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Rockwell Automation has launched a new line of open architecture industrial computers and thin clients.
Thin clients are lightweight computers used to connect to a server from a remote location.
Rockwell says its new VersaView 5000 portfolio provides a “modern visualization solution for smart manufacturing”. [Read more…] about Rockwell Automation launches new range of industrial computers and thin clients
Denso, one of the world’s largest automotive technology suppliers, is expanding its US footprint with a $1 billion investment in its Maryville, Tennessee location.
Denso says the investment is part of its commitment to advancing automotive innovation in North America, and will significantly increase the role North America plays in the global trend toward vehicle safety and electrification.
Denso will create more than 1,000 jobs in Maryville, Tennessee to make it a primary manufacturing center in North America for electrification and safety systems. [Read more…] about Denso to invest $1 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing in the US
The new Model 3 saloon car from Tesla is way too popular for its own good and the company is struggling to cope with the number of orders it’s being asked to deliver.
Despite the “bottlenecks” in manufacturing, the electric carmaker says it is on course to sell 100,000 vehicles this year for the first time in its 14-year history.
And if things go to CEO Elon Musk’s forecasts, Tesla will be manufacturing 500,000 vehicles a year by the end of next year, according to Business Insider. [Read more…] about Tesla finding manufacturing tough as it struggles with too many orders
Telit, a provider of internet of things technologies, is supplying appliance maker Husqvarna with a wireless sensor device for its city robotic mower pilot program.
The sensor was co-developed by Telit and Wireless System Integration, a Sweden-based design house developing wireless products and systems.
The sensor will be used by Husqvarna mowers to collect data about the environment, the quality of air, water, and levels of light and sound, while maintaining the cities’ green spaces. [Read more…] about Telit and Husqvarna collaborate on robots for urban park sustainability program
The Robotics Industries Association is partnering with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to create a new standards body for robotics and other relevant industries.
RIA is the main industrial robotics association in the US and was established in 1974.
OSHA and NIOSH are both government agencies – OSHA is under the Department of Labour, and NIOSH is under the Department of Health and Human Services. [Read more…] about RIA partners with OSHA and NIOSH to create unpronounceable robot group
There was a time when Japanese electronics companies were the Apples and Googles of the world, with everyone buying their products and talking about them in the media.
Many of those same formerly pre-eminent names today play second fiddle to the Silicon Valley tech giants.
But while they may not be discussed as much as they were in the past – and their products not as ubiquitous in the consumer market – Japanese companies still loom large in the industrial sector. [Read more…] about Japanese companies prepare to bring forward new generation of humanoid collaborative robots capable of a variety of industrial work
Kinova Robotics is set to offer consumers a new product line with the beta launch of Movo, a mobile manipulation platform designed to aid in the research and experimentation of mobile robotics.
Movo has been fully designed and developed using the Robot Operating System, along with MoveIt! and Gazebo, and offers an application programming interface that will provide researchers the most advanced functionality in all areas of robotics.
The new, feature-rich platform benefits from the low weight, low energy demand and compactness of Kinova’s world-renowned manipulators, combined with a powerful omnidirectional mobile system and fully integrated navigational system. [Read more…] about Kinova Robotics launches beta version of Movo mobile robot
Elmo, a supplier of motion control technology, has expanded its Gold Twitter of servo drives.
The company says it aims to empower motion applications with high intelligence servo drives and multi-axis motion controllers.
Elmo says its motion control solutions “effectively answer the needs for smart manufacturing”. [Read more…] about Elmo launches new Gold Twitter 80 A servo drive
Growing demand for locally-farmed eggs prompted Seng Choon Farm, to turn to automation in an effort to increase its production capacity
In April this year, ABB installed and commissioned a robotic palletizing system at Seng Choon Farm’s 36 acre site in north-west Singapore, to support increased production output as well as the company’s future expansion plans.
Since then, the robotic palletizing system, that stacks heavy boxes and baskets of eggs onto pallets, has raised the farm’s productivity by 30 per cent.
Before the robotic system was installed, workers would manually stack the cartons and baskets of eggs onto the pallets, with a single worker lifting about 15 tons of eggs a day. [Read more…] about ABB robot hatches 30 per cent more eggs for Singapore egg farm
General Electric claims it was the first company to have launched an industrial internet of things platform when it released Predix last year.
The company’s software business unit, GE Digital, has been generating revenues of more than $4 billion a year, and looks like it’s strongly influencing the future direction of the overall business.
Another of the big ideas at GE is the “Brilliant Factory” concept, which is essentially the digitalisation of anything and everything that can be digitised in a manufacturing or industrial process. [Read more…] about General Electric deepening its interest in the software business
