Project Spotlight: Welding and Milling Bus Bars Robotically With the current ongoing labor shortage, skilled welders are in short supply, leaving many businesses to rely more heavily on robotics to fill that void. Fully automating a 24/7 welding operation is not as...
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...
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...
Robotic Palletizer that Handles a Variety of Product Sizes Many don’t realize that robot arms can be equipped with an End of Arm Tool (EOAT) that is capable of cleanly grabbing multiple products at once. Check out a video of this system in action on YouTube. Midwest...
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...
What’s on our floor: The FANUC CRX Cobot A part of what we pride ourselves at Midwest Engineered Systems is keeping up to speed on the latest technologies in automation. With that in mind, we’ve brought in one of FANUC’s latest collaborative robots (or cobots) from...
