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Guidance solution for robotic machine cells

Guidance solution for robotic machine cells

Meeting the needs of machine cells incorporating robots, HepcoMotion is expanding its range of guidance solutions for Beckhoff’s XTS with the new GFX-r – a system providing movement in rectangular paths. Based on the existing GFX design and incorporating the inherent flexibility and precision of GFX/XTS technology, the curved segments have been removed, enabling transportation […]

By November 29, 2023 Read More →
Optimal Group announces new CEO

Optimal Group announces new CEO

The Optimal Group, consisting of Optimal Industrial Automation and Optimal Industrial Technologies, has promoted Eamonn Garry to be chief executive officer and Martin Gadsby to chairman. In these new roles, the former operations director and vice president will steer the group’s next phase of growth, focused on offering customers future-oriented digital transformation solutions. Martin Gadsby […]

By November 29, 2023 Read More →
FANUC celebrates student success

FANUC celebrates student success

The winners of the 2023 WorldSkills UK Industrial Robotics competition, held in conjunction with FANUC UK, have been announced at an awards ceremony in Manchester. Representing the best of the UK’s rising robotics talent, Hannah Currie and Peter O’Neill from Northern Regional College in Northern Ireland beat over 50 talented young apprentices and students to […]

By November 29, 2023 Read More →
OMRON enters partnership with Lowpad for AMRs

OMRON enters partnership with Lowpad for AMRs

OMRON Robotics and Safety Technologies and Lowpad have announced a strategic partnership to expand OMRON’s line of mobile robots with Lowpad’s low-profile product offering. OMRON is a leader in the Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) industry, serving a broad range of industrial customers with payload requirements from 60 kg to 1500 kg. In parallel, Lowpad has […]

By November 28, 2023 Read More →
Automating end-of-line battery test and assembly

Automating end-of-line battery test and assembly

The experts at Yamaha explain that SCARA robots can bring fast and flexible automation to automotive battery production, providing a platform for accurate, high-speed handling of battery modules for end-of-line testing and assembly. Sales of electric vehicles are growing, as new styles are offered and usability and driving range improve. With environmental legislation putting its […]

By November 27, 2023 Read More →
Schmalz UK reinforces growth strategy

Schmalz UK reinforces growth strategy

Following the launch of the UK subsidiary in 2021, and the subsequent move in 2022 to new industrial and office premises, Schmalz UK continues its planned growth strategy with the recent appointment of Neil Turnbull as sales director. With some 25 years’ experience within the UK industrial automation industry, Neil’s key objectives include nurturing and […]

By November 24, 2023 Read More →
ABB YuMi cobots alleviate workforce shortages

ABB YuMi cobots alleviate workforce shortages

ABB’s YuMi dual-armed cobots are enabling the reshoring of production and helping to address challenges presented by workforce shortages for SUS Corporation, a major supplier of aluminium frames and die-cast aluminium components for the automotive and other manufacturing industries. “Reshoring is increasingly viewed as a way to address the challenges of disruptive supply chains and […]

By November 23, 2023 Read More →
Set up robot applications even faster and easier

Set up robot applications even faster and easier

Today, industrial automation is no longer imaginable without robots. The VISOR Robotic vision sensor from Sensopart acts as the ‘eye’ of the robot and is used worldwide in image-guided robotics applications. The most recent development provides problem-free connection between the vision sensor and a Yaskawa robot. The VISOR Robotic is part of the extensive VISOR […]

By November 22, 2023 Read More →
Robotic solution for automated paint centre

Robotic solution for automated paint centre

A good example of robotics specialist Yaskawa’s expansion into new manufacturing applications is the company’s involvement in a state-of-the-art automated robotic painting technical centre in Derby. The centre represents a highly advanced automated painting solution as a result of collaboration between the centre’s owners Peak Contracts, along with Yaskawa and paint supplier Graco. The centre […]

By November 22, 2023 Read More →
PI substantially increases hexapod production capacity

PI substantially increases hexapod production capacity

Based on a comprehensive analysis of the production processes for hexapods, Physik Instrumente (PI) has adapted its production capacity to the sharp increase in demand and is prepared to expand them even further if required. The focus of the restructuring was the optimisation and relocation of the entire hexapods production area to newly designed premises, […]

By November 21, 2023 Read More →