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by Madi Jacobs | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog
What do investors think about the use of collaborative robots in factory automation? Focus Investment Banking asserts that machine shops demonstrating smart use of automation attract more attention and higher valuations. From the article: Robotic automation is no...
by Madi Jacobs | Feb 16, 2023 | Blog
The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Principal Economist Christopher Chidzik recently called metrology “automation’s unsung hero.” We couldn’t agree more! Chidzik writes: As manufacturers lean more and more into automation, the...
by Madi Jacobs | Jan 24, 2023 | Blog
What an amazing year 2022 turned out to be! We made the most of our ability to travel and meet manufacturing teams around the country. Whether touring their machine shops to help them identify automation opportunities, demonstrating our automated gauging systems at...
by Stefan Friedrich | Oct 18, 2022 | Blog
In a recent NTMA survey, of those responding 65% said they had not purchased any automation equipment in the first six months of this year and 58% say they do not plan to purchase any over the next six months. While those numbers surprise me somewhat, they could mean...
by Madi Jacobs | Sep 27, 2022 | Blog
“Gage with each grab. New Scale Robotics integrates calipers into robot grippers, making measurement a seamless element of part handling.” – Modern Machine Shop At New Scale Robotics, we love meeting with manufacturers who have adopted collaborative...
by Madi Jacobs | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog
Different instruments (and different operators) are prone to different errors. Automation eliminates many of these errors. In a Modern Machine Shop article, “Understanding Errors in Hand-Held Measuring Instruments,” Metrologist Richard Clark presents some...
