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Increasingly robots and autonomous vehicles are working alongside operators. But what about the standards? What is to be expected in this field? Want to know which standards affect you?

Sonoco aimed to enhance quality control in its production of tubular food packaging by investigating automation options. This study resulted in a preliminary trial using a robot.

What keeps companies awake at night when it comes to the automation of finishing processes such as sanding, deburring and polishing? That’s what we want to know, which is why we created a survey within the COBOTASSIST programme to gather input from experts, professionals and stakeholders in ...

In a world where technology is evolving at a frenetic pace, the agrifood industry is not staying put. Sirris, an innovation driver, is launching a series of participatory workshops within the “Industry of the Future” project FM4.0. These workshops, focused on the avant-garde themes of cobotics ...

More and more suppliers are offering an online service for 3D printing, sheet metal working, machining, injection moulding, electronics and various other customised production processes. These suppliers include 247TailorSteel, which specialises in custom-cut metal plates, tubes and edge parts, and ...

The Hassal foundry was looking at using automation for sanding away burrs and the remains of runners and risers on castings - a dirty, dangerous and repetitive job. Although automating this work comes with some challenges, it was thought that these could be met by using a cobot. The company, working ...

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) present a large potential when it comes to automating logistic movements on the production floor. However, how can a company assess whether automation is a good idea and how it can be optimally deployed? Sirris has developed a tool which supports companies wishing to ...

The business model has been around for some time and is now on its way to definitively and radically changing the nature of supplier competition: Manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS). New players with online services, extensive digitisation and a bundling of production capacity are moving into the ...