OnRobot automates screwdriving and assembly work
With the Screwdriver, OnRobot is expanding its product portfolio with a tool that allows users to automate complex screwdriving and assembly processes quickly and easily.
read more...read more...The future of robotics
Developers from Lake Constance have turned conventional industrial robots into precise processing machines with eight interpolating axes. The turnkey CNC robots and CNC-R processing machines can be used for a wide range of applications.
read more...Automation in XXL format
Fischer GmbH, a tool manufacturer from Geringswalde in Saxony, has recognized the advantages of the Mikron HPM 1850U milling machining center from GF Machining Solutions: The company even produces the base plates for its largest tools automatically.
read more...Safety technology on the grinding machine
Grinding - with safety
Special grinding machines are used in the production of silicon wafers for photovoltaic modules. To ensure maximum safety and processing quality, one manufacturer equips its systems with special machine protection components.
read more...Seamless all-round view
The imaging of rotationally symmetrical objects for quality control in industry was previously prone to errors. A new system with four cameras ensures significantly higher process reliability in image processing.
read more...Taiwan Excellence Smart Machinery
Eight companies honored
Eight companies presented intelligent machines, networked manufacturing and automation systems at the "Taiwan Excellence Smart Machinery" press conference.
read more...Radio signals from the ceiling lighting
Researchers at Fraunhofer IOSB-INA and the OWL University of Applied Sciences are working on solutions to enable machines to communicate with each other on factory floors via light pulses in the future. The technology is not new, but the task now is to develop it further for industry.
read more...Simulate robots free of charge and control them cheaply
Igus has now developed control software for its low-cost automation solutions to make it easy to program robots. Robot Control is available online free of charge.
read more...Competitive factor know-how
At Motek, SKF Motion Technologies became Ewellix. We spoke to Swen Wenig, Managing Director of Ewellix in Germany, about the benefits of know-how and automation technology as a growth market.
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Driven through the crisis
Who would have thought at the beginning of March that a few weeks later, many production facilities would be running on the back burner or shut down completely? The VDMA conducted a survey of almost 1,000 of its members, according to which the vast majority of manufacturing companies were suffering from massive restrictions at the end of March.
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