Automation and Robotics - Traditional articulated-arm robots in plasma cutting, welding, and powder coating; pick-and-place robots in material handling; collaborative robots (cobots); automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMR); automated storage and retrieval systems, offloading, and part stacking in blanking; automatic tool changing (ATC) in bending; advanced, even self-programming robotics in welding: The content in this area describes how automation and robotics are driving metal fabrication forward.
AMADA offers a three-step process to ensure that a metal fabricating shop gets to the point where it is shipping products, on time and as specified, in the most profitable manner possible. robot ugv
Prima Industrie SpA, through its Prima Power brand, has acquired Sistec AM, a provider of industrial automation.
Civan Lasers has opened advanced demonstration labs at AMET in Rexburg, Ohio, and Photon Automation in Detroit.
Thyssenkrupp Materials NA, Southfield, Mich., has announced its acquisition of Cobotix Mfg. Inc., a precision metal fabricator specializing in copper and aluminum in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
The nation’s largest cobot conference and tradeshow, Collaborate North America 2025, takes place in Novi, Mich., on Jan. 28, 2025. Free to attend, this one-day, in-person event brings together more than 500 manufacturing professionals from across North America, automation specialists, educators,...
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” offers an analogy for the temporal orientation of manufacturing data—and how we respond to it.
Prime Controls has introduced the DS-FLEX, a multichannel, flexible system that detects double sheets of ferrous and nonferrous metals, as well as the presence or absence of metal.
SafanDarley North America LLC has introduced the Multi Cell, an automated bending system for products up to 500 by 2,000 mm and 40 to 125 tons of pressing force.
Spartan Robotics, a division of BlueBay Automation, has unveiled a new cobot welding cell developed in collaboration with Bosch Rexroth, Kassow Robots, and Fronius.
Mid Atlantic Machinery, a provider of new and pre-owned metal fabrication equipment, will host Steel Tech 2025 at its Harrisburg, Pa., facility Feb. 4-6. It will highlight advancements in manufacturing technology, including laser cutting equipment, finishing machines, and automation systems....
FANUC has introduced the M-950iA heavyweight industrial robot.
BBQGUYS uses sales and lead time forecasting that relies on artificial intelligence, including some advanced machine learning algorithms. The resulting intelligence helps streamline its inventory and make the most out of its sheet metal fabrication automation.
Grand Isle Shipyard (G.I.S.) has announced the installation of a Voortman V-807 robotic structural profiler at its Houston facility.
Christian Grindle has joined MC Machinery Systems as robotic bending specialist in the Fabrication Division.
Bystronic has launched the ByCell Bend Star M, based on the recently introduced ByBend Star 120 press brake.
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
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