Simple Solutions | 4 Ways Gantry Robots Beat Articulated Robot Arms

By:  Brian McMorris – President    March 26, 2023 Futura Automation, LLC (www.futura-automation.com) provides a range of robotic, automation and motion-controlled solutions. This week’s newsletter from Futura Automation explains the benefits of Cartesian robots, especially those supplied by Macron Dynamics, Inc., as compared to the other major industrial robot topologies: Articulated, Delta and SCARA. This article will […]

Simple Solutions: Robotic Welding Systems

This week’s Simple Solutions features Robotic Welding Systems and CDS Positioners The Benefits of Robotic Welding Article courtesy of A3 (Association for Advancing Automation) Robotics Online Marketing Team Robotic welding technologies are appearing more and more – in large manufacturing plants and small, project-based workshops. While a robotic welding system often calls for a hefty […]

Simple Solutions | Press Brake Automation

This week’s Simple Solutions features Press Brake Machine Tending ARTICLE: How the welding cobot changes the metal fabrication shop Article source: Fabricator.com – full article HERE Collaborative robots have come a long way during the past decade, particularly in metal manufacturing. They began as a curiosity. Some shops purchased a cobot or two just to see […]

Ready Robotics featured on Automate.org

Ready Robotics featured by Automate.org

Advances in Usability Automate.org features Ready Robotics and other Automation Solutions: POSTED 05/13/2022 | By: Emmet Cole, Contributing Editor – click here for original article  Robotmaster enables process experts to program with confidence via intuitive visualizations that guide the user to generate optimized and error-free robot programs. One of the most powerful trends in industrial robotics over the […]

Futura Automation is Pleased to Introduce Troax for Machine Guarding

Industrial Machine Guarding Troax offers a flexible system of modular protective walls for production environments. The systems are based on posts with different fittings that are combined with sturdy panels of metal mesh, sheeting or polycarbonate. The posts fit several fitting systems so you can create the optimal combination for your machine guarding cell. All […]

Introducing RPS – Robot Protection Systems – Covers for Challenging Environments

Futura-Automation.com of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA has exclusively partnered in North America with Robot Protection Systems (RPS) GmbH of Tutzing, Germany.  RPS has led in the specification, design and manufacture of protective covers, turnbuckles and windows for robotic and other industrial applications.  Futura Automation and RPS are able to provide robot protection solutions for welding, painting, […]

Visual Components 4.2: Efficient Plant and Machine Design and Simulation

December 20, 2019 – Scottsdale, Arizona Reprinted from June 21, 2016  issue of Robotics Business Review Original by Eugene DeMaitre;  Edits and Updates by Brian McMorris Following is an updated and edited reprint of an article in the June 21, 2016 issue of Robotics Business Review: ODENSE, Denmark — Industrial automation promises greater efficiency, but […]

The Future Population of Industrial Robots

How ubiquitous will Industrial Robots be?   We see photos and videos now all the time of robots welding car bodies.  It is an exciting application with big strong arms swinging around car bodies with sparks flying.  But the car body welding is a single application in manufacturing among hundreds or thousands.  In what other applications will robots […]

A History Timeline of Industrial Robotics

A Timeline History of Robotics     IN THE BEGINNING   Before 1920 In ancient times, the percursors to robots were Automata, the word which was originally an Italian renaissance term for a mechanical device, usually powered by water, windpower or clockwork.  The word Automaton was a plural version and came to mean a self-operating […]

November 2018 Newsletter: Go LEAN to WIN!

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   FUTURA AUTOMATION | LEAN PRACTICES,  SMART ROBOTS and CREATIVE SOLUTIONS Streamline manufacturing by  eliminating waste and cost. Our primary mandate and mission is to counsel and support American manufacturers in solutions for advanced manufacturing and robotics (LEAN manufacturing) delivering a leading position in global competitiveness American companies strive to regain global competitiveness and attract back the […]