13
Aug

Tulip Interfaces WESTEC 2019: Helping Manufacturers Augment Production

Tulip Interfaces, a spinout from the MIT Media Lab, helps manufacturers augment employee production rather than automating it away. The company’s app platform connects people, machines, and sensors to optimize manufacturing.  At WESTEC 2019, Tulip is teaming up with partner Futura Automation in booth #1560 to interactively demo Tulip’s holistic machine monitoring and digital work […]

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31
Jul

AGILE Manufacturing: A Primer

What is Agile Manufacturing and how is it implemented?  No sooner did we learn the buzzword: LEAN Manufacturing, then along comes a new concept: AGILE.  The two terms are not mutually exclusive.  One can embrace LEAN and still learn to be AGILE.  Our partner at Futura Automation, Tulip Interfaces, has done a great job summarizing […]

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15
Jul

Robotics Industry News: Hospitals of the Future

Originally POSTED 07/10/2019 | Robotics.org ABB Inc to install advanced collaborative robotics for medical laboratories and hospitals, starting with new healthcare hub at Texas Medical Center in Houston, US, in October New facility at Texas Medical Center’s innovation campus to focus on non-surgical medical Robotics systems Global market estimated to reach nearly 60,000 non-surgical medical robots [...] Read more
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15
Jul

Robots are revolutionizing medical device manufacturing

Reece Armstrong looks at how medical manufacturing has reacted to Industry 4.0 and where the sector sees robots and automation having the most impact. The factory of the future is a term that has been thrown around for a number of years now but what does it mean? We entered the fourth age of the [...] Read more
11
Jul

Jetsons Redux: How “The Jetsons” Predicted The Future

Followers know that I am fascinated by the visions of TV and movie writers of the 1960s and 70s. These were my formative years and like many in my generation, John F Kennedy and the American space program and race to the moon with the USSR captivated my imagination. I read every science fiction book [...] Read more
05
Jul

The Accumulating Case for Deterministic Control

  • By : Brian McMorris
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By Dave Perkon, Technical Editor Reprinted from Control Design, Jun 27, 2019 https://www.controldesign.com/articles/2019/the-accumulating-case-for-deterministic-control/ What do machine builders, system integrators and manufacturers need to know about time-sensitive networking (TSN)? In simplest terms, it is better Ethernet. What used to be many networks and gateways to meet performance requirements will be deterministic control and information on a […]

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