Upgrade Your Old Manufacturing Operation with New Automation Many businesses rely on machines that are decades old, and those machines develop a great deal of wear and tear over time. Maintenance costs and down-time for repairs can be a costly expense and severely...
Project Spotlight: Automated Palletizing with Robots Manually palletizing can be slow and labor intensive, and with the current ongoing labor shortage, many businesses are turning to automated palletizing with robots to perform those repetitive tasks. Midwest...
Project Spotlight: Trigger & Bottle Assembly Line Looking at a spray bottle of glass cleaner at the store, one doesn’t put too much thought into how much work went into attaching the trigger to the bottle, or whether it was a person or a robot that...
Project Spotlight: Automated Picture Frame Assembly Automating high volume production operations is relatively straight forward: design a specialized machine that only produces one part. The rest of the time is spent to make it robust enough to do it at speed and for...
What’s on Our Floor: OnRobot Grippers In the automation world, many times it’s the End of Arm Tool (EOAT) that packs the most innovation on a system. The EOATs are where the robotic system interacts with the products moving through the cell. Specifying the proper...
What to know about cobots – before you buy one It’s easy to believe that most collaborative robots, or ‘CoBots’ are plug-and-play. Unpack the robot and after a few steps, it starts producing. Many times, this just isn’t the case. While industrial robotics are getting...
