Robotics

While manufacturing automation has been on the rise for decades, the pandemic revealed both pressing needs and new methods for harnessing robotic power. The labor shortages of the Covid era, coupled with broad advances in collaborative robot technology during the past five years, gave us the market pull and technology push to quickly up our...

We often recommend that small and medium manufacturers (SMMs) make the effort to attend major automation and advanced manufacturing technology trade shows whenever they can. It’s the best way to see the widest range of technologies and talk with industry experts all in one place. The Automate show is one of the largest robot-focused events...

The primary process today for robotic arc directed energy deposition (DED), used for large-scale additive manufacturing builds, is gas metal arc welding. However, two other processes, plasma-arc (PA) and gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding, have been recently studied at EWI and shown to offer greater control over power and material inputs during a build. EWI...