Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.01
October 02, 2020
…a diverse range of companies manufacturing offers, from small, local businesses to global Fortune 500 companies, in industries from aerospace to pharmaceuticals; earning $88,406 annually on average, including pay and benefits; working in an industry that employs more than 12.13 million workers across the country; hands-on experience with innovative technology, including 3D printing, drones and virtual reality; opportunity to work on real, tangible products that improve people's lives, from lifesaving medical equipment to food products; and career growth that starts at entry level but allows for additional training and promotion opportunities. “As we celebrate MFG Day across the country over…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.63
December 01, 2019
…through the material and induce the shape-memory effect through local heating. Applications of this composite include a robot ‘muscle’ and stretchable circuit wiring that can remain functional when punctured or torn (Fig. 2).” Fig. 2: This series of images shows a deformable liquid crystal elastomer matrix, a shape-morphing, self-healing material that can function like muscle or nervous tissue, enabling soft robots to autonomously respond to dynamic operating conditions. Image courtesy of Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University. Benefits of Soft Materials Compliance has proven to be a main advantage offered by these machines. One of the most important advantages lies…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.13
October 01, 2019
…course is ideal for “those involved in aerospace, medical, motor sports, power/energy, industrial machinery, automotive, and consumer products.” The one-day course in Youngstown lists about 12 separate presentations and lectures, ranging from “State of the AM industry” to “Economics of AM.” There will also be an expert panel session, hands-on exercises related to part consolidation, and sessions related to polymer AM processes and designing for metal AM. “AM is an inherently multidisciplinary technology,” says Ray Huff, associate engineer and DfAM instructor at Wohlers Associates. “Just as product development teams must rethink the way a product is designed, company management must…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.27
May 06, 2019
…and New Penn subsidiaries, with the exception of one local unit, unanimously voted to endorse the tentative National Master Freight Agreement, paving the way for last week’s membership vote. In a previous update to YRC membership, the Teamsters noted that for the past decade, the YRCW operating companies have operated under a series of Memoranda of Understandings (MOUs) that contained significant economic concessions necessary to allow the company to survive. “At the outset of bargaining, in addition to seeking to reverse the trend of giving concessions, the union committee determined that it was necessary to get out from under the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.62
March 25, 2019
…the market at high enough efficiency such as the motor and the rotor blades just to name a few examples,” Zosel says. “For our first Prototype the design process then was a little over a year.” The company is currently using data collected from its test flights of the 1:1 prototypes into the company’s simulation tools and software to improve the design. The company used SolidEdge CAD tools from Siemens PLM Software to develop the first generation of aircraft. “We needed to improve various parts that were not available on the market at high enough efficiency such as the motor…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.64
January 25, 2019
…in a variety of industries: Manufacturing: Boeing and Ford Motor Company both have been pursuing robotic exoskeletons to help reduce risks to workers (Hitch 2018). For even more human-robot collaboration, Volkswagen is teaming up with Dresden, Germany-based startup Wandelbots to more efficiently train industrial robots using an innovative jacket fitted with sensors and actuators. The sensors on the jacket detect human movements in real time, and the actuators provide haptic feedback. In this way, a robot can watch a human complete a task and then absorb the movement data to imitate the actions (MM&D Online Staff 2018). Distribution: In distribution…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.94
November 22, 2018
…working out kinks in the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion. The combination is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive and trucking industry and position Intel as a leading technology provider for highly and fully autonomous vehicles. So What’s Happening in Trucking? Last October, a unit of Uber called Otto successfully produced a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.84
February 01, 2018
…is split into five surveys investigating the freight forwarding, motor carrier, express and warehousing sectors as well as the increasingly important topic of “environment and ethics” in global logistics. While the individual surveys identify a different set of challenges for each of the logistics markets, disruption was one of the most important trends, which was identified across all the segments. In each case, innovation and disruption was regarded as a “double-edged” sword. For example, a large proportion of respondents in the forwarding sector believed that traditional freight intermediaries would lose out to new entrants, but at the same time saw…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.02
November 22, 2017
…chasing them extends from Apple and Google to General Motors and Otto, to name just a few of the many. It’s entirely possible that autonomous vehicles are the best funded R&D project in the history of mankind. “Autonomous vehicles are a competition, a race. The quickest and best companies at it will make billions if not trillions from the technology,” says Kevin Lacy, director of the transportation, mobility and safety division for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. See “The Interview” in this edition of NextGen Supply Chain for Lacy’s state-level view of autonomous vehicles. Part of the shakeout here…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.24
October 04, 2017
…students from Oakland Schools’ four technical campuses and other local schools will tour 35 high-tech manufacturing locations in the county Oct. 6 as part of National Manufacturing Day. Students will see firsthand the state-of-the-art technologies used in today’s manufacturing and discuss the processes with the highly skilled professionals during facility tours scheduled throughout Oakland County during the morning-long event. “The goal of our third annual Manufacturing Day in Oakland County is to inspire our young people to pursue careers in manufacturing and the skilled trades,” County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said. “There are a lot of great, in-demand jobs available…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.74
January 01, 2016
…(SFEG) is a manufacturer of a range of electrical motors and components. As a high-mix, low-volume producer, the company was challenged to automate lines that are not always running. As an alternative to more costly, fixed industrial robots, the company deployed a fleet of collaborative mobile robots to automate monotonous and repetitive tasks. “We wanted to build a mobile, flexible robot workforce,” says Matthew Bush, director of operations at SFEG. “The only way we would accomplish this was with a collaborative robot. It’s got the speed and precision of a standard industrial robot with the ability to move around and…
