Automation
Injection Molding: Faster Robot at Fakuma
New “speed” version is 30% faster than Engel’s standard viper robot.
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Add Automation to Your Lab
Robots are commonplace on the production floor, cutting costs and improving efficiencies for molders and other processors. Now, those same benefits can also be achieved in the lab.
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Robot Controllers Evolve Toward Greater Flexibility, Connectivity, Ease of Use
Robot controls have undergone steady and fairly rapid evolution. If all your robot controls are not of the latest generation, this overview could convey what opportunities upgrading may offer, as well as a sense of where the technology may be going next.
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Micromolder’s Business Rests On Four Key Technologies
The “four legs” that support Isometric Micro Molding are micro molds, micro injection molding, micro automation, and CT scanning.
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Are You as Automated as You Should Be?
The world around us is changing faster than ever. Our world of plastics processing is changing as well. Going with the flow is better than getting drowned by it.
Read MoreSmart Attend Gets Innovator Award
Canadian plastics group recognizes firm for its real-time production data technology.
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Injection Molding: Industry 4.0 Advances at Fakuma 2017
At October’s Fakuma fair in Germany, several injection machine suppliers will showcase their progress toward Industry 4.0 connectivity.
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Seeking Moldmakers That Are Fast…and Smart
Now in its 15th year, MoldMaking Technology’s Leadtime Leader Award is once again seeking out tool shops that get things done.
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Large-Scale 3D Printing Venture Competes with Injection Molding
With 160 FDM printers, a Brooklyn startup offers part runs up to 10,000 units—and soon perhaps 100,000—at prices competitive with injection molding.
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Sepro America Expands To Assemble Big Robots
Sepro America celebrated its 10th anniversary last week. showing off new space that will more than double its manufacturing area in Warrendale, Pa., including room for its first U.S. assembly of large robots.
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