ABB Expands Industrial Robot Portfolio
More robot news emanating from a trade show in Germany. This one concerns additions to the ABB product line. Company launches the IRB 6730S, IRB 6750S and IRB 6760 with class-leading performance New robots, powered by OmniCore, offer significant performance and...
UR Studio – an online simulation tool to customize robot cell
Innovation continues in the collaborative robot market in Denmark. And to think I once thought the robot market was mature and not interesting. Universal Robots (UR), a part of Teradyne Robotics, has presented UR Studio, a powerful online simulation tool built on...
Interact Analysis Issues Robot and Vision Market Reports
I’m not a huge fan of market studies. My skepticism began at university in my first macro economics class. However, Interact Analysis’s methodology comes closest to winning me over than any others. Here are two recent reports from China-based market analyst Samantha...
Foxit Adds AI Summaries and APIs To pdf Product Solutions
Foxit, the pdf and eSignature upstart, has released two new products. Foxit Seeks Making pdf Documents Meet Today’s Requirements Foxit Launches AI-Powered Research Agent to Transform How Users Analyze Complex Documents New AI Tool Turns Dense Research Documents Into...
Intelligent Application of Technology Boosts Business at Hill Manufacturing
The marketing people at Hexagon tried to set up a meeting with Mike Payne, co-owner and president, Hill Manufacturing in Tulsa, OK, while we were at the Hexagon Live event in June in Las Vegas. We couldn’t connect then, but we finally caught up this week. I wanted the...
Podcast: AI Obfuscation
AI has generated more hype and obfuscation than all the words from ChatGPT. OK, maybe I exaggerate, but the amount of scare talk is endless. I try to take a more rational and down-to-earth look at the issue from the point-of-view of manufacturers. I argue that AI now...
Two Strands Come Together As Leading Single Pair Ethernet Network Associations Join Forces
Up at my usual 5:30 am this morning. In place of my usual routine, I joined a Microsoft Teams conference at 6:00 (1300 CEST) for the announcement of two network associations from Germany, each promoting Single Pair Ethernet (SPE), have joined forces for joint...
Reshoring Initiative Report and News
I have had a bunch of vacation travel (with another upcoming) so am a bit behind on some news. The Reshoring Initiative has had an admirable proselytizing activity for quite some time. I’ve met and talked with its President, Harry Moser, a couple of times. Even...
Yokogawa Collaborates with Shell on Robotics and AI Technology for Plant Maintenance
Process automation companies like sending press releases when they get a new project. This news in interesting on two fronts. One, it details the use of drones and robots for monitoring and maintenance. Two, this details Yokogawa and Shell working together on the...
Trump Administration New Plan for Apple Manufacturing
There are two groups of people I’ve yet to see anything approaching intelligence about manufacturing—politicians and journalists. M.G. Siegler writes in his latest newsletter about the new pressures from the Trump administration to get Apple to manufacture iPhones in...
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