
Automating small welding batches
Omron and AWL have joined forces to bring Qube, a flexible cobot welding cell, to the market. The cell makes it easier to weld small batches automatically.
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Omron and AWL have joined forces to bring Qube, a flexible cobot welding cell, to the market. The cell makes it easier to weld small batches automatically.

Hilpert Electronics is expanding its range of grippers with products from Schmalz for the efficient use of cobots from Techman. In the field of vacuum automation, Schmalz offers individual components such as suction pads or vacuum generators, but also end effectors that can be attached directly to the cobot.
The development of a new integration approach for a robot in manual assembly is a new research topic at the Chair of Production Systems (LPS) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB).
To ensure that production systems can be put into operation quickly and without errors, the robot controller and PLC must harmonize smoothly. Virtual commissioning saves time and costs.
Robotics is moving towards simple programming and installation. In practice, there are many alternative methods and approaches.

Robots are becoming increasingly easy to operate and program. What is behind this and how complex is the integration into production lines? Andreas Mühlbauer spoke to Jörg Reger, Head of ABB's Robotics division in Germany.

The editorial team is looking for exciting topics from the field for the Modern Assembly congress.

The EGH cobot gripper from Schunk was singled out by the jury for its intelligent design.

Comau presented its innovations for smart manufacturing in line with its "human manufacturing" approach for Industry 4.0 at Hannover Messe Digital 2021.

Igus presents a cost-effective and lightweight plug & play combination of gearbox, encoder, controller, force control and motor for service robotics.