The one constant thing about technology is that it is constantly changing and evolving. Don’t think so? In that case, ask the people who rushed out to buy the latest iteration of a smartphone, but then find themselves standing in line waiting to purchase the latest new-and-improved version just six months later.
Robots used to be thought of strictly as stationary machines. They were bolted to a floor, table, ceiling or wall and that’s where they stayed. But, that’s beginning to change.
One of the main challenges in forestry is removing bark from freshly cut logs. For many decades, the standard method involved loading logs into a hopper with a conveyor belt that moves the logs into a ribbed drum.
At Hitachi Metals Automotive Components USA LLC (HMAC), suspensions, exhaust manifolds and other components are assembled every day for all of the world’s leading automakers.
Not many people can be said to have truly shaped the course of global manufacturing. They include Henry Ford, W. Edwards Deming and Taiichi Ohno. We lost another last month.
BILLERICA, MA—Teledyne Dalsa is hosting a free webinar, “Machine Vision for Factory Automation,” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Eastern time.
MUNICH, Germany—Many industries are not yet automated as extensively as possible, according to a new report by the International Federation of Robotics and the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association.