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Automation and Robotics - Page 26
- From The Additive Report
A richer 3D printing file format is growing in popularity
- By William Leventon
- Jul 28, 2020
- Article
The 3MF Consortium wants to replace STL—the oldest and most popular format for 3D printing files—with the 3MF format, which allows a package of model information to be delivered in a single file.
- From The Additive Report
Additive manufacturing firms await better times to roll out new products
- By Don Nelson
- Jul 28, 2020
- Blog Post
AM research is focusing on metal printers for serial production, automated postprocessing systems, and high-temp thermoplastics.
- From The Welder
How to operate a robotic welder: Uniting welders and robots
- By Jack Moore
- Jul 22, 2020
- Article
Learn how to operate a robotic welder and how putting your robotic welding operation in the hands of a skilled welder can have benefits for your shop floor.
- From The Fabricator
The many roads toward automated metal processing
- By Tim Heston
- Jul 20, 2020
- Article
Because different metal fabrication shops have different cultures, customers and demands, their strategies for automated metal processing vary greatly.
- From The Fabricator
Ensuring reliability in your digital manufacturing infrastructure
- By Bill Frahm
- Jul 7, 2020
- Article
Without reliable components, a manufacturer’s IIoT network can’t deliver accurate and timely information on which to base decisions.
- From The Fabricator
Beam shaping and manipulation pushes laser welding forward
- By The Fabricator editors
- Jun 30, 2020
- Article
Our experts discuss how beam shaping continues to play a critical role in making laser welding more controllable and adaptable than ever. Learn more here.
- From The Fabricator
IoT technologies help to create agile manufacturers
- By Bill Frahm
- Jun 12, 2020
- Article
Without the instantaneous information gathering and analysis made possible by internet of things (IoT) technologies, metal fabricators and other manufacturers can’t make the best decisions and risk becoming a relic of the past like a disposable film camera.
Overcoming bottlenecks on either side of Industry 4.0 automation
- By Bill Kelly
- Jun 2, 2020
- Article
Implementing Industry 4.0? Digitization, connectivity, and transparency can revolutionize a process or even an entire business, but successful implementation requires a holistic analysis.
- From The Additive Report
Report: despite global uncertainty, additive manufacturing shows no signs of slowing in 2020
- Jun 2, 2020
- Article
The 28-page report includes an overview of each of the key segments within additive manufacturing, along with insights into unfolding trends.
- From The Additive Report
Robot: hard worker, seeks job in additive manufacturing
- By Kip Hanson
- May 21, 2020
- Blog Post
Despite being an advanced manufacturing technology, additive has been slow to adopt automation.
- From The Fabricator
How are manufacturing robots programming themselves?
- By Francois Simard
- May 13, 2020
- Article
Programming robots is often too time-consuming. Learn how self-programming robotics could change metal fabrication and manufacturing.
- From The Additive Report
AM: good for making lightweight metal auto parts, less so for mass production
- By Holly B. Martin
- May 6, 2020
- Article
The installation of additively manufactured metal components in cars and trucks has been limited by the industry’s need to mass-produce parts, but AM is slowly making inroads.
- From The Fabricator
Speeding up pipe fabrication at P1 Group
P1 Group, Lawrence, Kan., turned to automation to eliminate extra pipe fabrication processes and material handling.
- From The Additive Report
Wire-arc additive manufacturing can be used to build very large parts to near-net shape
- By Sue Roberts
- Apr 17, 2020
- Article
Collaborators Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions and Oak Ridge National Laboratories provide an overview of large-scale wire-arc additive manufacturing.
- From The Additive Report
Continuous fiber 3D printing takes AM in new directions
- By Kip Hanson
- Apr 7, 2020
- Article
Continuous fiber materials counter a drawback of AM: anisotropy, or the tendency of an object to exhibit different mechanical properties along different axes.
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