BOSTON—Cognex Corp. is hosting a free webinar May 22 to present its new technology, called Hotbars, that promises to make reading bar codes faster and more accurate.
MAGDEBURG, Germany—Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF have come up with an automated visual inspection system that is reliable and economic even for one-off production runs.
BARRINGTON, NJ—Edmund Optics, a supplier of optical components for vision systems, is awarding $22,500 in grants to university programs in optical science.
Every plant engineer knows that solving simple manufacturing problems can often yield great benefits. This was the case recently for Silver City Aluminum Corp., a Taunton, MA, producer of custom aluminum extrusions and finished parts since 1952.
For the past half century, United Gear and Assembly (UGA) has supplied precision gears, shafts and related assemblies to companies in the automotive, agriculture, forestry, construction, mining, marine and rail industries.