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Baldor Electric Company recently named Matt Price its new food and beverage industry business manager. In this role, Price and his team are responsible for gaining specification and preference at key food and beverage accounts for Baldor Reliance motors, Baldor Dodge mechanical power transmission products and ABB robots and drives. The team will also drive the development of industry strategies,…
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Delivering Complete Automation Solutions We now offer SCARA, Parallel, Articulated, and Mobile robot solutions. These best-in-class industrial robots have been integrated with Omron’s family of sensors, safety components and award-winning NX/NJ series machine automation controllers to simplify the implementation of robots in a production environment. So, what does this mean for our customers? The wide and deep range of our…
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Following rapid market expansion in the U.S. after its 2012 entry into the North American market, collaborative robot manufacturer Universal Robots has announced Douglas Peterson as general manager. In his new position, Peterson will oversee operations in North and South America. After a doubling of year to year revenue, the Danish robot manufacturer is expanding its local presence, adding to…
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DHL has launched two innovation challenges and invites inventors and visionaries across the globe to participate. Participants are asked to generate new ideas in the areas of sustainable logistics or robotics. Universities, students, companies and any other person who is at least 18 years of age may join the competition and are asked to submit a written document and video…
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North American sales of machine vision components and systems fell 11% year over year to $546 million in the first quarter of 2016, according to new statistics issued by AIA, the industry’s trade group. Total machine vision sales include sales of machine vision components and systems. The machine vision components category decreased 7% to $79 million in the first quarter…
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The system integration landscape has completely transformed in the last decade, and the pace of innovation will only increase. Heightened demands from consumers and business partners alike have driven rapid adoption of automation and software in the materials handling and logistics space as companies strive to overcome the limitations of legacy systems and methods. The complexity of the modern fulfillment…
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The SSI Schaefer Group has announced a majority holding in the Kamen-based, German gantry robot specialist RO-BER Industrieroboter GmbH. Elmar Issing, vice president of robotics and innovations at SSI Schaefer, said, “high-performance robotic applications are now a key factor in integrated automation solutions in intralogistics. Our involvement with RO-BER increases the range of solutions for our customers in another key…
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Yaskawa America has announced the promotion of Mike Knapek, president and COO of the drives and motion division, to the position of CEO. Knapek takes over for Masahiro Ogawa, who has led Yaskawa’s drives, motion, and robotics business in the Americas for the past five and a half years. Ogawa will return to Kurosaki, Japan, to take on the role…
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IHS Technology says while the global market for industrial PCs has experienced ups and downs in recent years, it is forecast to pick up in 2016 and will start to stabilize in 2018. The key reason for the increase in short-term growth is an expected improvement in the outlook for process industry investment and the continued use of industrial PCs…
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They say necessity is the mother of invention. Both necessity and invention are currently on display at Quiet Logistics, a third-party provider of e-fulfillment services for familiar names in the premium branded fashion and apparel industry like Bonobos, Zara and Mack Weldon. Start with a walk through of a 300,000-square-foot distribution center near the Fort Devens Army Base in Devens,…
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Quiet Logistics; Devens, Mass. Size: 500,000 square feet in 2 DCs Products: Premium branded fashion and apparel Throughput: 55,000 units per day SKUs: 150,000 Employees: 350 Shifts per day/days per week: The facilities operate 24 hours a day, 6 days per week, using 3 staggered shifts per day In one of its two distribution centers in Devens, Mass., Quiet Logistics…
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This month in Modern we offer the third in a series of three System Reports that examine the emergence of robotics in warehousing and distribution. Back in March, we featured a robotic layer-picking solution that L’Oreal is using to build mixed SKU pallets at its facility in Kentucky. Last month we went inside the operations of VSP, a high-volume optics…
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A large North American paperboard converting plant wanted to enhance its ability to produce mixed loads to send directly to retail locations. Amid SKU growth and increased demand, the company refurbished, relocated and expanded its existing robotic unitizing system to meet present and future needs. Installed seven years prior, the original five-aisle, robotic unitizing system used five Fanuc robots for…
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Yaskawa and Clearpath have partnered to develop a mobile machine tending and material movement solution ideal for shop floor environments. This fully integrated solution will feature a Motoman MH12 robot equipped with end-of-arm tool and vision system, mounted on Clearpath’s OTTO 1500 self-driving vehicle. This project is currently under development and supported under the advanced research division of Clearpath. “Our…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse robots and software that will be on…
