Introduction to Conveyor Systems in Automation

Futura Automation, LLC is a solutions provider for automation conveying and robotic systems. With today’s newsletter, we are pleased to provide an in-depth overview of the 10 most important types of automation conveyor systems, excluding screw, pneumatic, overhead, and magnetic conveyors, along with their key industrial applications. There are a wide variety of material handling […]

How to Repair or Rebuild Your Ultrasonic Welding Horn or Sonotrode

Selecting a manufacturer for ultrasonic_horns is critical to ensuring quality, performance, and longevity in your ultrasonic_welding or cutting applications. Here are the top five criteria to consider: Here is how Futura Automation, LLC Automation with our partner Rinco Ultrasonics USA can support your ultrasonic horn repair and replacement requirements: Materials: Application areas: Please contact tech@futura-automation.comfor […]

Increase the Uptime and Life of your Robot

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get rid of downtime and repairs caused by malfunctions and frequent robot cleaning and repair? The perfect applications to use robots are often referred to as “3D” – “Dull, Dirty and Dangerous”; especially those last two points are where we see a lot of harmful factors – for example: High Temperature Hot Particles […]

How Robots and Precision Machines can be Protected in a Harsh Environment

Protecting robots, their cousins, cobots (collaborative robots) and precision servo-driven machinery from environmental hazards is crucial for ensuring their longevity, functionality, and reliability. As robots become increasingly integral to various industries, from manufacturing and healthcare to exploration, mining, agriculture and domestic services, safeguarding them from environmental challenges is essential. This discussion explores the importance of […]

Reshoring and Nearshoring Trends and How Advances in the Automation Industry Make North America Competitive

POSTED 07/03/2024  | By: Carrine Greason, A3 Contributing Editor Reshoring is gaining momentum — a lot of it. Manufacturers are rapidly bringing production back to the United States from overseas or at least closer to home in a related move called nearshoring. Both reshoring and foreign direct investment have grown, from generating 11,000 new U.S.-based jobs per year […]

A Brief History of Human Labor: On the Road to “The Workless Week”

Since the beginning of mankind, somewhere in central Africa about 2 million years ago, there has been a steady, if not logarithmic, progression towards reducing the amount of human labor required for output gained, thereby improving the quality of human life (assuming less work equals more quality). This week to prove the point, I have […]

Autonomous Welding for Transportation Industries with Garmo Instruments

“Autonomous Welding” is the use of robots and AI software to track a pre-programmed welding task and make adjustments to that program dynamically as conditions change. While automobiles require welding of the chassis and body parts, the volumes of a given model produced are very high and so the parts requiring welding can be precisely […]

Happy Holidays 2023 from Futura Automation

Dear Customer and Friend Another year is drawing to a close.  You have been our good friend or customer in the past and we hope this year has been good to you and that you will have a fantastic year in 2024. Futura Automation, LLC has grown a bit in 2023.  It was a slower […]

Simple Solutions | Autonomous Welding Solution Comparisons

GarLine & SharpTrack ― cutting-edge seam tracking solutions for “autonomous welding” Manufacturing is becoming more and more automated and increasingly demanding of easy-to-use solutions. In the welding sector, due to the lack of qualified welding personnel, automated and robotic welding solutions are in high demand and at the same time becoming more cost effective for […]

Simple Solutions | 3 New Methods for Autonomous (Robot) Welding and Dispensing

By:  Brian McMorris Futura Automation President    June 19, 2023 Futura Automation announces North American partnership with Garmo Instruments of Spain Futura Automation is pleased to announce our exclusive partnership with Garmo Instruments of Zaragosa, Spain. This new line brings to our North American customers an economical range of laser seam tracking vision sensors for […]