- Preferred Suppliers Speed Integration
Serving customers in industries as varied as automotive, medical device and nuclear power, automated assembly machine builder, Wright Industries, a Doerfer Company, builds a variety of custom-designed automated assembly equipment—from complete turnkey systems to single station machines. Such machine builders must become experts on automation technologies from multiple suppliers, while ......
- Building an Automated Assembly System
Manufacturers rely heavily on automated assembly machinery to meet two critical production requirements: speed and cost-efficiency. However, with today's extreme customization and shortened product life cycles, machine flexibility also rates high on the requirements list. Driving this demand are cost savings and time-to-market advantages inherent with ability to modify a ......
- Trends in 300 mm Factory Automation
The concept of a fully automated factory has been around for some time, but with the introduction of high-volume 300 mm manufacturing, it is now much closer to reality. The cooperative efforts between end users and equipment manufacturers, researchers and industry organizations have brought the industry a considerable way down ......
- Real-time communications by time slicing
Ethernet Powerlink is a decentralized real-time communication system for automation and motion control, which originally was developed by B&R Industrial Automation Corp.'s Austria-based parent company, Bernecker & Rainer Industrie Elektronik GmbH. B&R's innovation reportedly helped make Ethernet deterministic for real-time industrial applications. B&R's automation products feature Ethernet Powerlink in visualization, ......
- Rockwell sues Schneider, Solaia, law firm over patent lawsuits
Milwaukee, WI— Rockwell Automation Inc. filed a lawsuit on Dec. 10 in the U.S. Circuit Court's eastern Wisconsin district that charges Schneider Automation (North Andover, MA), Solaia Technology LLC and the law firm of Niro, Scavone, Haller and Niro Ltd. (both of Chicago, IL) with conspiring in violation of antitrust ......
- NIST's process control forum helps networks prevent cyber attacks
Gaithersburg, MD— A 500-member forum of industry, government, and academic technical experts, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has released a new draft set of cyber security requirements for industrial control systems. The requirements in this 149-page document, "System Protection Profile for Industrial Control Systems (SPP-ICS)," ......
- ATI Industrial Automation: ISO 9001
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Company name: ATI Industrial Automation Company profile: ATI Industrial Automation is the leading engineering-based world developer of robotic end-effectors, including Automatic Tool Changers, Multi-axis Force/Torque Sensing Systems, Robotic & CNC Deburring Tools, Robotic Crash Protection Devices and Collision Sensors, Robotic Rotary Joints, and Compliance Devices. Our products are found in ......