Automation
Yushin America Expands
The first phase of a two-step expansion almost doubles assembly capacity.
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Speed to Market: Pretium Stays Light on Its Feet And Ahead of the Pack
A visit to its largest PET plant illustrates how this versatile blow molder leverages design skills, a can-do attitude, and a high degree of production flexibility to supply custom products in ever-shorter time windows. A new thrust into automation will help pick up the pace.
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Wittmann Battenfeld To Expand Connecticut Facility
This space allows for the future growth for all three of its divisions: IMM, robots and automation and material handling and auxiliaries.
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Shiny New Hot-Runner Plant Is High Tech Showplace
HRSflow employs automation, sophisticated software tools in its first North American production plant.
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Up Close And Personal With Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer Robot
Without fail, whenever there are robots in a booth at a trade show, people are going to stop and stare.
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Study: Investments in Robots Create More Jobs for People
Contrary to popular conceptions, a new study finds that as industry has increasingly invested in automation, employment in manufacturing has actually risen.
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Wittmann Battenfeld Sponsored Manufacturing Day Event For Local High Schoolers
Students began the day with an introduction to both Wittmann Battenfeld and the plastics industry as a whole.
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Spec’ing a Robot? Match It To Your Press Size & Project
Where is your ´óÏó´«Ã½ today? What might tomorrow’s molding projects look like? These are among the questions you need to answer when deciding what style of robot is best for you.
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Advanced Styrenic Lets Molder Shed New Light On Automotive Part
Polyoptics teamed up with Styrolution to develop a ‘breakthrough’ process for light guides.
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'Talking’ Machines Pave the Way for Processing Plants of Tomorrow
At the convergence of smarter equipment, open communication protocols, and more powerful networks, a new shop floor emerges where groups of intelligent machines work seamlessly as integrated systems.
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