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Predictive maintenance. Automotive supplier Koki benefits from ABB's Ability Connected Services. The proactive service portfolio provides early warning of impending problems, making inspection and maintenance more effective.
read more...With the start of the new 2018 financial year, the global Yaskawa Group is operationally integrating its activities in the energy and marine sectors into Yaskawa Europe. The additional Environmental Energy division thus complements the existing Drives Motion Controls and Robotics divisions.
read more...Flexible production. Around a dozen industrial robots work in a smart factory in Norway. Omron's mobile LD robots and enterprise management software are used to intelligently connect the cells.
read more...ZEW and London School of Economics
According to studies, equipping companies with industrial robots has led to a positive job balance. The ZEW estimates that further automation and digitalization in companies will trigger processes that will lead to a 1.8% increase in employment by 2021.
read more...The SR-3iA with a payload capacity of three kilograms is the first model in Fanuc's newly developed Scara series. Fanuc is thus expanding its product line in the lower payload range with a cost-effective solution for high productivity.
read more...Smart Factory Hub network project
SMEs must also face up to Industry 4.0. The international Smart Factory Hub network project investigated how companies are preparing for the digital revolution and what can help them do so. X-Rob, a development from Profactor, is regarded as an example of best practice.
read more...Robot-guided palletizing systems
Robot-guided palletizing systems are one way of making machine tools more flexible. They minimize downtimes in the production of individual parts and enable unmanned production in three-shift operation. The interaction of the gripping system and clamping technology components is important here.
read more...Automation in sawing technology
Sawing with robot support. Automation and robotics are rapidly gaining ground in metal processing - including in sawing technology. Robot-assisted systems are taking over more and more work steps following the sawing process.
read more...With Fast Move, the fully autonomous ultra-flat transport robot for Industry 4.0, E&K aims to open up new dimensions in transport robotics. The vehicle presented at Logimat is highly maneuverable, individually scalable and can transport a wide variety of loads.
read more...Rollon shows how robot applications can be expanded to include a seventh axis based on the Actuator System Line modular system. The complete robot moves on a linear axis close to the floor and operates a Cartesian linear axis system with telescopic feeder.
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