a product-oriented endeavor to one focused instead on customer success.
Plants are relying on new generations of more fully integrated control technology to run smaller, faster and more efficient machines.
As part of our research for our February 2010 feature on wireless control, Automation World spoke with representatives of two major suppliers of wireless instrumentation. When later conversations with users and others brought up additional issues regarding pricing of wireless devices, we followed up with e-mail queries to our vendor sources.
As part of our research for our February 2010 feature on wireless control, Automation World submitted a list of e-mail questions on the topic to Ed T. Ladd, director of technology programs at the Hart Communication Foundation (HCF), which oversees the WirelessHart standard. Following are Ladd's responses:
Determinism is still an issue for high-speed wireless control, but some factory users are moving ahead.
It may be controversial, but wireless technology is already being used in process control applications. How far and how fast will this trend go? Will we ever see an "all-wireless" plant?
After a short but action-packed adolescence, wireless sensing and instrumentation seems to be entering a calm middle age.
One company has modeled its manufacturing execution system (MES)
offering based on filling in the holes in enterprise vendor SAP AG’s
approach to manufacturing tools.
Some enterprise resource planning (ERP) is available as software as a service (SaaS).
The suppliers of enterprise resource planning systems have bolstered their MES applications to support manufacturing processes.
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