Smart factory technologies, IIoT, and digital transformation
What is ISA95 and where did it come from? Though it was launched in 1995, one might say ISA95 is just now coming into its own under the re-branding of Industry 4.0. It has been adopted as ISO / IEC 62264 with latest edition in 2016. ISA95 is a 25 year standard with legs. ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as […]
Futura Automation at ATX West / MD&M Expo in Anaheim CA on February 5-7 Futura Automation will be exhibiting at the ATX West / MD&M Expo in Anaheim at the Convention Center on February 5-7. We are in exhibit #4481. Several of our “Industry 4.0” product lines and services will be on display. Come see […]
Download the Whitepaper 4 Principles of Industry 4.0 From Forbes Magazine, September 17, 2018 by Adi Gaskell: Industry 4.0 was first proposed in Germany in 2011, and purports to propel us into a new way of thinking about industry. It contains things such as the smart factory and cyber-physical monitoring systems, and broadly follows […]
Tulip makes its award-winning platform available online to manufacturers of all sizes, accelerating innovation with new cloud-based plans and a 30-day free trial. Empowers shop floor managers and manufacturing process engineers to build their own applications to support their own objectives; If you can think of the use-case, you can build the app. Is a “zero […]
GET IN TOUCH Meet the Workstation of the future: Futura Automation and Tulip present the Smart Workstation. The product is the result of a collaboration between the two companies, combining a manual production system with Tulip’s Manufacturing App Platform. You can build and customize your own workstation – GET IN TOUCH for a customized quote […]
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* 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 […]
<!doctype html> FUTURA AUTOMATION | SEPTEMBER ROBOT ISSUE Our automation partners help our customers achieve more: Today we’ll cover Advanced Manufacturing in the IIoT. This month’s email issue is devoted to our partners in automation. Check out the videos and resources on machine tending and the companies who help us achieve Advanced Manufacturing for our clients on a daily […]
New tools are emerging that allow programmers and technicians to remotely monitor and program equipment in the factory. There are many concerns Futura Automation is evaluating a new idea for a service offering that addresses the need and will provide Automation Services on Demand™ ASoD™ bringing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) benefits to small to […]
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Futura Automation, LLC is very pleased to have been named the Western and Southeastern USA partner of Robot System Products (RSP) of Västerås, Sweden through a relationship with Essential Robot Products of Bellbrook, Ohio. RSP has introduced a 20kg Swivel Tool Changer for all brands of robot arms: Fanuc, ABB, Kuka, Mitsubishi, Yaskawa, Panasonic, Nachi […]
