Robotics

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Automation advances

2019-08-14T13:41:00Z

AMS investigates how robotics can be adapted to a wider range of applications and the potential offered by 5G communications

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Flexible and mobile

2019-08-06T15:10:00Z

When a Skoda supplier needed to find a more flexible automated aluminium machining process, it turned to Stäubli

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Cue customisation

2019-06-20T15:04:00Z

Flexible solutions by ABB technology are helping to meet the changing needs of the automotive industry

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Keeping in focus

2019-05-20T14:29:00Z

Ford has invested in its Saarlouis plant to produce the latest generation of its popular Focus model. Nick Holt visited the plant to get a look at the upgrades to the production process

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ABB to provide robots for SAIC VW

2019-05-14T16:50:00Z

China - ABB has signed an agreement with SAIC Volkswagen to provide robotics painting solutions for a new factory being built in Shanghai. The plant will become the first new energy vehicle (NEV) factory of the VW Group based on the modular electric drive (MEB) platform. “We are delighted ...

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The imitation game

2019-03-04T16:46:00Z

Working with a local robotics start-up in Germany, Volkswagen is exploring a new programming technique that allows assembly workers to teach a cobot all the right moves Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory in the eastern German city of Dresden is arguably one of the more unusual automotive manufacturing sites in ...

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Augmented assistance

2019-03-04T11:36:00Z

Visit any car manufacturing plant in the world and the vast majority of production equipment will be similar, if not the same – that’s the view of Cem Temel, head of Ford’s Gölcük and Yeniköy plants in Turkey and assistant general manager for new projects at Ford Otosan. “The ...

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Embedded 3D image processing

2019-01-18T15:30:38Z

Vision Components claims its VCnano3D-Z-series, 3D laser scanners are compact and can be easily integrated into OEM applications. The scanners are said to feature a dual-core ARM processor and an FPGA, which calculates a point cloud in order to determine line coordinates in laser triangulation. The company says the laser ...

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Competitive advantage

2018-11-06T10:19:00Z

Automotive supplier BENTELER has introduced ABB inspection automation technology to its production plant in Vigo to improve efficiency and stand tall next to its competitors BENTELER is investing in ABB’s digital 3D vision and metrology solutions at its Vigo production plant in Spain, helping it reduce cycle times ...

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Hyundai/Kia test wearables

2018-10-25T16:57:25Z

South Korea - The companies have recently demonstrated the use of the Hyundai chairless exoskeleton (H-CEX), and now plans on testing the Hyundai vest exoskeleton (H-VEX) technology. These could then be used at plants across North America before the end of 2018. "The field of robotics has the potential to ...