Transmission manufacturing requires several high-precision tasks. This is not news to Škoda Auto, a Czech automobile manufacturer founded in 1895 as Laurin & Klement.
There are many ways to run a custom machine building business. Some systems integrators are dedicated to a particular industry, such as auto parts manufacturing. Others specialize in a particular kind of assembly machine, such as high-speed continuous motion systems.
WASHINGTON—The National Institute of Standards and Technology is launching a simulation-based competition aimed at making robots more capable, versatile and collaborative, as well as easier to program.
SEATTLE—Boeing has been granted a patent for a fully automated assembly system for making airplane fuselages. The system consists of six assembly cells, a feeder line, and a robot holding area.
JACKSONVILLE, FL—Stenner Pump Co., a manufacturer of water treatment equipment, has deployed a two-armed Baxter robot from Rethink Robotics at its assembly plant here for machine-tending applications.
LIBERTY, SC—Cornell Dubilier, a manufacturer of power capacitors, has deployed two Baxter collaborative robots at its assembly plant here to streamline its labeling and inspection processes.
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.
FRANKFURT, Germany—The International Robotics Federation estimates that approximately 1.3 million new industrial robots will be installed around the world between 2015 and 2018.