Automation & Robots

Automation

Kuka Automated Mobile Platforms Streamline Operations

The KMP 1500P AMR features a 60-mm stroke and precision positioning, enabling it to transport up to 1.5-tons of materials and workpieces, picks good, supply lines and cells with materials and transport production parts in process linking.

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Automation

An Automation Comeback Story

Alexandria Industries struggled with its first robotic machining cell. However, the aluminum extrusion components manufacturer — now with more than 20 robots — discovered that by simplifying and standardizing its automation strategy, it could reap the benefits of unattended machining even for relatively low batch sizes.

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Automation

Walter Launches Metalworking Automation Service

Walter has partnered with a large network of North American system integrators and end-of-arm tool manufacturers to craft a turnkey automatization process.

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Automation

ATI Tool Changer Enables Reliable Exchange of Robotic Tooling

The MC-50 provides a solution for quickly changing robotic end-of-arm tooling by hand.

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Automation

EMO 2023 Press Conference Takeaways

Writing for the EMO Daily publication at the recent show in Hannover, Germany, led me to learn about aspects of our industry I might not have otherwise heard about.

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Automation

Machine-Tending Cobot Fills Night Shift

A collaborative robot helped this shop run a machine tool 24/7 when hiring someone for a third shift didn’t seem to be an option.

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Automation

High-Volume Machine Shop Automates Secondary Ops

An Ohio contract shop added a compact, self-loading CNC lathe to perform unattended secondary ops on a part for a key customer rather than running it on a manually loaded chucker.

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Measurement

The Advantages of Automated Shopfloor Gaging

This “parallel kinematic” gage offers the opportunity to automate and improve machining process control for shops endeavoring to move from sample inspection to 100% inspection.

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This Shop is Taking an Automated Aerospace Approach

A flexible manufacturing system helps an Indiana job shop run a mix of aerospace work for long stretches of time and function more like a contract shop.

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Automation

Tezmaksan Automation System Enables Seamless Integration

CubeBox enables users to program robots using visual elements, drag-and-drop functionality and predefined templates.

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