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Automation and Robotics - Page 14
- From The Fabricator
First steps in sheet metal automation
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 19, 2022
- Blog Post
In sheet metal manufacturing? Want to automate? Mike Schlagenhafer, manufacturing consultant for Acuity Insurance, gives some insight on how to start and build a process map. Part of the planning to integrate automation for metal fabricators involves detailing all the costs—not just equipment costs but also the integration, operating, tooling, and maintenance costs.
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How a metal fabricator's automation journey starts
- Sep 19, 2022
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Automation Talk, Season 1, Episode 2
As manufacturing consultant for Acuity Insurance, Mike Schlagenhafer, an industry veteran whose career began in 1979, helps manufacturers who want to start their automation transformation. In his experience, success starts with asking the right questions.- From The Fabricator
Beckhoff USA names South region sales manager
- Sep 16, 2022
- News Release
Beckhoff Automation, Savage, Minn., has hired Sixto Moralez to serve as South region sales manager based in the Dallas area.
- From The Fabricator
Hypertherm Associates updates Robotmaster offline programming software
- Sep 16, 2022
- Product Release
Hypertherm Associates introduced Robotmaster 2023, a version update of its offline programming software for robots.
- From The Welder
Miller’s automated Hercules GMAW system provides high deposition rates
- Sep 14, 2022
- Product Release
Miller Electric Mfg. LLC, Hobart Filler Metals, and Tregaskiss have announced the release of the Hercules single-wire, high-deposition, automated GMAW system.
- From The Fabricator
ABB survey reveals re-industrialization at risk from global education gap in automation
- Sep 13, 2022
- News Release
A global ABB survey has revealed a growing trend in U.S. and European businesses toward reshoring or nearshoring, and a significant education gap in the skills necessary for these strategies to succeed.
Automated tube forming can take sting out of labor crunch
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Sep 13, 2022
- Article
Across America, manufacturers and fabrication shops are using many weapons to combat the shortage of highly skilled labor. That’s where automated tube fabrication cells can help in a big way.
AI improves welding performance
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Sep 13, 2022
- Article
Novarc Technologies’ Spool Welding Robot uses the company’s NovEye control system to inspect welds in real time and learn from that observation how to perform successful welds on its own.
- From The Fabricator
Beckhoff boosts XTS movers’ capabilities with No Cable Technology
- Sep 12, 2022
- Product Release
Beckhoff has developed No Cable Technology (NCT), an extension of its eXtended Transport System (XTS).
- From The Fabricator
CAD-based robot welding programming for all lot sizes
To automate the welding and cutting of welded vessel parts, robot welding programming has to have some innovative features. Learn more about it here.
- From The Fabricator
Stäubli Robotics’ TX2 industrial robots withstand harsh environments
- Sep 7, 2022
- Product Release
Stäubli’s TX2 line of 6-axis industrial robots are designed for applications in all manufacturing environments.
- From The Fabricator
Beckhoff USA appoints I/O product manager
- Sep 1, 2022
- News Release
Beckhoff Automation has hired Azad Jafari as I/O product manager, based at Beckhoff USA’s Silicon Valley Technical Center in San Jose, Calif.
- From The Additive Report
Researchers engineer superelastic shape memory alloy for 3D printing
- Aug 25, 2022
- News Release
New method could lead to wider use of nickel-titanium SMAs
- From The Fabricator
Perfecting sheet metal fabrication bend
- By Felix Weigelt
- Aug 24, 2022
- Article
In a typical fab shop, parts spend the vast majority of their time not in cutting or bending, but sitting as work-in-process inventory. Machine, software, and interlinked technologies aim to change that.
- From The Fabricator
How automation shapes Kendall Howard’s fabrication business model
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 23, 2022
- Blog Post
Automation has become the cornerstone of growth at Kendall Howard, a unique product development and manufacturing company northeast of Minneapolis. In the first episode of our new series, Talk Automation, co-host and editor Tim Heston speaks with Kendall Howard founder Randy Herreid about how the custom fabricator has implemented system-wide automation for material handling and other processes to grow the business.
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