Automation

Production flexibility abounds with new multitasking series

The Integrex i-H series of multi-tasking machines from Mazak was designed to allow for additional automation technologies to be added onto the machine after purchase as a company's production needs grow and change.

Programming autonomous bin picking demo

Universal Robots USA Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has introduced a pick-and-place kit to automate machine loading without the major integration and programming efforts usually required to install and set up an automated bin-picking system.

PI hosts automation, laser processing virtual tradeshow

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a provider of motion control and laser processing solutions, launched a virtual tradeshow on its website. The tradeshow features industrial automation and laser material processing products.

Out with the old machine, in with the more efficient

09/22/2020

When two universal turning centers hit their replacement age, this machine shop took it to the next level with twin spindles and triple turrets.

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V-817 linear stages

Linear Motor Stages for High Load / Precision Industrial Applications and EtherCat Motion Controllers

The V-817 linear stages, engineered for highly dynamic and precise motion, boast a load capacity of 600N, travel ranges from 8” (204mm) to 32” (813mm), and velocities to 3000mm/sec. Driven by 3-phase linear motors and guided by robust recirculating ball bearing guides, the low-profile design of only 63mm minimizes moving mass and tilting errors. An integrated linear encoder provides <1nm resolution and when operated with PI’s industrial motion controllers, the stages achieve 10nm minimum incremental motion, 1µm bidirectional repeatability, and 2.5µm accuracy.

Clamping Module Option for FlexMove Conveyors

FlexMove Clamping Module Holds Back or Paces Products for Accumulating Applications

The Clamping Module is ideal for totes, boxes, bottles and square, round and rectangular containers. As products pass through the Clamping Module, pre-programmed photo sensors trigger a pneumatic-clamping actuator that is mounted on both sides of the conveyor. The Clamping Module produces a gap of about one product length; product must be able to withstand some back pressure and squeezing force.

JETCAM Orders Controller (JOC) 3.57

JETCAM Orders Controller 3.57 Brings Further Automation to Nesting and NC Code Generation

JOC (PA) now fully automates CAD import, whereby a folder can be monitored for a CSV file containing details of DXF files to process, material, thickness, quantity required and machine to nest for. An existing system such as CAD, MES or MRP could generate a CSV file that would be immediately imported, tooled for multiple machines, nested, with NC code being available within minutes and all completely without any user intervention.

Visit Universal Robots USA Inc.'s digital Cobot Expo

If you didn't visit it live, then through Aug. 28, you still can attend The Cobot Expo, a North American digital trade show by Universal Robots USA Inc.

Robotic CNC Machine Tending

Cutting Tool Engineering debuts a new video series, Cobotics Corner. Watch a brief demonstration of a robotic CNC machine tending operation on a Haas VF2SS with a Universal Robots UR5e and a Robotiq Dual Hand-E.

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F-122 Compact 5-Axis Motorized Fiber Positioning System

The F-122 motorized 5DOF positioning stage is a compact solution for aligning (silicon) photonics and optics components, such as fibers, waveguides, lenses. As the leading innovator of high precision motion control solutions for 50 years, PI offers a host of 3-axis XYZ to 6-axis precision motion systems for automation and research.