Data-Driven Manufacturing

Automation

Automation for 100 Years

De-Sta-Co celebrates its centenary throughout 2015. Through the years, the company has expanded its product line to reflect changes in the manufacture of automobiles, including robot end effectors and other automation tools.

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Automation

Collaborative Robots for DIY Automation

Next-generation, new-generation, co-worker — call it whatever; there is a robotics revolution rolling into manufacturing, warehousing, materials handling and supply chains worldwide.

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The Automation Bandwagon

Robots can be a bridge to the popular goal of lights-out manufacturing that many shops are in pursuit of.

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Improve Productivity with Digital Tooling Data

This system seamlessly interfaces cloud-enabled digital tooling data and intelligence with production, inventory, and e-commerce to optimize shop productivity.

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Turn-Mills

Tool Monitoring for Complex Machining

One of the biggest challenges to tool monitoring on a multitasking machine is coping with simultaneous cutting operations. Caron Engineering (Wells, Maine) designed a system to meet this challenge.

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Remote Access and Monitoring Reduces Service Calls

By implementing this system on its CNC turning machines, the company, Monogram Aerospace Fasteners (MAF), reduced machine tool service calls by more than 25 percent, saving time and increasing productivity.

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Automation

Automation for Your Machine Shop

A free white paper from Gosiger Automation discusses the reasons that metalworking manufacturers from small CNC shops to large-scale operations benefit from automating many machining functions.

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Modular Automation Package for Turning Machines

Here's a modular robotic automation cell for cost-effective, flexible part load/unload of turning machines.

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Automation

Automation System Loads up Expandability, Scalability and Precision

Determining the scope of an automation system involves trying to anticipate a facility’s future needs, and system design, assembly and installation can include long lead times and significant expense.

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Automation

Automation for the Front Office

Automation is what is propelling manufacturing today, and I’m not only talking about machine tool automation.

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SPC Innovations, In-machine gaging and attachments
Techspex
World Machine Tool Survey
SolidCAM
Efficient, Durability, Advanced CBN Abrasives
Kyocera
Marubeni Citizen CNC
Horn USA
Star Swiss-type automatic lathes