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New cleanroom version of the IRB 1100
ABB is expanding its robot offering for cleanroom manufacturing environments that require a high degree of flexibility and performance. The new ISO 14644-1 certified cleanroom version of the IRB 1100 combines fast performance in a compact design for industries such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, electronics, semiconductor and solar panel manufacturing.
read more...Hirata's palletizers and depalletizers are compact tray changers that are used to feed tray stacks, separate the trays or blisters, load or unload them with a SCARA robot or other robot kinematics and stack them again.
read more...Autonomous transport robots move freely through factories or warehouses. They are equipped with safety features to ensure that they do not collide with people, forklift trucks or shelves.
read more...Scientists at the Institut für Integrierte Produktion Hannover (IPH) gGmbH have developed software that allows automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to be controlled intuitively. All that is needed is a pair of AR glasses.
read more..."Intelligent Guided Vehicle (IGV)
The "ONE" is followed by the "OCF": Agilox is expanding its range of intelligent transport systems controlled by swarm intelligence to include an autonomous, omnidirectional counterbalance truck. The Austrian company is thus targeting the area of application of classic intralogistics in incoming goods, outgoing goods and warehouses.
read more...Pipe cutting system from MicroStep
The Italian supplier of carpentry, pipe and industrial equipmentOfficine Dabalà has invested in the ProfileCut series from MicroStep for the 3D processing of beams and profiles.
read more...IFR Yearbook World Robotics 2020
With 221,500 industrial robots, Germany is the most automated economy in the EU, reports the IFR in its yearbook. Also on the rise: the use of cobots.
read more...The Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has started to use robots in packaging. A collaborative CR-15iA from Fanuc now relieves employees of five tons per shift in 24/7 operation.
read more...MRK project from Omron and Kraus
A cobot project by Kraus and Omron shows how man and machine can work together. A TM12 cobot was optimized for automatic booklet feeding in medical technology.
read more...Moulding Expo 2021 offers a new highlight: the Road of Tooling Innovation. Without barriers and stand boundaries, toolmakers will show production concepts in action together with machine manufacturers.
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