Automation systems are widely known to provide boosts to productivity and cost-effectiveness for industry. These benefits typically increase with more complex and sophisticated systems, which allow the user to achieve more. However, for machine builders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the increased complexity of automation can result in more time-consuming and expensive projects, presenting greater challenges to being cost-competitive and profitable.
For the public fully to accept driverless vehicles, they will need to be 100x safer than ordinary cars. That’s according to a recent report from the UK Government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), which provides expert advice to inform the policy realm of autonomous driving. Is scepticism toward autonomous solutions unique to cars? Here, Zohar Kantor, VP of Sales at Lean.AI, explains why quality managers don’t want fully autonomous machine vision.
Manufacturing sheet metal parts is challenging: the cost of each component is lower than in other industries like metal machining, which drives down the resources available to invest in quality control. Nevertheless, inspection remains critical for every sheet metal application. Here, Matt Parry, Applications Engineer at The Sempre Group, and Olivia McNeill, Sales & Marketing Manager at InspecVision, explains why automating inspection is critical.
Direct-drive motion solutions have a performance advantage over conventional mechanical transmission systems, but this comes at a premium. However, considering the value of the reduction in the total cost of ownership that can be presented to end users, integrating a direct-drive solution could help OEMs increase their rewards.
Automation systems are widely known to provide boosts to productivity and cost-effectiveness for industry. These benefits typically increase with more complex and sophisticated systems, which allow the user to achieve more. However, for machine builders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the increased complexity of automation can result in more time-consuming and expensive projects, presenting greater challenges to being cost competitive and profitable.
A waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in northern Paris, known as the ‘L'étoile Verte’ or ‘Green Star’ waste recovery facility, which was originally built in an industrial area, is now surrounded by residential development. This has presented a number of challenges, not least of which is odour.