Automation

Automation: System Promises Greater Flexibility for Molded Packaging

Integrated automation system can accommodate multiple molds and cavitation, from one to 48, allowing it to adapt to changing applications and volumes.

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industry 4.0

Automation: Vacuum Gripper Now Compatible with Wider Range of Cobots

Piab’s piCobot vacuum-cup gripper now fits all brands of cobots.

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Automation

Automation: Smaller Non-Marking Gripper For Smooth, Shiny or Perforated Surfaces

OnRobot’s gripper mirrors the microstructure of a gecko lizard’s feet.

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Compounding

Germany’s IKV to Build ‘Smart Factory’ R&D Center

Germany’s leading plastics institute bids to be a world leader in Industry 4.0 technologies.

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Automation

How Smart a Granulator Do You Need?

Some processors see value in grinders that communicate on a network, report preventive-maintenance data, order spare parts, and provide complete maintenance instructions.

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Mold Maintenance

Bigger, Faster, Lower-Cost Robots at K 2019

Three, four, five and six axes; high speed and high payload capacities; low-cost models; and collaborative robots made news at K. There were also QMC systems and AGVs.

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Injection Molding: ABB Robots Integrated Into B&R Machine Controls

Injection and blow molding machines with B&R controls can now integrate control of ABB robots.

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Automation

Teradyne Plans New Cobot Hub for Portfolio Companies UR and MiR

Teradyne, parent to Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and Universal Robots (UR), is investing $36 million in a new shared “cobot hub” in Denmark for its portfolio companies.

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Material Handling: Drum-Dumping System for Bulk Solids

Allows transfer from drums of all popular sizes weighing up to 750 lb.

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Automation

Asiamold 2020 Postponed Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

The annual event organized in part by Messe Frankfurt was to be help Feb. 26-28 in Guangzhou in conjunction SPS – Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou (SIAF); new dates have not been announced.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling