Thursday, January 22, 2026

Maintenance free UR cobots operate continuously in harsh environment

“It simply looked too clean.” That was Juan Puente’s first thought as he researched the robot arms from Universal Robots. Puente is the thermal spray supervisor at Aircraft Tooling Inc. (ATI) in Dallas, Texas. The company was looking into...

Österreichische Post AG relies on new BEUMER Group high-capacity sorter: Prepared for peak times

Parcel shipping is growing worldwide, and Austria is no exception of course. One of the reasons for this growth is the enormous increase in online orders. Customers want their orders to arrive ideally on the same day, delivered right...

Utilizing 3D Printing for Custom Jigs and Fixtures – a White Paper from Formlabs

For manufacturers, maximizing production speed while maintaining high part quality is critical for success. Jigs and fixtures are used to make manufacturing and assembly processes simpler and more reliable, reducing cycle times and improving worker safety. In this white...

Blue Whale Micro Bar Screen Takes WWTPs From Rags-To-Riches

Removing wipes, rags, plastics, hair and other stringy material at the headworks of a WWTP is very important. A traditional ¼” (6.0mm) screen will remove some of this material but as any operator knows a lot will still pass...

Yellow Jacket Case Study – Orbital Stretch Wrap System

A leading manufacturer of A.S.M.E & standard tank heads, hot-formed tank heads, cones, manways and rolled shells, needed a way to wrap heavy, odd-shaped loads while the pallet remains on the forklift. Varying in size and material, tank heads...

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Iowa farm supply dealership relies on Schweiss hydraulic door   

In the late 1950s, Harvey Asmus introduced a new way to farm. Chemical weed control was not a foreign concept, but it certainly wasn’t adopted by the masses who still believed in cultivating the way it was done for...

SCHOTT deploys the RG2-FT gripper to handle extremely sensitive glass

SCHOTT unique material handling inspection with the OnRobot RG2-FT Gripper. Even back then, Otto Schott was considered a pioneer in the science of glass, and SCHOTT AG, the company he founded, continues to break new technological ground today. In the...

Taking Batteries out of the Cost Equation for WirelessHART Networks

Developed as an open-standard wireless networking technology, WirelessHART process field devices are most often powered by batteries.   However, with hundreds – even thousands – of these devices at a single plant site, the cost and resources to replace batteries...

No Time to Lose When a Power Transformer Fails

Silence… The sound no manufacturing general manager wants to hear. When a power transformer that supplies a plant goes bust, everything comes to a grinding halt. At such times the only thing audible is the sound of net profit...

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