The warehouse automation market is growing at a rapid pace. However, automation comes with challenges that warehouse managers must overcome in order to fully benefit.
Digital twins are breathing life and innovation into increasingly more areas of manufacturing as well as solving challenges for machine shops of all sizes. With the skilled labor shortage and an ongoing effort to reshore high-tech manufacturing to the U.S., digital twins have a lot to offer.
The America Makes affiliate at Ohio State University develops additive technology and talent.
How shops can reap all the benefits of their multi-tasking machines.
The SafeMate research project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the “Innovations for the Production, Service and Work of Tomorrow” program, strategies and concepts were developed for the introduction and design of collaborative assembly workplaces.
Interoperability will make the autonomous mobile robot’s world go ‘round
AI software enables the company to capture relevant runtime metadata and put it into context to create useful information in real time.
Worker training will be key to implementing Industry 4.0 in manufacturing, speakers at a presentation said today.
Key steps are virtual twins and real relationships.
Metal diffusion bonding is an essential joining method for achieving a high-purity interface when two similar metals require superior structural integrity. The process involves applying high temperature, and pressure to metals mated together in a hot press causes the atoms on solid metallic surfaces to intersperse and bond.