Automation & Robots
Choosing an Appropriate Cleaning Solution
There are many cleaning trends coming down the pipeline, including automation and dry cleaning processes.
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Increase Throughput with Off-the-Shelf Automation
This automated parts accumulator is designed to complement any bar-fed CNC lathe, providing hours of profitable, unattended operation by safely collecting and organizing finished parts.
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The Collet is the Answer
A small workholding change helped this shop deliver the required part finish by resolving vibration and runout issues.
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Grinding—Really?
Working with Allways Precision, a systems integrator from Chicago, this shop is now able to produce motor drive shafts for one of its customers using a fully automated, robot tended cell. It’s working beautifully.
WatchRobots, Robots, Robots
Lately, I’ve noticed an increasing number of shops researching ways to implement various types of automation to improve their productivity through unattended operation.
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Flexible Automation on a VMC
Robot loading and unloading of the workholding that is used in the machining center facilitates the ability to change jobs during an unattended run.
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Convenient Robot Training
This training consists of course modules that are self-paced, with videos, interactive simulations and practice exercises that enrich the virtual learning environment.
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Automated Grinding Cell Adds Capacity
Like many shops facing changes in customer demands, Pennsylvania-based American Turned Products (ATP) is making the necessary adjustments and adding operations to continue to compete in the difficult, high volume market. One of those adjustments is the company’s recent installation of an automated centerless grinding cell.
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Developing a Company Plan for Robotics
It’s a good time for shops to re-evaluate the impact robotic automation can have on productivity.
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A Smart Path to Reshoring
Hybrid Racing was reluctantly planning to send more work to China when the company stumbled across MakeTime.
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