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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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...