industry 4.0
Flexible Case Packer with Collaborative Automation
New Proco case packer incorporates a cobot arm and flexible packing programs with quick changeover.
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Connected Compounder
Fast-growing Alterra strives for “best-in-class” manufacturing operations driven by a custom-made Industry 4.0 platform.
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Arburg Augments Customer Portal, Extends Digitalization
Arburg is expanding its arburgXworld customer portal and Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) connectivity to all new Allrounder injection molding machines with retrofits for older presses.
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New Technology Adoption as a Business Strategy
As a company, is your adoption of new technology passive and by accident or strategic and planned?
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Take the Guesswork Out of Determining Screw, Barrel Wear
New technology from Glycon takes real-time measurements of screw and barrel wear and provides data to guide processors as to when the time may be right to swap out these components.
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New Player, Different Approach to Automation
Rapid Robotics is a new automation supplier that offers manufacturers an affordable rental model for “ready-to-work robotic machine operators.”
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How COVID-19 Did (and Didn’t) Change Automation in Plastics
The global pandemic invigorated longstanding trends and new market forces to push broad-based adoption of automation and robotics from the incremental to the inexorable.
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Arburg Acquires Drive and Automation Company
The injection molding machine supplier has acquired its long-time development partner and supplier of electric drives, vertically integrating a key capacity.
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Remote Service Added to Machine Line
Boy says its Smart Remote Service establishes a connection between its service personnel and its molding machines via “an integrated gateway.”
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Medical Assembly Automation Supplier Adopts New Name for U.S. Operation
TechnoMed is now Tecnoideal America.
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