Robotic machine tending systems have been on the market for a number of years and they’ve faithfully helped many firms increase their throughput without burning through valuable operators in the process.
Though some shops are coming to grips with the notion that most of these machine tending systems are great at loading and unloading machines, but that’s all they do.
Sometimes jobs require off-machine work in between machine operations or the need to reposition parts in the same machine to complete the work. [Read more…] about MWES looks to the next generation in machine tending