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Automation and Robotics - Page 20
- From The Additive Report
Synergy Additive offers ‘laser-based solutions to complex manufacturing challenges’
- Jan 13, 2022
- Product Release
Shop welds, heat-treats, and additively manufactures parts
- From The Fabricator
Automation Controls & Engineering announces ISO certification
- Jan 13, 2022
- News Release
Automation Controls & Engineering LLC (ACE), Dexter, Mich., has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification.
- From The Additive Report
Australian 3D printing company Titomic partners with Boeing to test process for producing space components
- Jan 7, 2022
- News Release
Titomic says its additive metal-jetting kinetic-fusion process cuts waste 80% compared to subtractive manufacturing methods.
- From The Fabricator
Mid Atlantic Machinery announces automation company
- Jan 4, 2022
- News Release
Machine tool and fabrication equipment distributor Mid Atlantic Machinery, Harrisburg, Pa., has announced formed Mid Atlantic Machinery Automation (MAMA).
- From The Additive Report
Baker’s Dozen: The 13 most viewed posts on The Additive Report website in 2021
- Dec 22, 2021
- Article
Our top editorial topics this year include 3D printing-related stories on high-tech materials, medical devices, fabrication shops adopting additive manufacturing technologies, and 12-ft.-tall robots printing huge structures.
- From The Fabricator
How automated guided vehicles can change metal manufacturing
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 8, 2021
- Article
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) could change the metal fabrication shop floor and have potential in fabrication.
- From The Fabricator
8 ways to reduce the cost for welding operations
- By Roger Robey and Seth Perrin
- Dec 6, 2021
- Article
Shops can use these eight tips to help optimize the cost of welding, including consumable, gun, and equipment performance. The costs for welding can be cut!
- From The Welder
The pathway to rapid growth for one Indiana trailer fabricator
- By Amanda Carlson
- Dec 1, 2021
- Article
In a very short amount of time, Liberty Trailers and new owner Mike Teso have taken steps to grow the Fillmore, Ind.-based fabrication company through cultural change, which has added more employees, more revenue, and, very soon, an automated welding cell.
- From The Fabricator
Small-footprint PL80 robot from Yaskawa designed for palletizing, picking
- Nov 29, 2021
- Product Release
Yaskawa Motoman has introduced the compact, 5-axis PL80 robot.
- From The Fabricator
Autonomous mobile robots could change metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Nov 28, 2021
- Article
Interoperable autonomous mobile robots (AMR) could make automation more flexible, especially as you go farther down the metal fabrication value stream.
- From The Fabricator
Metal fabrication ready to take off in 2022
- By Tim Heston
- Nov 23, 2021
- Article
2022 could be a big year for fabricators that invest in technology and navigate the industry’s two main challenges: the lack of workers and a volatile supply chain.
- From The Fabricator
Automation for remnant management in laser cutting
- By Tim Heston
- Nov 16, 2021
- Article
Software has made tracking remnants in sheet metal cutting easier, but operators still manually remove and store them. Now, however, shops have automated options.
- From The Additive Report
Industry 4.0: misunderstood revolution
- By Don Nelson
- Nov 16, 2021
- Blog Post
Most people in manufacturing are familiar with the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution,’ but few are sure why they need Industry 4.0, what it is, or how to define it.
- From The Fabricator
A look back at FABTECH 2021: A turning point for automation?
- By Tim Heston
- Nov 16, 2021
- Article
Attendees at the FABTECH 2021 expressed a new sense of urgency. Metal fabricators and manufacturers need capacity, and shops need it now. Advancing automation capabilities seems to be best step forward.
- From The Additive Report
A talk with Thermwood’s CEO, author of a new book on large-scale 3D printing
- By Don Nelson
- Nov 15, 2021
- Article
Ken Susnjara, author and founder of router and 3D printer builder Thermwood, talks about making big machines and his new book on additive manufacturing.
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