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Cobots help machine shops improve quality, productivity, and employee retention
What an amazing year 2022 turned out to be! We made the most of our ability to travel and meet manufacturing teams around the country. Whether touring their machine shops to help them identify automation opportunities, demonstrating our automated gauging systems at...
Machine Tending with In-Line QC Leads to Lights-Out Manufacturing
In a recent NTMA survey, of those responding 65% said they had not purchased any automation equipment in the first six months of this year and 58% say they do not plan to purchase any over the next six months. While those numbers surprise me somewhat, they could mean...
Robotic gripper/caliper is a Modern Machine Shop favorite at IMTS 2022
"Gage with each grab. New Scale Robotics integrates calipers into robot grippers, making measurement a seamless element of part handling." – Modern Machine Shop At New Scale Robotics, we love meeting with manufacturers who have adopted collaborative robots in...
Robotic dimensional gauging eliminates handheld measurement variations
Different instruments (and different operators) are prone to different errors. Automation eliminates many of these errors. In a Modern Machine Shop article, "Understanding Errors in Hand-Held Measuring Instruments," Metrologist Richard Clark presents some of the...
Hands-on cobot training, learning sessions, and demos at IMTS
Visitors to the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2022) Sept. 12-17 in Chicago will have ample opportunity to learn about collaborative robots and automated gauging. Here are three highlights not to be missed from New Scale Robotics and Universal...
Cobots Help Short-Handed Machine Shops
Nearly every visitor we spoke to at recent Demo Day events shared a common complaint: They are short-handed and need immediate help. Deploying collaborative robots for machine tending and inspection can give them immediate relief, letting their machinists concentrate...
Collaborative Robots Creating Demand for “Integration Light”
The continued rise of collaborative robots (cobots) was apparent at the Automate Show in June. “Integration light,” a new term for deploying cobots, emphasizes the difference between deploying cobots and traditional industrial robots for factory automation....
A Light Bulb Moment for Lights-Out Manufacturing
How many robots does it take to screw in a light bulb? Well, none, because that's not really how we use our robots…but we did spark some light bulb moments at Automate 2022. At Automate 2022, we talked to a lot of people who are chasing “lights-out” manufacturing. We...
Robots Need Dexterity to Work With Bore Gauges
Collaborative robots with sufficient resolution and repeatability can automate measurements using standard manual bore gauges. They improve throughput, and deliver additional benefits beyond measuring inner diameters. Here’s how.
Automated Metrology 101: Adding Robotics & Quality to Manufacturing Education
New Scale Robotics teamed up with the NCATC (National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers) to talk about how collaborative robots are used in manufacturing to automate quality control processes, and how NCATC and New Scale see their role in advanced technology workforce development.