Tele-manufacturing

Tele-manufacturing™ combines advanced robotics, sensing, control systems, and digital communication to enable remote execution of manufacturing tasks. This approach addresses challenges around skilled labor shortages, physically demanding work, and the need for more flexible industrial processes. EWI engineers have demonstrated these principles with a tele-polishing system using a FANUC CRX collaborative robot and a Logitech...

The Future of QA/QC in Advanced Manufacturing Speed, smarter sensors, and the human-in-the-loop advantage As reshoring, reinvestment, and rapid innovation reshape North American manufacturing, one area is emerging as a cornerstone of competitiveness: quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC). Manufacturers are facing unprecedented pressure to get products to market faster, operate efficiently, and ensure uncompromising...

In the past several years, EWI has successfully developed tele-manufacturing™ capabilities to remotely operate several fabrication processes. Our latest tele-task transformation is arc gouging. In a project supported by the Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA), EWI set out to automate specific manual foundry processes known for being difficult, dirty, and/or dangerous. Carbon arc gouging...