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Motoman PL series from Yaskawa

With the Motoman PL series, Yaskawa presents a new generation of high-performance
of high-performance palletizing robots.

Design award

Gripper wins Red Dot Design Award 2021

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

Factory automation

Mechatronic platforms

The factory of the future will be more intelligent, more flexible, more networked and more software-based than it is today. The new mechatronic platform from Bosch Rexroth combines linear technology components with electronics and software.

Platform library for co-simulation

Putting factories into virtual operation

For mechanical and plant engineering, a simulation platform is a powerful tool for using digital twins to cost-effectively configure entire plants, including the control system, and to test and commission them virtually.

Workpiece handling

Stress field machining

High flexibility, dynamics and precision are required, especially when it comes to complex components. With a new series, a machine tool manufacturer guarantees reliable complete milling-turning machining.

Handling metal sheets

Highly dynamic press interlinking

An interlinking system transports up to 16 formed sheets for vehicle bodies per minute from one press to the next with millimeter precision and high dynamics. This performance is made possible by gearboxes, servo actuators and rack and pinion systems from Wittenstein Alpha.

Research

Model-based control

A research group at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) at the University of Stuttgart is working on models that also take object dynamics into account when calculating robot control sequences and trajectories.

Robots support logistics processes

Container unloading needs to be regulated

A sea container contains between 20 and 30 tons of cargo. Unloading them is a logistical, time-consuming and physical feat. This is where intelligent robot systems from Copal can provide support, with SEW supplying the appropriate drive and automation technology.

Roadshow

Igus goes on tour with low-cost automation

Getting to know automation despite social distancing and hygiene rules? To this end, Igus is now sending out a low-cost automation roadshow and visiting users with Robolink articulated arm, delta and gantry robots.