Automation & Robots
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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Video: Parts Accumulator Allows for Unattended Machining
One of the advantages of a Swiss-type lathe is that once you’ve set up the bar feeder, you’re good to go until you run out of barstock. This accumulator simplifies the other end of the operation.
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New Super-Efficient Assembly Line Improves Productivity, Flexibility
Studer’s assembly line moves machines forward through 16 workstations without requiring them to be relocated for additional operations, including test grinding.
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Cobots are Coming
Today, we are seeing the emergence of collaborative robots that use sophisticated sensors that allow humans and robots to work together without the need for guarding.
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Redefining ‘Smart’ in America
Colleges focus on teaching critical thinking; vocational schools focus on critical skills, along with a certain level of critical thinking.
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Automate to Eliminate Non-Value-Added Labor
Automation should free up employees to add even more, higher value-added items to your operations.
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Moving Automation In
This traditional Ohio-based screw machine shop worked with a system integrator and used its in-house expertise to create a sophisticated production cell to go along with its other automation forays.
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Robot Aids Additive Research
Delcam's ABB robot that's fitted with a cold metal transfer welding head will be used mainly for research in robot programming for metal additive manufacturing.
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