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Universal Robots (UR) Debuts the World’s First Cobot Spot Welder and New Cobot-Powered Palletizing and Machine Tending Cells at Automate 2023

Universal Robots is not only one of the most widely used collaborative robot arm in the manufacturing industry, the UR cobots have also become the platform of choice for a fast-growing ecosystem of innovative OEM solutions. Nowhere is that more apparent than this year’s Automate, where 60+ UR cobots will be exhibited in more than 30 booths at the show, taking place in Detroit, MI, May 22-25, 2023. UR’s Automate booth #3623 showcases the latest innovation in a rapidly expanding application field, including the world’s first cobot spot welder, designed and manufactured by Pro Spot International.

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What Does the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) Tell You About System Component Reliability? An Analysis From PULS

The term MTBF appears in the data sheets of various technical system components and often causes confusion. This is mainly due to the different calculation methods and the risk of confusion with the service lifetime of a device. At PULS, many R&D specialists deal with both parameters on a daily basis. With this knowledge, PULS brings a little light into the darkness in this blog article.

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Ideal Supply Tradeshow Successful in its Return to an In-Person Event

Ideal Supply returned to an in-person event for their annual trade show held this past week in Stratford, ON. The Welcome Back Tradeshow also featured a weeklong virtual portion to accommodate those that were unable to make the trip the Stratford Rotary Complex where the event was held. The show is unique because many shows of this size are held in the GTA, giving the industry in the southern region a unique opportunity to get a firsthand look at the latest products, tools, and solutions from many of the industry’s leading manufacturers.

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Nexii Building Solutions – Reinventing the Way the World Builds

Nexii Building Solutions is a green construction company that is reinventing the way the world builds. It designs and manufactures high-performance green buildings and building products that are sustainable, cost-effective, and climate resilient. In this article, we sit down with Zosia Brown, VP of Sustainability, Nexii Building Solutions, to discuss the company’s innovative technologies and how it is breaking new ground and going beyond expectations.

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Endress+Hauser’s Annual Media Conference 2023: Change is the Only Constant

Endress+Hauser recently concluded their Annual Media Conference in Basel, Switzerland on April 4th, 2023. Like past media conferences, they reviewed the previous financial year and provided an outlook for the current financial year. But this conference was special: It was the last press conference Klaus Endress would take part in as President of the Supervisory Board. At the end of 2023, Endress will end his active role, and Matthias Altendorf will assume his position on the Board.

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Central Motion Control Facilitates Modularity and Reduces Overall Effort

For more than 50 years, Bausch+Ströbel SE + Co. KG, headquartered in Ilshofen, Germany, has been developing packaging and production systems for the pharmaceutical and related industries. The company’s goal is to offer the best technical and economical solutions for the challenges of the modern market. The new ESA1025 labeling machine for various pharmaceutical containers shows exactly how this is implemented with PC-based control from Beckhoff as the central motion controller.

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Five Ways That Automation Improves Quality in Blow Molding

Blow molding is an essential process within the packaging industry that is used to create hollow plastic parts like plastic bottles. After raw plastic is heated, it gets turned into a parison, which is a tube-like plastic shape that can be filled with compressed air through a hole at one end. This air is used to inflate the plastic inside a mold to the desired shape.

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“Verifying De-energization – Time to Get Serious” Webinar Presented by I-Gard Corporation Outlining Absence of Voltage Testing

Webinar Overview: Keeping employees safe at work has to be responsibility number one for any company and yet electrical incidents continue to occur yearly despite awareness campaigns and best efforts. A number of these incidents occur due to unintended contact with energized conductors and one root cause could be the standard Test Before Touch approach…

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Traceability 4.0. How Omron Can Help You Get More Out of Your Digital Transformation

What Is Traceability and Why It Is Important? Traceability is important for many reasons. Without it, it would be virtually impossible to mitigate quality issues in the field. Many industries require tracking and trace for components and assemblies such as automotive, life sciences, food and beverage. These industries require that manufacturers record and store data…

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MCEE Expo: A Great Success After 4 Years Away!

April 25, 2023 Elle Bremmer On Wednesday April 19 and Thrusday April 20, MCEE Expo opened its doors at the Palais des congrès in Montréal to more than 6000 students, contractors, business owners, and many others in the electrical and lighting industries. Due to the pandemic, it had been four years since the last MCEE…

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Getting Serious About Workplace Electrical Safety – Electric Shock Edition from iGard

April 24, 2023 Keeping employees safe at work has to be responsibility number one for a company. What is the rationale for being profitable if unsafe, or delivering product quickly to the customer if the workplace is unsafe and so everyone agrees that workplace safety is a priority but then we need to ask why…

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Barrett Family Foundation Gift Benefits Students, Humber, and Industry

January 24, 2023 was an historic day for Humber College. The college received the largest, private donation presented to an Ontario college in Canadian history. A $30 million dollar gift from the Barrett Family Foundation will be used to support the College and its students and is an investment in the future of manufacturing. This most recent donation, combined with previous gifts to the College, total $42 million, cementing The Barrett Family’s generous investments as the largest in Canadian college history.

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Guillevin Datacom : A Global Expertise With a Local Approach, for the Distribution of Data Communication Infrastructure Products

Today’s omnipresent network communication cabling is essential for connecting communication systems, making it important to have an edge in infrastructure for increased reliability and performance. An optimized network cabling infrastructure offers many benefits, including a more robust, secure network, cost savings, superior energy efficiency and optimal data transfer performance. Founded in 1906, Guillevin International, the reference in the distribution of equipment to electrical contractors, has developed its expertise in order to meet the growing demand and changing trends in the latest generation of copper and fiber optic network cabling products.

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Logical Systems Inc. and Klippon Engineering Deliver a MiBridge Migration Solution

Logical Systems Inc. and Klippon Engineering tackle facility shutdowns. The company is one of North America’s largest beverage companies and has operated for over two centuries. With facilities running round the clock, any shutdown means a loss of production and revenue in millions of dollars. These facilities are automated but built on old legacy systems which are almost 30 years old. With recent technological development, the company wants to upgrade from the old MODICON control system to a new Rockwell Automation1756 ControlLogix control system; however, this means shutting down operations.

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Now is a Great Time to Automate Your Finishing Process

Quick. Quality. Inexpensive. You can have two, but you can’t have all three. We’ve all heard the phrase, but what does it mean when talking about automation – and more specifically about automation in the finishing industry? It means that the quality and success of a paint automation project is going to depend on what company you select as your automation partner, their ability to audit your process and make recommendations that will suit your business needs. Easy or quick does not necessarily mean quality and quality does not necessarily mean it was quick and easy.

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Beyond Products and Solutions: How the Transformation of Industry Can Be Successful

Industry is under tremendous pressure to change. How is the manufacturing industry progressing toward smart production? How can we move from crisis management to long-term transformation in energy, efficiency and sustainability? How can we speed up the much-needed scaling up of infrastructure? How are companies countering the shortage of skilled workers? Rittal, Eplan, Cideon and German Edge Cloud will discuss these questions with visitors to the Hannover Messe, showing how expertise can be used to create comprehensive solutions in the relevant ecosystems.

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Universal Robots (UR) Debuts the World’s First Cobot Spot Welder and New Cobot-Powered Palletizing and Machine Tending Cells at Automate 2023

What Does the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) Tell You About System Component Reliability? An Analysis From PULS

Ideal Supply Tradeshow Successful in its Return to an In-Person Event

Nexii Building Solutions – Reinventing the Way the World Builds

Endress+Hauser’s Annual Media Conference 2023: Change is the Only Constant

Central Motion Control Facilitates Modularity and Reduces Overall Effort

Five Ways That Automation Improves Quality in Blow Molding

“Verifying De-energization – Time to Get Serious” Webinar Presented by I-Gard Corporation Outlining Absence of Voltage Testing

Traceability 4.0. How Omron Can Help You Get More Out of Your Digital Transformation

MCEE Expo: A Great Success After 4 Years Away!

Getting Serious About Workplace Electrical Safety – Electric Shock Edition from iGard

Barrett Family Foundation Gift Benefits Students, Humber, and Industry

Guillevin Datacom : A Global Expertise With a Local Approach, for the Distribution of Data Communication Infrastructure Products

Logical Systems Inc. and Klippon Engineering Deliver a MiBridge Migration Solution

Now is a Great Time to Automate Your Finishing Process

Beyond Products and Solutions: How the Transformation of Industry Can Be Successful

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