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Universal Robots' Cobot Features Motion Control

The UR30 cobot provides the ideal placement of large payloads, enabling it to work at higher speeds and lift heavier loads.

Q&A: How a Self-Taught Machinist Started His Own Business

This machinist found an opportunity in a niche market and decided to learn machining and create his own business. Here's how he did it.

Flexxbotics Becomes System Integrator for Universal Robots

Flexxbotics’ solutions are designed to seamlessly connect and coordinate UR cobots with existing automation equipment, IT systems and people for robot-driven manufacturing to achieve autonomous process control.

Finding Skilled Labor Through Partnerships and Benefits

To combat the skilled labor shortage, this Top Shops honoree turned to partnerships and unique benefits to attract talented workers.

CNC Machine Shop Honored for Automation, Machine Monitoring

From cobots to machine monitoring, this Top Shop honoree shows that machining technology is about more than the machine tool.

Lessons on the Journey Toward Shop Automation

By necessity, small and mid-sized American job shops are automating production, whether through swift, dramatic upgrades in capital equipment, or slow, methodical changes to processes and procedures on the shop floor.

4 Steps to a Cobot Culture: How Thyssenkrupp Bilstein Has Answered Staffing Shortages With Economical Automation

Safe, economical automation using collaborative robots can transform a manufacturing facility and overcome staffing shortfalls, but it takes additional investment and a systemized approach to automation in order to realize this change.

Better Together: Combining Cobots and Palletization

Using a collaborative robot to tend a machine with a pallet changer can help shops maximize unattended machining time.

Cobot Monitoring for Universal Robots Equipment

Precision manufacturers can now monitor collaborative robots from Universal Robots in real-time to drive automation that improves performance and reliability.

Datanomix Partners With Flexxbotics on Robot Monitoring

Using Flexxbotics’ technology, the Datanomix platform receives performance information and visualizes it alongside the performance data from the CNC machines the robots empower.

IMTS 2022 Review: Attention to Automation Extends Beyond the Robot and the Machine

The advance toward increasingly automated machining can be seen in the ways tooling, workholding, gaging and integration all support unattended production. This is the area of innovation I found most compelling at the recent International Manufacturing Technology Show.

Compact Industrial Cobot Features Enhanced Motion Control

IMTS22: Universal Robots’ UR20 cobot is a completely re-engineered cobot that can handle faster cycle times and heavier loads.

Compact Industrial Cobot Features Enhanced Motion Control

IMTS22: Universal Robots’ new UR20 cobot is a completely re-engineered cobot that can handle faster cylce times and heavier loads.

VersaBuilt Lathe Automation System for High-Mix Production

The system includes the VersaBuilt System Controller (VSC) software which has all robot motion preprogrammed, thereby enabling deployment in hours rather than weeks.

ActiNav System Automates Flexible Machine Loading

Universal Robots’ ActiNav software provides a simple, easy-to-deploy solution for bin picking automation in applications with only a single part type to pick.

When Machining Lights Out Leaves Nothing Out

A Top Shops honors program winner strives to ensure every part crosses paths with a robot, cobot or pallet changer.

Universal Robots Works with Software Company on OPC UA Standardization

Rocketfarm’s URCap software translates information from the UR robot to OPC UA-compatible information.

Video: Hurco Machining Center Adapted Into N95 Mask Production System

CNC machines can do more than we think. They are automation platforms for insourcing.

Autonomous Bin Picking for CNC Machining Applications

With the launch of a new application kit for collaborative robots, Universal Robots is creating a new option for lights-out machining. But the company may have tapped into a solution for a deeper problem: attracting millennials to the manufacturing workforce.

Robots Get Hand-Eye Coordination

Artificial vision, touch and intelligence help collaborative robots cope with the unpredictable.

Fill the Night Shift with a Machine-Tending Cobot

When a large order necessitated adding a third shift, Toolcraft was having trouble hiring anyone to cover it. By investing in a UR5e collaborative robot from Universal Robots, the shop quickly achieved 24/7 production as well as time savings and increased throughput.

Shop Doubles Production Capacity with Robotic Machine Tending

In an unusual case of workers pleading for the adoption of machine-tending robots, Fusion OEM has realized great increases in capacity while freeing up machinists to more complex tasks.

News of Note: August 2019

A market development agreement on a new finishing process, a conference on quick-response manufacturing, new robotics training centers in the United States, and other industry news.

What is the Role of Collaborative Automation in Production?

Thyssenkrupp Bilstein’s North American operations is finding out. The shock absorber manufacturer has eight cobots and counting in its Ohio production facility, plus two autonomous vehicles. Here are scenes from its shop where the picture of automation is changing.

If at First Your CNC Machine Shop Doesn’t Succeed with Robots, Automate Again

Alexandria Industries struggled with its first robotic machining cell. However, the aluminum extrusion components manufacturer — now with more than 20 robots — discovered that by simplifying and standardizing its automation strategy, it could reap the benefits of unattended machining even for relatively low batch sizes.

News of Note: December 2018

ORNL appoints new leadership, Ingersoll remains with current owners, DMG MORI expands and other industry news.

10 Ways to Think Differently about Robotic Automation

Take another look: A lot is happening in and around robotic automation. What robots might mean for machining and manufacturing is getting ready to change.

Universal Robots Raises the Bar with e-Series Cobots – Meet UR10e

With the ability to automate tasks up to 22 lbs with no compromise on precision, the UR10e is Universal Robots’ most powerful cobot.

Universal Robots Raises the Bar with e-Series Cobots – Meet UR5e

With the new e-Series platform the market leader of collaborative robots sets a new standard for cobots, adding built-in force/torque sensing, unrivaled safety features, and improved precision for faster integration in a wider range of future-proofed applications.