Why Use a Flexible Feeder? Flexible feeding is the logical alternative to belt, bin or bowl feeding for automated assembly or packaging. Belt feeding utilizes a motorized conveyor belt to move product through a packing cell. The product can be on the belt in any orientation, its position and orientation is evaluated by a machine
Summary: George Wilken – will answer questions on the state of the art in Shopfloor Digitization, how it benefits manufacturers and how it helps achieve the efficiency promised by implementation of Industry 4.0. Q&A Style Agenda: Introduction of Speakers and Backgrounds The Problem: Robotics and Automation initiatives must be matched by digitizing shopfloor practices to achieve
Secure Remote Monitoring, Alerting and Access to Robot Automation Cells for Predictive Maintenance Summary: James Gentes – Founder and Steve Sickler – President, will lead the discussion. As more and more North American companies turn to automation to compete, robot System Integrators and service companies are asked to do much of the day-to-day maintenance and service
Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It is also know as the Smart Factory or "Lights-out Manufacturing". It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing[1[2][3][4] and cognitive computing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a large role in executing the smart factory as do industrial robots and autonomous mobile robots, which are
Some types of “artisan” bread, for example Italian bread loaves, are first proofed in an oven to cause the dough to rise and then are “scored” on top to create a split in the dough that when baked adds a pleasing crunchiness to the bread. Scoring has been done by a baker with a knife,