JLS Automation is helping meat and poultry producers meet the requirements of the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) with a new sanitary open-frame design for its robotic packaging systems.
With recent HMI hardware advances, today’s industrial touchscreens should provide key standard features while offering enough options to support wide-ranging applications.
Due to ongoing advances in HMI technology in terms of hardware and software, the range of options keeps growing — creating new solutions for specific machines or lines that will support safer, more modular designs and intuitive operation.
Linatex, a Danish supplier of technical plastics and rubber for industrial applications, bought a UR5 robot arm from Universal Robots to automate CNC machine tending in December 2008. However, instead of installing the robot behind safety caging, fenced off from people as was the norm, they deployed it right alongside their employees.
Honeywell is collaborating with Fetch Robotics to provide distribution centers with autonomous mobile robots to help them more effectively fulfill growing e-commerce orders.
Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC will operate under the new name EndFlex LLC, a Florida-based manufacturer of secondary and end-of-line automated packaging solutions.
The new addition, scheduled to open mid-2020, will be built alongside the current warehouse in Fort Worth, Texas, and have the capacity to house more than 500,000 stocked products.
The ringing of the closing bell on October 17th at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was performed not by a human, but by a robot arm. The bell ringer, Universal Robots’ UR5e is a collaborative robot.
Brenton introduces the new and innovative RPX Series of configurable robotic palletizing cells, giving food and manufacturing companies the opportunity to quickly, easily and cost effectively advance from manual to automated palletizing.