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  • October 2018 Newsletter: Automation – So Fresh and Lean

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    Brian McMorris

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  • How to Implement Industry 4.0 and Gain its Benefits

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    Brian McMorris

    One of the hottest, most important ideas in decades is the concept now known as Industry 4.0.  This is not a new concept, but is a continuation of the advancement of technology to support product manufacturing.  It demarcates one of those times when technology and society is beginning to intersect to change the way we

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  • RoboBusiness 2017, San Jose, CA Sept 26-28

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    Brian McMorris

    Next week will bring us in the robotics and automation space two big international trade shows: Pack Expo Las Vegas and RoboBusiness 2017 in San Jose, CA.  I will be at both. I hope to see you at one or the other.  Pack Expo always delights with all the new ways to manufacture and package

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  • ROBO: 2017 Global Robotics Industry Investor Report

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    Brian McMorris

    There have been several investor indexes created around the robotics market over the past 20 years.  I myself put together such an index in the 1990s which included Cognex, RVSI, Acuity, ABB, Fanuc, Adept and Yaskawa.  The problem with such indexes is the components were rarely a pure industrial robotics play (exception being Adept Technologies).

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  • TM Robotics with 7th Axis Machine Loading

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    Brian McMorris

    Here is a great example of untended machine loading / unloading. Add a mobile vehicle to transport parts for machining from a storage area plus #FELIX IoT diagnostic and analytic services and we have a "lights out" totally automated manufacturing facility.

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