Walk through almost any modern production facility and you will likely notice something that would have looked unusual a couple of decades ago: mechanical arms…
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How Are Collaborative Robots Changing Factory Automation
Walk through almost any modern manufacturing facility today, and you will likely notice something that would have looked unusual a decade ago: robotic arms working…
Continue Reading....What Is Changing in the Global Machinery Industry
What Is Changing In The Global Machinery Industry? The question is becoming harder to answer with a single trend. Machinery manufacturers and industrial users are…
Continue Reading....Collaborative Robots Are Entering Parts of the Factory Floor That Industrial Robots Never Could
Collaborative robots, or cobots as the category is almost universally called now, entered the market with a relatively well-defined pitch: lightweight, force-limited robots that could…
Continue Reading....China's Machine Tool Market Has Been Through a Rough Patch, and What Happens Next Matters Beyond China
China's position as both the world's largest consumer of machine tools and a major producer of them means that conditions in the Chinese market have…
Continue Reading....The AI Quality Inspection Pitch Is Real, But So Are the Deployment Gaps Most Vendors Don't Talk About
AI-powered visual inspection systems have become one of the more actively marketed technology categories in manufacturing, with vendors offering compelling demonstrations of systems that detect…
Continue Reading....Industry 4.0 Has Been the Industry's Favorite Buzzword for Years, and the Actual Adoption Rate Tells a Complicated Story
Industry 4.0, the connected, AI-enabled, data-driven factory of the future, has been a conference keynote staple and technology vendor marketing theme for long enough that…
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