By Noah Bougie, lead instrumentation and controls engineer, ACS, and Scott Blais, Jr., sales and business development manager, mk North America
Generic, off-the-shelf product-moving systems are often the hidden bottlenecks that limit advanced robotic automation system cycle times.
While industry media often focuses on the brains of automation, such as vision systems and artificial intelligence (AI), a multi-axis robot is ultimately only as fast as the product movement feeding it. [Read more…] about Optimizing product movement: Technical strategies for high-performance automation