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Video: Four Gauges on One Robot for Automated Gauging
Q-Span Gauging Systems automate dimensional gauging for higher throughput on time-consuming inspection processes, improving process control and minimizing QC costs. They incorporate a collaborative robot, New Scale's smart gripper/calipers, and any number of standard...
Machine Shop Robots Get Real
What do investors think about the use of collaborative robots in factory automation? Focus Investment Banking asserts that machine shops demonstrating smart use of automation attract more attention and higher valuations. From the article: Robotic automation is no...
AMT: Metrology is Automation’s “Unsung Hero”
The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Principal Economist Christopher Chidzik recently called metrology "automation's unsung hero." We couldn't agree more! Chidzik writes: As manufacturers lean more and more into automation, the only way to measure the...
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....