Manufacturing, Packaging & Logistics In-Depth Focus 2019

whitePaper | January 2, 2023

Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Injection Molding (IM) are often perceived as competing plastic processing technologies. However, organizations must be ready to utilize and switch between different production technologies to address changing product requirements, shift production schedules based on market demands, or respond to supply chain crises. This includes making both technologies complementary, not exclusive.

whitePaper | September 21, 2023

Automation is improving the overall productivity of discrete manufacturing plants and facilities, delivering a range of goods from automobiles and electronics to furniture and toys to countless other items. The complexity of coordinating personnel, work procedures, material handling, and automated equipment – all while meeting production goals – make increasing digitalization and use of data across the enterprise and in production essential. Perhaps most important is the ability to put the control engineer, line worker, and design engineer in the middle of this critical data to derive actionable insights and provide real-time decision support. The constantly growing capabilities of digital technologies are creating more opportunities for discrete manufacturers to drive increasingly reliable and more efficient operations.

whitePaper | July 29, 2023

Your design engineers are masters at coming up with elegant solutions to challenges. But they probably aren’t familiar with the cuttingedge manufacturing technologies, processes, and materials that can transform those solutions into feasible medical components and products that are cost-effective to produce and valued by end-users. That often results in a disconnect between design and manufacturing that can cost you both time and money.

whitePaper | November 8, 2022

The industry is currently undergoing its fourth revolution. The third industrial revolution introduced automation, which created data. I4.0 is the movement to translate data into information. This is paving the way for introducing a high level of autonomy by utilizing smart decision-making through advanced physical or statistical modelling to achieve self-adaptation, self-diagnosis, and self-healing. This is truly relevant for the companies, as the conventional systems are unable to adapt to the highly increasing complexity and dynamic of the production environment

whitePaper | March 3, 2022

Thanks to innovations in vision, mapping, safety and other technologies developed for self-driving vehicles, AMRs have overcome traditional barriers to automation in distribution centers (DCs) and complex manufacturing operations. They’re smart enough to “share the road” with human co-workers and other vehicles, find a different route if their original path is blocked, and respond to rapid changes in orders or logistics needs — all without human intervention. AMRs are also highly cost-effective, requiring minimal information technology (IT) or infrastructural changes and only a short integration period to learn their surroundings.

whitePaper | June 8, 2020

Before cobots and other fast-deployable robots, many automated manufacturing cells incorporated only fixed or dedicated tooling rather than solutions that allow for changes or updates. An advantage of fixed automation is that it allows for reliable and high throughput, but it also tends to be custom engineered towards a specific process. Any changes in the workpiece or production process often mean redesigning large sections of the fixed automation system or even starting completely over from scratch.