This was part of a Cartesian pick and place robot solution for handling packs of fresh food. Referred to by UPM as ‘SYSCON’ conveyors, the simplistic ‘groove’ design with side channels made from high molecular, ...
Tags: fresh food packs, Packaging, Conveyor
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
Global automation supplier Swisslog is celebrating the recent sale of its 1,000th AutoStore robot. The autonomous robot, which sits on the top of an aluminum grid as part of the innovative storage system, was sold to Competec as part of ...
Tags: Swisslog, automation
Bosch Packaging Technology will debut its Sigpack HCUL horizontal flow wrapper at Pack Expo International 2014. Sigpack HCUL packages up to 300 single blow-fill-seal (BFS) vials per minute. It also ensures hermetic packages, even at high ...
Tags: Bosch Packaging, Packaging
A few months ago, Schubert was approached by a German cosmetics company to build a TLM packaging line to cartonise aerosol cans. Schubert was also able to make it adapt automatically to can size changes. If the TLM robots require another ...
Tags: packaging line, aerosol cans
The picker line display groups chocolate bars on TLM transmodules, illustrating the functions which Schubert can configure from its standard components. The trade fair machine runs with an output of 600 bars/minute and visualises how TLM ...
Tags: Schubert, Flexible Lines, Packaging
Europe has started the research project “EMC2”, which is intended to increase the performance and efficiency of embedded systems for the automotive and manufacturing industries, the Internet of Things, healthcare and aerospace. ...
Tags: EMC2 Project, Europe, Electronics
BERLIN— CoreNet Global EMEA Summit –The emergence and adoption of new technologies, including 3D printing, Collaborative Robots and Big-Data, are now the driving forces in global manufacturing, according to new research launched ...
Tags: Customization, Consumers, Electrical
Manufacturing is an integral part of a nation's fiscal stability and prosperity. Nurturing and growing the manufacturing infrastructure is a critical goal for building and maintaining an economically competitive edge, reducing unemployment, ...
Tags: Robots, Industrial Equipment
Trobo is an interactive and huggable robot that reads stories to kids and teaches them about the world around them. A storytelling robot designed to teach kids about science and the world around them has taken to Kickstarter. Trobo the ...
Tags: Toys, Plush Robot
Film director Lance Weiler plans to launch his plush alien creation to the UK to encourage kids to read and engage with the world around them. Filmmaker Lance Weiler is heading to London to encourage children of the UK to step away from ...
Want blisters fast Integra 320’s pitch control system, together with Marchesini’s new cartoning section and carton opening and product insertion system, is able to boost production performance up to 320 blisters and more than ...
Tags: Marchesini, Packaging, Printing
Hiwin Technologies Corp. and Advantech Co., Ltd. have signed an agreement to foster?the formation of Taiwan's robot-industry cluster in order to?boost international competitiveness of Taiwan's robotic and intelligent-automation industry. ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
Speed reducer is one of three core parts of industrial robot, along with two others (drive and control device, servomotor), accounting for about 36% of the industrial robot's total cost. China has made much progress in industrial robot in ...
One of the side effects of the world's deciding to avoid gluten and an increasingly insistent need to produce food sources of protein, is a surge in the popularity of lupins - legumes like soybeans, peas and lentils. In Australia, lupins ...