FUTURA AUTOMATION | THE AUTOMATION & ASSEMBLY ISSUE 

How is automated assembly 
making the US globally competitive?

By utilizing robots for flexibility
and Lean Manufacturing Principles,
that’s how.

This issue of the Futura Automation newsletter, in conjunction with the Assembly Show in Chicago on October 23-25, is dedicated to Automated Assembly. 

Automation assembly machines and robots have the flexibility to be reconfigured and re-purposed. This provides the ability to respond rapidly to design changes and innovation, which provides a competitive advantage over more traditional manufacturing processes. 

#Lean approaches consider the waste created through excess material removal, such as machining away metal (subtractive manufacturing) and labor and energy expended due to uneven work load. 

Streamlining production, better production planning, use of additive manufacturing techniques (#3D_printing) all allow for a #Lean approach.

Industrial #IoT can contribute the data to make waste issues clear and can suggest improvements in production, especially with the development of Artificial Intelligence #AI techniques applied to #BigData. 
 

FUTURA AUTOMATION | GLIDE-LINE

Check out our pallet conveyor partner, Glide-Line, for automated assembly applications.  This is a great way to manage products through various steps of assembly and inspection.

Glide-Line and Futura Automation offer the most versatile multi-strand pallet and panel-handling solution available for the assembly automation industry.  We give you powerful pricing, application and model development software (IMPACT!) that is so unique that Solidworks created a Case Study and published it worldwide! Get IMPACT!

FUTURA AUTOMATION | VISUMATIC

Visumatic offers a wide range of manufacturing automation solutions around fastening technologies, both manual and robot automated, like the Viper Assembly Cell. 

FUTURA AUTOMATION | ROBOT SYSTEM PRODUCTS RSP

This RSP video features an example of the RSP STC 20 with a FANUC LR Mate 200ID equipped with machine vision

FUTURA AUTOMATION | ROBOT SYSTEM PRODUCTS RSP

They are designed as innovative Plug & Play EOAT systems, including Force Feedback and Tactile Touch sensing that help manufacturers take full advantage of the benefits of collaborative robots.  Grippers are being reworked for use on traditional guarded robots.  Get in touch for questions and info on the benefits provided by OnRobot grippers.

One factor that sets Elon Musk businesses apart from others is his commitment to utilize state-of-the-art manufacturing processes with a heavy application of robotics.  He goes where no manufacturer has gone before, and sometimes pays for his boundary busting.  Here is a great example of the modern use of robots to build electric vehicles like the Model S.