Dual-head robotic picking

The Motoman Robotics Div. of Yaskawa Americas featured a dual-head robotic picking system that handles up to 185 picks/min.

Feb 4th, 2013

Yaskawa America, Inc.

Yaskawa Compass Your CNC Navigator

Yaskawa Compass Your CNC Navigator

Part Coordinate System (MotionWorksIEC Feature Spotlight)

Part Coordinate System (MotionWorksIEC Feature Spotlight)

Conveyor Tracking (MotionWorks IEC Feature Spotlight)

Conveyor Tracking (MotionWorks IEC Feature Spotlight)

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More Rules and Realizations in the Era of Smarter Food

The FDA’s latest proposed rule establishes additional food traceability requirements, indicative of an impending shift in the global supply chain.

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Microsoft Extends Industrial Focus with Expanded Rockwell Automation Partnership

The aim of this new partnership is to connect development, operations, and maintenance teams through a “singular, trusted data environment” that extends from the edge to the cloud.

Pod Pack now operates 14 packaging lines producing half a dozen formats with contract packaging customers including all the big national brands, local regional brands, hospitals, schools, foodservice, and anywhere else you can imagine.

Coffee Pod Co-Packer Realizes Perks of ERP System

Between limiting downtime, speeding up throughput, and a host of soon-to-be realized improvements via ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software data harvesting, Pod Pack is making the most of its new ERP system.

SCG Chemicals plant in Thailand. Source: SCG Chemicals Business.

Asset Performance Management Developments for Oil & Gas

Siemens and Aveva announce strategic partnerships around advanced asset performance management capabilities for the oil and gas industries.

Brian R. May, managing director, Industrial North America, Accenture

Making the Shift to Industrial Product-as-a-Service Work

As the demand grows, learn why companies are now shifting from selling a product as a one-time item to offering customers a Product-as-a-Service route.

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Laying the Groundwork for a Self-Optimizing Plant

Aspen Technology embeds its Industrial-Strength AI, which includes domain expertise, into the product portfolio.

Daniel Cobb is a project engineer at Avanceon.

Downtime During Overnight Support: What to Do, What to Do?

Though downtime always seems like a good thing, there may be better ways to spend your time that can optimize operations and ensure that no other issues are arising.

VTM tubes filled with liquid medium are used to store and transport nasal swabs for viruses including SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19 Test Medium Production Ramped Up By 20,000% in Six Months

Viral Transport Media tubes filled with liquid media are used to store and transport nasal swabs for viruses including COVID-19. Sixteen integrated lines were designed, built and installed in 20 weeks to meet demand.

Beginning the Digital Transformation Process

In this episode, we connect with Bill Pollock, CEO of Optimation, to explore how industrial companies are moving forward with their digital transformations. We discuss how to assess current operations, avoid common mistakes, and apply metrics.

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How Artificial Intelligence Works in Quality Control

The use of artificial intelligence has been growing across the industrial automation space for the several years now. But do you really understand what it does to affect outcomes?

Florian Güldner, research director, ARC Advisory Group

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing

As more artificial intelligence-enabled products come into market, learn about the roadblocks these products are creating and how OEMs are working through them.

Linea HS 32k CMOS TDI from Teledyne Dalsa

Focusing on High-Speed and Accuracy in Machine Vision

The term machine vision covers an array of products with varying capabilities, that’s why it’s important to understand the range of functions you’ll need in a camera to address your particular production requirements.

Using a Hypervisor, one piece of hardware can run multiple virtual machines (VMs). Each VM bundles an OS, the application and any of its dependencies. VMs are easily replicated across different hardware platforms. Source: Advantech B+B SmartWorx

Understanding Virtualization for Industrial Automation

Grasping the concept of virtualization is an important factor in developing and deploying Industrial Internet of Things applications because of how virtualization enables scale, security, and portability, as well as speed and agility factors.

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COVID-19 May Boost Cloud and Edge Computing

Though there is much discussion of “the cloud” in manufacturing, its use is not as widespread as it might appear, though the pandemic may prompt expanded use.

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Automation and the Supply Chain

Connecting supply chain and production operations often stops at the ERP system. But given the disruptions caused by politics and pandemics, successful supply chain operations will likely require a closer connection to plant floor automation systems.

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How To Broaden Use of Remote Access

If CPGs are ever going to capitalize fully on the potential benefits offered by remote access technology, they need to start small and grow success rather than looking to quickly implement an entire complex plan all at once.

11th Gen Intel Core processors for IoT are enhanced specifically for essential internet of things applications that require high-speed processing, computer vision, and low latency deterministic computing. Source: Intel Corporation

Intel Targets Digital Transformation with New Processors

Highlighting the promise of the Industrial Internet of Things and Time-Sensitive Networking, Intel releases multiple new processors delivering artificial intelligence, security, functional safety, and real-time communication capabilities.

Cobots and the Rise of Lean Integrators

New technologies are known for changing how we do things as a society or industry. The increasing popularity of collaborative robots appears to be changing how system integrators are structured

Brian Fenn, vice president of operations, Avanceon

Accessing the Far Regions of Automation

As more organizations invest in remote access capabilities, providing information technology support can come with a few issues when it comes to troubleshooting and connectivity.

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What’s Keeping CPGs from Remote Access?

Planning to expand remote access technology use in response to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic is one thing; overcoming the long-standing barriers of resistance to this technology is another.

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What is Industrial Single Pair Ethernet

In this episode of the “Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered” podcast series, we connect with McKenzie Reed of Harting to learn about one of the more recent advances in industrial communications technology—Single Pair Ethernet (SPE).

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Trends in Adoption of Remote Access

In a just-released report from PMMI Business Intelligence, 29% of CPG respondents said they do not allow any remote access in their facilities.

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Manufacturing and New Automation Technologies - What is Around the Bend?

Predictive analytics, digital twinning, and augmented and virtual reality technologies are all finding uses in manufacturing operations – from line installation and maintenance to process training.

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Guidance on Industrial Blockchain Use

The Industrial Internet Consortium releases a white paper that provides direction on the use of blockchain applications for Industrial Internet of Things applications.

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Stratus Technologies Updates ztC Edge

An upgrade of the ztC Edge Portfolio addresses deployment simplification, as well as security, manageability, and performance enhancements.

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Technology Matters: IIoT Missteps, Cybersecurity Readiness, and Volkswagen's Industrial Cloud

Automation World explores a new report that outlines key steps around the Industrial Internet of Things many manufacturers overlook, how to assess your cybersecurity readiness, and why Volkswagen created an automation app store for its plants.

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Artificial Intelligence Advances Food Safety

Landing AI is helping food producers overcome not only the limitations of their human workforce but of traditional machine vision as well, using machine learning to better evaluate issues around food safety.

Will Aja, vice president customer operations, Panacea Technologies.

Technological Transitions During a Pandemic

As companies continue to operate while adhering to social distancing regulations and implementing contact tracing due to the global pandemic, the adoption of virtualization and mobility technology has accelerated.

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When Will AI be Common in Manufacturing?

Companies want to rely less on skilled labor and more on AI and machine intelligence, but currently only 1% of all manufacturers are utilizing this technology in their operations.

Quest developed a flexible robotic system to load meat and poultry into an Ossid ReeForm E40 thermoformer.

Robotics Special Report: Food-Safe Solutions Emerge

New opportunities for the direct and indirect handling of foods emerge as manufacturers begin developing robots for handling unpacked goods.

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Workers Wanted? Contact the Robot Employment Agency

Start-up MusashiAI introduces intelligent autonomous robots for quality inspection and forklift driving—allowing the redistribution of human labor to more value-added jobs.

The T5 pick-and-place delta robot from Gerhard Schubert GmbH features a fifth axis that allows for high performance in small spaces.

Special Report: Robots Drive the Manufacturing Revolution

New innovations in robotics for the packaging industry enable greater flexibility, efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness for those CPGs looking to automate a range of applications.