Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.40
October 19, 2020
…based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30%–50% more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost. With this performance and efficiency, Azure Data Explorer customers can improve the real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices and more. “The uplift in performance and efficiency capabilities provided by the AMD EPYC powered VMs on Microsoft Azure Data Explorer is another great proof point of the performance capabilities of our processors,” says Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD. “The AMD, Azure and Azure Data…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.42
October 07, 2020
…RTX A6000 has exceeded our expectations and shown performance gains of over 2x with ray-traced exterior scenes. It’s quite impressive.” Other early adopters of the new GPUs include Predator Cycling, which is evaluating the NVIDIA RTX A6000 to accelerate design processes. Performance gains of 2-6x across a number of key applications give the team the power to simultaneously run analysis, modeling and screen-sharing on a video call. Architectural design firm HKS says the RTX A6000 can enable receipt of near instantaneous feedback on design changes while running simulations in real time. According to NVIDIA, both new GPUs benefit from the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.67
October 06, 2020
…enormous returns with Seegrid’s vehicles,” said Tom Panzarella, Box Robotics Co-Founder. “This technology will enable Seegrid’s autonomous vehicles to gain an even more comprehensive understanding of the world, enabling them to be more productive and save customers time and money.” Seegrid’s acquisition of Box Robotics comes on the heels of the company closing a $52 million growth equity financing round last month, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $150 million. Seegrid intends to use the additional capital to accelerate new product development and increase the size of its workforce as it continues to deliver best-in-class automation solutions for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.94
September 29, 2020
…pandemic. They must now transform their supply chain to gain competitive advantage. Exotec is addressing this challenge and is the leading player in scalable robotics systems,” said Rudi Lueg, managing director of North America at Exotec. The partnership announced at the end of 2019 between Exotec and international retail company, Fast Retailing, is now delivering its benefits to the group. The technology is under deployment in two warehouses in Japan, with 1,000 Skypods improving logistics efficiency for Uniqlo stores. Exotec Nihon has been created to support the operations in Japan and more than 30 employees will be hired in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.11
September 28, 2020
The two guests on this episode are from SICK's corporate headquarters in Germany - Michael Repplinger, Head of Product Management for Mobile Platforms, and Michael Dold, Strategic Industry Manager for Industrial Vehicles. They have a discussion with our host, Rolf Agner, about some trends they are seeing in the industry and why SICK is excited about robotics. By listening to this episode, you’ll gain insights on: Industry trends for mobile platforms Different sensor solutions available to optimize mobile platforms How AMRs are changing the material handling industry Subscribe the On Air with SICK USA wherever you get your podcasts!
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.06
September 22, 2020
…all with vivid realism. In the process, their clients gain a deeper understanding of each customer that opens up new opportunities to better serve them across channels. “Our collaboration with Materialise will help us deliver on our goal of making eyewear more personal. The shift towards eCommerce, digitally enabled smart stores and digital manufacturing is inevitable,” says Kate Doerksen, Ditto’s CEO and co-founder. “We are excited to bring combined solutions to our clients to create a differentiated, personalized customer experience and product offering.” The digital manufacturing technology makes it possible to shift from inventory-focused production to a more customer-centric approach,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.01
September 16, 2020
…associates when needed. The reason is that “we don’t gain any economies of scale doing service and maintenance with our own staff, so it was an easy decision to outsource those functions,” he says. The facility has been running for four years, with a major expansion of the goods-to-person picking area underway. Whether it’s the best retail DC in the world may be difficult to answer, but for one of Northern Europe’s leading retailers, it is “a world-class facility that we use as a precision tool for inventory management to deliver the correct items to our stores, when they need…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.88
September 15, 2020
…large-scale AM technologies evolved and 3D printing, in general, gains traction, companies are more willing to consider the methods as a legitimate alternative to traditional manufacturing modes such as molding, milling and casting. The companies designing novel products in emerging categories such as electric mobility solutions are already predisposed to thinking outside the box and therefore are more open to modifying long-standing processes, including new modes of manufacturing, says Frank Marangell, chief business officer and U.S. president for Big Rep, which specializes in industrial AM printers and services. The abrupt disruptions to in-person work environments and to the global supply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.68
August 27, 2020
…remained largely in the same order and many showed gains. Following two years of double-digit growth, the list’s combined revenues grew 7.3% in 2019 to more than $23 billion. Norm Saenz, managing director at consulting firm St. Onge: “This is what we were seeing over the last year, as many companies looked to automation to deal with surging e-commerce volumes, increasing SKUs and a shortage in the labor force. Although many projects will continue through the crisis, others were and might remain in a wait-and-see mode. Coming out of this pandemic, we expect companies to rebound and possibly spend more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.78
August 21, 2020
…WMS working together,” says Gilmore. Predictive and Automatic To gain maximum benefit from WES, it’s best to let the software’s algorithms automatically make many decisions around balanced flow and order release, rather than kicking them up for review by managers. Gilmore says one customer deploying Softeon’s WES initially wanted some decisions elevated to managers for review, but during implementation, the supervisors didn’t have enough time to do those reviews, so they let the WES make decisions autonomously. “It operated flawlessly, so they decided, ‘we’re not going to back to recommendation mode,’” says Gilmore. While business intelligence features live under WES…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.45
August 21, 2020
…queuing print jobs to each connected machine. Users can gain insights into their print jobs and track their projects using the queue and print history features. Collaboration: Printers can be grouped into workspaces and shared with teams, production areas or classrooms to reduce the hassles and redundancies of multiple printer management. Permissions can be set for team members to allow for better control and access to the workspace. Submission links can be created to allow anyone to submit print jobs for approval. Advanced METHOD platform settings: MakerBot CloudPrint unlocks expert settings on the METHOD platform for users who need more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.58
August 13, 2020
…The survey was designed to help advanced manufacturing managers gain significant competitive advantages by harnessing technology to strengthen and improve the capabilities of workers and managers, speed the pace of innovation and lower the costs of production and maintenance. “Digital transformation is vital to manufacturers' ongoing success,” says Sandra L. Bouckley, FSME, P.Eng., executive director and CEO, SME. “These survey results underscore that the transition to digital manufacturing was well underway even before COVID-19—if anything, the pandemic is only accelerating an established trend—and that competitive advantage can only be maintained by embracing digital innovation.” The survey, conducted with a group…
