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Innovator David Henderson featured on “Robot Nation” podcast
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...Get your QC team back to work safely – with robots
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 they can use...Five Things You Should Know About Parts Trays for Pick-Measure-Record-and-Place Automation
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.