The Robot Report - tracking the business of robotics. Programmed Job-Eliminators: Robots Elbow People Out Of The Workforce - EmploymentSpectator. The population of America continues to grow but the job growth does not keep up with this increase.
On the contrary there are less and less jobs available for the burgeoning workforce. Amongst the many reasons for this, one reason that most economists fail to address seriously, is automation and production improvements that allow machines to do most of the jobs – better, faster and more efficiently than humans. Modern technology is putting more and more labor-intensive jobs within the abilities of robots. Employers find them more cost-effective and hence lay-off the workers, whose work will now be done a machine. Most manufacturing companies in the country, make tall claims of bringing back manufacturing jobs to the country, because rising wages and other reasons have made it less economically viable to outsource manufacturing to China and other Asian countries. PODi 2012 Best Practices in Digital Printing Award Winners Announced : Page 1 of 1. January 10, 2012 ROCHESTER, NY—Jan. 10, 2012—PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, has announced the 2012 winners of the PODi Best Practices Awards for digital printing case studies.
These prestigious awards recognize outstanding examples of digital printing, cross media and relevant direct marketing campaigns. The winners will present their campaigns and receive their awards at the AppForum digital printing and direct marketing conference, set to run Jan. 23-25, 2012, at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. White Paper - Logistics Flow Control: Gaining Command of the Inbound Supply Chain.
What retailers want from their inbound supply chain is simple.
They want the greatest product availability with the lowest inventory. Or put another way, they want the right goods at the right and shortest time possible with the correct labeling and supporting electronic documentation to allow those goods to seamlessly flow through their distribution network to their stores or customers. ADOPTERS. Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone. I made this page out of frustration.
There is simply no easy way to add bookmarklets to your iPad or iPhone. I blagged a little about that here. I don't use Safari on my desktop, so I don't sync my bookmarks to my iDevices. Drukken in 5 stappen. Van het papiermagazijn tot de distributiekaaien verloopt het drukproces langs een strakke, logisch opgebouwde productielijn.
Paper logistics. The paper flow, from reel reception and storage to loading and stub removal, can be automated and networked by embedding KBA reelstands in our Patras reel-logistics system incorporating EcoSplice automatic splice preparation plus other transport and handling components.
KBA Patras reel handling KBA Patras is a flexible, high-performance Paper reel Transport System. Its modular design, supporting various levels of sophistication from manual to fully automatic complete with conveyor board, rails and reel dolly, means that it can be embedded in a reel logistics system and configured to accommodate individual production requirements and printshop architecture. At the highest level of automation the new reels are offloaded from the delivery trucks, conveyed to the store, prepared for splicing and loaded onto the reelstand, and the expired reels removed, all with virtually no manual intervention. SOLUTION PROVIDERS. Lifting the printing industry. ABB - Printing Industry. IRB 6660 for press tending - Robots (Robotics) The main goal of IRB 6660 is to provide a faster robotics solution within the press tending application.
Concerning part transferring operations, it’s very important to reduce press occupation time. RobotWorkx. Robot Press Tending. Kuka. Motoman. Robots Handling Bundles of Printed Documents. Robot palletizing system meets or exceeds project goals and objectives.
Customer currently has multiple identical systems installed and more planned. For every product type, robot palletizing system meets or beats required cycle time. System palletizes logs and performs any necessary slip sheet and pallet handling in 25 seconds, which is 7 seconds (nearly 22 percent) faster than the required 32-second cycle time. Highly flexible robot solution palletizes signature lengths ranging from 20-32 inches into more than 30 different pallet pattern configurations (six times more patterns than the five initially required). Project Challenges Provide a robotic material handling system that can palletize bundled logs of book signatures onto two different sizes of pallets and place slip sheets between layers, as needed. Motoman Robotics Solution. FANUC. Industrial. Fanuc. Paper and Printing Robots - FANUC Robotics. KUKA. KUKA Industrial Robots - Printing, paper.
The significance of the paper and printing industry for business and society is enormous, irrespective of its share of the economy: as both an information and advertising medium, the printed word still maintains the lion’s share of the information and advertising market, despite the increasing importance of electronic media.
Despite continuing sales growth and the importance of this industry in the opinion-forming and media sectors, automation potential for the coming decades in the manufacturing processes of this branch of industry is already largely exhausted. KUKA Industrial Robots - KUKA Roboter gets into print. Düsseldorf/Augsburg, April 2012 – KUKA Roboter GmbH will be making its first appearance at drupa, which is taking place from 3 to 16 May 2012 in Düsseldorf.
KUKA has chosen the world’s largest trade fair for print media to present itself as a printing industry specialist and logistics expert with a new palletizing robot from the KR QUANTEC series. In the innovation park, Booth C 19 in Hall 7, visitors to the trade fair can find out how industrial robots are capable of accelerating printing processes. Industrial robots are an ideal tool for speeding up processes in the printing and paper industry. Manroland web systems GmbH - AUROSYS. AUROSYS really gets going with heavy loads. The system accelerates materials logistics in web offset printing companies from the trucks to the press. AUROSYS is the tailor-made logistics solution.
Today’s industrial printing production is impossible without optimized materials flow. Yet every printing company is unique when it comes to size and order structure. Kiva. eGemin. Automatic guided vehicle systems are fully automatic transport systems using unmanned vehicles. AGVs safely transport all kinds of products without human intervention within production, logistic, warehouse and distribution environments: the clear way to reduce costs and to increase efficiency and profitability. Egemin’s AGV systems consist of reliable off-the-shelf components. However, we always tailor our AGVs to meet your requirements.
Automatic guided vehicles lift, rotate and shift your goods, fetch loads from racks, store products in deep lanes, transport product across long distances, deliver them onto conveyors, etc. Discover whether an AGV system is a good solution for your environment. Handling Units and Production Logistics - egemin Automation designs and integrates logistic automation solutions. The LTV series (Load Transfer Vehicle) include AGVs that are designed to move loads at high throughput between workstations in a production environment or between the warehouse and production. These automated guided vehicles carry one, two or four loads at a time and interface with conveyors, stands, end-of-line equipment (palletisers, wrappers, robots) and automatic warehouse equipment (stacker cranes). Egemin en Emsys houden AGV-seminar. Www.rocla.com.
AGV – Automatisch Gestuurde Voertuigen van Rocla. Over Frog AGV Systems.