While fixed systems such as conveyor belts and sortation machines have long been the industry standard due to their efficiency, they lack adaptability. They are also costly to modify, and often ...

Factory Automation encompasses the manufacturing and/or assembly of parts and subsystems to produce a product by passing it through a series of individual machines or work cells. Sometimes called ...

Quantum Devices, a U.S.-based encoder manufacturer, designs and manufactures high quality, high performance incremental optical rotary encoders for a range of industries and applications. As seen at ...

The demand for efficiency in modern manufacturing is higher than ever because customers value speed, precision, and cost-effectiveness. To stay competitive, machine shops and larger manufacturers ...

Simplified machine designs with fewer components run more efficiently and are less expensive to build. Older mechanical power transmission and actuator technologies, such as chain, rack and pinion and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are taking the world by storm. More and more we are seeing everyday actions turned into digitally automated tasks. While the construction industry hasn’t ...

Kamp Automation developed a mechatronic solution to meet a customer’s requirements. By automating a labor-intensive process, production capacity for an industrial electronic component was increased ...

Global spending on warehouse automation is poised to accelerate, driven by technological advances and rising labor costs, according to new survey data from UBS Evidence Lab. The findings highlight ...

There was a time when the term “automation” was synonymous with advanced manufacturing plants full of robotics. While replacing human labor with machine labor is a prime example of workplace ...

Most shops these days need some form of automation. It’s not just about the lack of skilled labor. For the sake of pure competitiveness, shops need to find ways to reap the best utilization of their ...

To meet the growing need for automated production systems, CompoTech has recently expanded its business to now offer custom built ‘turnkey’ automated fibre winding and filament placement machines with ...

Warehouse automation is evolving to move away from traditional, fixed systems (such as conveyor belts and sortation machines), towards more flexible solutions such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).