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    Siemens Digital Industries
    Siemens Digital Industries business illustration.
    Wintriss Controls Group
    Wintriss Controls Group Tracker device.
    ABB Robotics
    ABB AppStudio software tool.
    Sarayut Thaneerat
    Machine programmer encounters Machine Learning.
    Universal Robots
    “This update enables customers to increase productivity without increasing costs, and it’s just one example of how our passion for innovation drives benefit to our customers’ bottom line.”
    Renishaw
    The Renishaw Central platform allows manufacturers to harness end-to-end process data and use it to develop a robust factory-wide system architecture.

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    Siemens
    Sinumerik Machine Tool Robot
    New Products

    Intelligent Control for Robotic Precision, Productivity

    March 12, 2025
    The new Sinumerik application gives industrial robots the characteristics of machine tools, achieving up to 300 percent greater path accuracy for manufacturing processes, increasing...
    HEIDENHAIN
    The TNC7 Basic, designed for 3+2-axis machines, provides powerful features like MAS graphical 6D setup support, DCM collision monitoring, and OCM trochoidal milling.
    Automation and Robotics

    Control Technologies for Digital Manufacturing

    Sept. 5, 2024
    A range of control technologies for digital manufacturing, including new platform hardware, software for monitoring shop floors digitally, along with an all-in-one vision system...
    ATI Industrial Automation
    The GBX 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module provides safe and reliable data transmission for advanced automation and more efficient robotic tool changer performance.
    Automation and Robotics

    Advanced Robotic Tool Changing

    Sept. 4, 2024
    Adding an Ethernet module provides safe and reliable data transmission for advanced automation, optimizing tool changer performance and flexibility with timely, accurate communication...
    Mazak Corp.
    Mazak’s SmartBox 2.0 is a comprehensive device that integrates advanced communication protocols and edge computing to enhance productivity and security, ensuring safe data export from machines to factory networks.
    Automation and Robotics

    Enhanced Machine-to-Network Connectivity

    Sept. 4, 2024
    Mazak’s SmartBox 2.0 device integrates advanced communication protocols and edge computing for enhanced productivity and security.
    Ryzhov Sergey
    A CNC machine operator.
    Shop Operations

    Overcoming the Machinist Shortage

    Aug. 27, 2024
    From automation to training, these five options offer machine shops and all manufacturers a starting point for resolving the expanding personnel and production problem.

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    GF Machining Solutions
    Automation and Robotics

    Enhancing Productivity in Tooling, Automation, Software

    June 6, 2024
    “Smart productivity solutions” include minimized set-up times that maximize spindle uptime, so shops increase profitability working smarter.
    OnRobot
    New Products

    New Electrical Grippers for High Payloads

    May 8, 2024
    As collaborative robotics become more industrial in nature, two grippers and a new machine-tending applications provide stronger end-effector performance and improve workpiece...
    BiancoBlue | Dreamstime
    Enterprise Data

    Stand Out in the AI-Dominated Crowd

    March 13, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence is just one technology for manufacturers striving to increase their competitive differentiation, and seeking opportunities to create new efficiencies and...
    Assn. for Advancing Automation
    News

    2023 Robot Demand -30%

    Feb. 13, 2024
    Q4 signaled some recovery, but a slow economy, higher interest rates, and over-purchasing during the 2022 supply-chain crisis dragged the volume of new orders after two straight...