Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.80
March 01, 2018
…continued investment interest or modest growth, with WES/WCS, a category directly tied to control of automated equipment, making strong gains. As Saenz notes, the survey does reflect confidence in the economy and willingness to move forward on projects, but many are being selective, or considering more 3PL services to quickly address needs. “I think many companies are being smart about investing in some targeted types of automation,” he says. “E-commerce pressures are likely pushing the overall direction. Companies are looking for systems that will help them compete and be effective as more get involved in e-commerce or are getting pulled…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.79
July 01, 2019
…on to keep the IoT device synchronized. Often the gains made going from 90 nm to 40 nm—for the SoC [system on a chip] to get more performance or shrink the die for cost—lock the SoC out of markets dominated by off leakage currents.” Designers seeking greater energy efficiency must consider power dissipation, which varies with the processing platform used. “Power dissipation is very important in microprocessor–based applications because the power dissipation is much higher than on most MCUs,” says Bouzereau. “However, on high-performance MCUs, the power dissipation becomes more important and requires more attention from the developer. The key…
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 1.75
March 25, 2019
…fleets. As 5G networks become more prevalent, cities will gain invaluable access to real-time, end-to-end visibility into their transportation systems. 5G could allow enhanced vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V), a key component to improving road safety in the emerging world of driverless vehicles. It is essential that V2V communications take place in real time, as a matter of milliseconds could be the difference between a close call and a fatal collision. Achieving this high speed of interconnectivity requires vehicles to transmit large amounts of data between each other without any lags. 5G networks could make this possible with their low latency. 5G…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.74
October 16, 2022
…reported that manufacturing in the U.S. added a net gain of 67,000 workers over pre-pandemic levels for the first time since the 1970s. The Times suggested that this uptick is in large measure in response to supply chain issues with China and localizing inventories with new “grey-collar” jobs managing robots. I think Erik Nieves, CEO of Plus One Robotics, said it best at the summit: “Well, it was clear that there was not going to be enough labor to manage all of the deliveries and the packaging as we continue to move our commerce online.” “But COVID acted as an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.71
May 29, 2023
…Industrial Internet with a path to significant operational efficiency gains,” said Tai-Yu Chou, chief technology officer at Foxconn Industrial Internet. “The combination of NVIDIA Metropolis for Factories and Isaac Sim for robotics is helping us realize industrial automation goals faster than ever imagined.” Innodisk is deploying NVIDIA Metropolis to automate inspection processes, saving cost and improving production efficiency. Techman Robot turns to Isaac Sim Quanta, a major manufacturer of laptops and other electronic hardware, is using AI robots from its Techman Robot subsidiary to inspect the quality of manufactured products. Taiwan-based Techman is simulating, testing, and optimizing its collaborative robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.70
July 10, 2019
…can stay at a more comfortable work cell and gain experience working with AMRs. “When you put robots into warehouses it’s typically a better working environment for the human workers,” says Barber. Not all AMRs function alike. Some solutions work on a good-to-person principle, bringing rolling shelves with goods to a workstation, while others work in aisles alongside humans, and others handle material transfer tasks. There are also mobile robots with sorter mechanisms or roller conveyor attachments on top, making it possible for a bot to transfer goods to fixed automation. Another variation are mobile bots that have a picking…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.70
July 05, 2022
…amount of data that can be analyzed for productivity gains. Beumer is well known for its sorters, but as Titze explains, it also offers machine control, WCS and digital products such as its BG Insight software that offers data analytics with visualizations and machine learning to inspect root causes of inefficiencies and alarms. “Optimized systems will rely more and more on the data, especially when more automated systems become increasingly complex to operate,” said Titze. Beumer’s systems generally can integrate with any WES or WCS, though its own WCS can be configured and used to optimize the sortation equipment and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.69
October 11, 2017
…shopping cart to warehouse management system to fulfillment, both gain long-term value.” Read: FLEXE’s Warehousing, Fulfillment, & Delivery Option Faster than Amazon Prime Robotic Automation Delivers Flexibility That more focused approach is enabling certain 3PLs to attain the types of volumes that are substantial enough, and customers who are dependable enough, for them to justify making capital expenditures into select materials handling automation technologies that they’ve historically avoided. Among these solutions are robotics to help 3PLs flexibly cope with seasonal surges inherent to retail e-fulfillment, as well as with multiple clients and their variable service-level expectations. Quiet Logistics, a 3PL…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.69
November 16, 2020
…surfaced on-demand to those who need it. As AI gains a firmer foothold in the simulation arena, companies will be able to more clearly define data management requirements. “As the use of machine learning expands, new demands on data management will emerge so that one can determine what data was used to train a neural network and how that data can be augmented in the future,” says Mas. Chances of success If you brush aside the enthusiasm and the hype, what are the odds of successfully incorporating AI into the design simulation process? While AI has been effectively harnessed in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.69
January 06, 2021
…fully invested in leveraging simulation and computational modeling to gain an in-depth understanding of its systems, which in turn will give them more confidence in what they ultimately take to clinical trials, according to officials. Parent company BioMerieux has long tapped COMSOL simulation tools early in its process to optimize device designs through system modeling, while at BioFire, the practice comes into play in the post-release process to get a deeper understanding of complex systems to aid in making changes and supporting legacy systems. Although the simulation and modeling work won’t serve as a replacement for physical clinical trials, it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.67
April 01, 2019
…a 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace vendor. “Customers have different channels to gain access to us. So this is another channel,” says Cronin. On the other hand, Fictiv is not part of it. “Fictiv does not belong to any such marketplace and does not plan to join in the future,” says Evans. “Our vision is to build a single destination for manufacturing needs from prototyping to production.” Xometry offers plug-ins for SolidWorks and its rival, Autodesk Inventor. The software-embedded connection allows SolidWorks and Inventor users to perform manufacturing checks and cost analysis early in the design process, from within the CAD software itself.…
