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A recent post on the NIST Manufacturing Innovation blog provides a great summary of the promise of collaborative robots for small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs). “Collaborative robots are increasingly attractive to manufacturers who require flexible...

New Scale Robotics CEO David Henderson spoke with Jim Beretta, host of the new Robot Nation podcast, about the development of the Q-Span System and how it is changing the game for QC measurement inspection in small-batch, high-mix manufacturing. The new Robot Nation...

Collaborative robots help with social distancing in the QC/QA lab. Quality teams at high-mix manufacturing facilities are getting back to full production after shut-downs and slow-downs caused by the response to Covid-19 in the USA. They are finding that...

A Q-Span Workstation uses cobot grippers to automatically pick parts from “parts-in” trays and place them into appropriate “parts-out” trays after measuring them. Designing parts-in and parts-out trays for each part is not difficult, but there are five key points to keep in mind.

Here's a good opinion piece from AMT, the Association for Manufacturing Technology. As many previous recessions, depressions, and crashes have proven, U.S. business will be back. While preparing for the economic downturn, keep in mind that growing from the...

Although we carefully monitor costs in manufacturing, many costs are not top of mind because they’re out of sight. Like an iceberg, most of the cost mass remains hidden underwater. Here’s one way you can address those massive costs for small-part manufacturing.

Collaborative robots move beyond the low-hanging fruit of machine tending and material handling If you are part of the robotics industry, you are keenly aware of the growing phenomenon of collaborative robotics. In an industry that has in the past evolved...

Automation helps companies address the labor shortage in manufacturing, including quality assurance As robot installations become more common on the production floor, more plant workers worry about their job security. However, with the proper training and...

Small and midsize businesses stand to benefit even more from robotics than bigger companies, and there are numerous government initiatives designed to help them with adoption Robotics Business Review has published a free primer on how small and midsize...