Manufacturing

Food Manufacturers Top Two Improvement Priorities Operational improvements that impact food manufacturers the most continue to focus on automation and robotics. Automation and Robotics are Top Two Operational Improvements for Food Manufacturers According to “2019 Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing,” when looking at developments in operational improvement data over the last two years, automation installations retained the leading position, with more than half of food manufacturers using automation to fill gaps in worker availability. Robotics rose to the second position on the list with 2 in 5 food companies deploying robotics currently, compared to 1 in 5 companies two...

OMRON Opens New AUTOMATION CENTER in Tokyo - Flagship FA Technology Center That Brings About Innovation to Production Floor through Co-creation with Customers KYOTO, Japan, Jan.24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OMRON Corporation, based in Kyoto, Japan, announced the January 22 opening of AUTOMATION CENTER TOKYO (ATC-TOKYO) in Shinagawa, Tokyo, where corporate customers join OMRON to find solutions to their manufacturing issues. The 37th ATC facility in the world, ATC-TOKYO is OMRON's flagship factory automation (FA) technology center, where model production floors are built within the world's largest* ATC facility to allow customers to experience and test state-of-the-art FA that seamlessly integrates AI, IoT, robotics, and other cutting-edge technologies. At...

Quality Inspections Drive Machine Vision and Deep Learning Connection Cognex works with end users in multiple industrial verticals to apply deep learning to its vision systems for final and in-line assembly verification. Cognex Deep Learning quality inspection software can be trained to identify correct placement and types of items assembled or packaged. In this consumer packaged goods example, it's assorted chocolates in a package. Source: Cognex Despite the advance of automation technologies into virtually every realm of manufacturing, quality inspection remains a task commonly reserved for humans. One of the primary reasons for this is that factors such as random...

ThyssenKrupp and Wilhelmsen to develop additive manufacturing solutions for shipbuilding ThyssenKrupp is collaborating with Wilhelmsen, one of the largest maritime products and services provider in the world, to jointly develop additive manufacturing enabled commercial solutions for the maritime industry. Under the Memorandum of Agreement signed by both companies, ThyssenKrupp and Wilhelmsen’s Marine Products division will collaborate on providing 3D-printed components for maritime vessels, leveraging on ThyssenKrupp’s expertise in additive manufacturing alongside Wilhelmsen’s in-depth maritime expertise and direct ongoing experience of developing 3D printing as a service for vessels. The collaboration will also leverage on the capabilities of the recently inaugurated ThyssenKrupp Tech...

CIMC Brings Its Chassis Manufacturing To The U.S. IMAGE COURTESY CIE MANUFACTURING, INC. Entrepreneur Malcolm McLean, frustrated with the snail-like swiftness of cargo handling he witnessed when he first got into trucking in the 1930s, invented the shipping container in 1956. Little did he know back then that he would wind up changing the whole world. Today the biggest maker of chassis (the plural is spelled the same as the singular, but pronounced chass-eez), the trailers that handle the over-the-road portion of container intermodal shipping, is working on more modest but still dramatic changes. CIE Manufacturing, Inc. (formerly CIMC Intermodal Equipment), headquartered...