How can we reduce waste and become more lean? One way is to identify losses around a robot cell operation. A manager once said “You can never recover lost robot cell time”. Goal: minimize idle robot cell time How do we capture losses? How do we categorize those losses? How do we put that process […]
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Futura Automation is an American company owing a profound debt of gratitude to everyone who has made America the home of liberty and freedom that it is today. As the founder of Futura Automation, I am offering this excerpt from the auto-biography of my father, Donald W McMorris, as an example of and tribute to […]
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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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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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