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FANUC Partners with Jacksonville Jaguars
The team is using five new robots at TIAA Bank Field as part of their family of game-day staff during the football season.
How to Increase Uptime in Press Shops
Here are some of the ways that next generation lightweight tooling systems and new tooling components are optimizing stamping process safety, speed, uptime, cost and standardization, creating more efficient and reliable operations to satisfy stringent production demands.
Robotic Simulation to Bridge the Skills Gap
Because robots still only do what they are programmed to do and still require qualified personnel to build, operate and maintain them, savvy shops realize that creating a workforce skilled in Industry 4.0 technologies is key to future competitiveness – but certain challenges make this difficult. What should they do?
Versatile Forklifts Make Load Handling in Fabrication Shops Easy and Safe
Combilift provides customized equipment with lift capacities from 1,850 lb up to 200,000 lb for safe, space-saving and productive handling and storage of typical loads managed in fabrication shops.
Jig Magnets for Precise Positioning and Unbeatable Holding Strength
Neodymium On/Off Magnetic Welding Squares from Master Magnetics allow fast set-ups, accurate and powerful holding, and come with pre-tapped holes on all sides for versatile mounting on both flat and round stock.
How to Safely Transfer Metal Blanks, Stampings and Parts in Automated Applications and Press Operations
Transporters from Industrial Magnetics transfer metal blanks, stampings, perforated and odd-shaped parts in automated station-to-station, press-to-press transfer or robotic pick-and-place applications.
Free Standing Work Station Crane Improves Machine Tending and Assembly Processes
Free Standing Work Station Cranes from Gorbel provide operators with ease of use under load and holding the load where it should stay, with no drift or slide in the aluminum bridge, to make precision part placement easier.
Lift Magnet System Transfers Multiple Cut Pieces from Burn Tables at Once
The air-operated Burn Table Lift Magnet System from Eriez features a powerful magnetic circuit design with an extremely powerful and wide magnetic surface area that easily and quickly moves multiple parts or cut-outs up and off of burn tables at once, or lift single sheets or plates up to 3 in thick from a stack to load the table.
FlexArm Breaks Ground on New Facility
Their new $4 million state-of-the-art headquarters will house R&D, engineering, customer testing/runoff, manufacturing, and administration.
Universal Robots Marks Industry Milestone
They sell their 25,000th cobot and maintain 60 percent share of the global cobot market.
Small Parts Handling on Automated or Semi-Automated Systems
The AirPacer system from Automatic Tool Co. provides fixed precision pick-and-place motions controlled via a precision cam and powered by a pneumatic rotary actuator.
Low-Profile Organizers & Tool Bags for Jobsite Work
With cushioned shoulder straps, top handles, and side handles for flexible carry, PACKOUT Low-Profile Organizers and Tool Bags from Milwaukee Tool keep water and jobsite debris out of a large open space for tools.
