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6 Benefits of Pick and Place Robots in Medical Manufacturing
Due to increasing market demand and strict governmental regulations, medical device manufacturers must maximize throughput while producing products with strict consistency in a contamination-free, sterile environment. For these reasons, pick-and-place robots present an ideal solution for material handling, assembly and other operations in this unique industry. The Unique Needs of Medical Device Manufacturing Like most […]
10 Impactful Benefits of Proper Safety Guarding
Industrial facilities are active places and host a variety of risks – from slips and falls to hazardous chemical use and storage to traveling forklifts to machinery with moving parts – that can injure or potentially kill employees. Accidents caused by these and other dangers can not only incapacitate workers, but they can also result […]
Reap the Benefits of Asset Monitoring with a Simplified Solution
Smart manufacturers know that monitoring plant assets is essential to maximizing productivity, minimizing downtime and optimizing equipment usage. Fortunately, current solutions drastically reduce the time and effort needed to conduct effective asset monitoring, making the benefits easily accessible to manufacturers big and small. This blog will highlight the advantages of asset monitoring, discuss use cases […]
Automated Machine Tending Improves Medical Manufacturing
While all manufacturers need to improve efficiency and cut costs to remain competitive, the stakes are higher for medical manufacturers as they also need to maintain tighter manufacturing tolerances and adhere to stricter regulations regarding sterility, safety and consistency. Automated machine tending can help medical manufacturers tick all the necessary boxes while also boosting speed […]
Human Machine Collaboration Optimizes Productivity
If you’ve ever asked Siri for the weather, ordered vitamins through Alexa or turned on the lights at home via your smartphone, you’ve collaborated with a smart machine to complete a task in the most efficient manner. Similarly, human machine collaboration is making possible a new era in the manufacturing industry where there are more […]
Choosing the Right Actuator Type for Your Application
Sometimes the choice between the three main actuator types – electric, pneumatic and hydraulic – is a no brainer. For example, if you need heavy-duty motion, a hydraulic actuator would be the obvious choice, a potentially explosive environment necessitates the use of a pneumatic actuator and a sterile operation would demand an electric actuator. But […]
The Rise of Electric Actuators
Traditionally electric actuators were not the device of choice for heavy-duty machinery, industrial equipment and other systems that demanded motion profiles with high forces and extreme robustness. However, reduced costs for these electric devices combined with recent technological advances are making designers reconsider electric actuators for use in these and other applications, giving rise to […]
Automated Inspection Systems Reliably Catch Packaging Defects
In the highly competitive packaging industry, damaged or defective packages can be a major drain on a packager’s profits and can result in lost customers. While there are any number of potential packaging defects, today’s automated inspection systems can help identify and prevent these problems, helping to ensure an error-free and more profitable packaging operation. […]
Troubleshooting Industrial Control Panels
Resolving Four Common Malfunctions in Industrial Control Panels Control panels vary by application, but they should always possess protective devices (circuit breakers and/or fuses), disconnecting switches, means for locking-out power sources, and means for safely bleeding stored energy. Typically, they also contain transformers, AC-DC power converters, motor starters, variable frequency drives (VFDs), servo motor drives, […]
What Can Machine Tending Robots Do?
Machine tending tasks can be repetitive, boring and dangerous work for humans, which makes machine tending a great candidate for automation. But what is a machine tending robot and what can it actually do in an industrial setting? This blog will explain the basics. What is Robotic Machine Tending? Machine tending, by definition, is the […]