Automation
Meet YuMi: ABB’s new collaborative dual-arm robot
YuMi can reportedly collaborate, side-by-side, with humans in a normal manufacturing environment.
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When Robots Make Sense For Part Packaging
Here are nine issues to take into account before automating your end-of-the-line part-packaging process.
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Biggest-Ever Chinaplas On Tap in May
More than 3200 exhibitors will fill 26 exhibit halls May 20-23, in Guangzhou.
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Truckload of Machinery Stolen on Way to NPE
Two molding machines, a mold, and a robot highjacked 10 days before the show.
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Time to Automate Your Insert Molding Job? Answer these questions first
The benefits of automation—precision, repeatability, speed—are particularly suited to insert molding, but only if you heed the insert’s desires.
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INJECTION MOLDING AT NPE: Molding Exhibits Show Off Cell Integration with Multiple Processes & Operations
If you’re interested in lightweight composites, IML, LSR, multi-shot, inmold assembly, barrier coinjection, micromolding, variotherm molding, foams, energy-saving presses, robots, hot runners, and tooling—they’re all here in force.
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Recreational-Products Firm ‘FLOEs’ into Forming
FLOE International got started making products for boaters. It still does. But now it also thermoforms extremely large parts, both for captive products and to support other thermoformers who need big-part capabilities.
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Why Five-Axis Cartesian Robots Are a Hit with Molders
Five-axis linear robots are proving to be a cost-effective alternative to six-axis articulated robots in many applications.
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Short-Run Specialist Chases Higher Productivity While Staying Lean
How do you automate jobs that run only a few hours? That’s only one of the questions challenging a fast-growing, short-run molder.
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