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Charging and discharging units
The MLL 3P and MLU 3P board handling components from IPTE are designed as multi-magazine loading/unloading units for feeding production lines with PCBs or removing PCBs.
read more...Lüchinger + Schmid is a Swiss trading and production company for eggs and egg products. The site in Flawil processes up to 80 million eggs a year. Previously, employees stacked around 2,500 packs a day onto pallets by hand. Now they are supported by vacuum technology from Schmalz.
read more...Investment in production and personnel
By investing in modern high-performance tools, Walther Faltsysteme is responding to the increasingly high market demand from the retail and e-commerce sectors. The result: shorter lead times and shorter delivery times. The company has also optimized two products 4.0.
read more...Hierarchical forms of management are out. More and more companies are testing self-organized methods such as holacracy. What is behind this and what benefits does it bring?
read more...High-tech production facilities
For the production of its new VX25 large enclosure system, Rittal is currently transforming its plant in Rittershausen into a factory of the future for enclosures. 70 new welding and handling robots are to go into operation in the networked factory.
read more...Talk about management and smart factory
In specialist media, digitalization and the smart factory are examined from a technical perspective. We now know that a holistic view is important. Heiko Weber and Marcel Derakhchan on leadership and culture in the smart factory.
read more...Human-robot collaboration offers enormous opportunities for manufacturing companies of all sizes and in all sectors. At the same time, it requires special attention when it comes to safety. There is an absolute obligation to assess and mitigate potential risks.
read more...The new E8FC flow sensors and E8PC pressure sensors from Omron herald a new generation of solutions for controlling industrial processes in which various liquids and gases are used.
read more...In the course of Industry 4.0 and batch size one production, components, spare parts or special shapes can be easily scanned and printed. This is made possible by a 3D scanner that works autonomously and in real time.
read more...The enhanced version of a proven sensor and a new four-camera sensor solution with top speeds in scanning and data processing now take the fully automatic "reach into the box" to the next level of performance.
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