Automation Keys Productivity at Toothbrush Factory

July 8, 2013

IOWA CITY, IA—Automation enables the Oral-B assembly plant here to produce 1 million toothbrushes daily. MORE

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May 28, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Fast Collaborative Robot Deployment

Automation has become easier than ever with collaborative robots. No longer do you need to be a degreed engineer to program robots to handle assembly, screw driving, welding, sanding or inspection tasks. Cobots are user friendly, easy to program and flexible enough to be moved to different areas of your facility.

June 3, 2020

Flexibility and Scalability: How Software Advances Are Simplifying Machine Vision Applications

Machine vision is becoming more of the rule than the exception for plant floor automation. For faster and easier adoption, vision software needs to become more standardized and scalable like many other automation devices.

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Supply Chain

The coronavirus epidemic has begun to disrupt the global manufacturing supply chain for a number of OEMs, including Airbus, Hyundai and Tesla. How resilient is your supply chain network?

Moderately resilient: We have good visibility to the supply network. It’s hard to justify investments to modify our supply chain footprint. We focus more on managing disruptions once they occur.

Highly resilient: We have good visibility to the supply network. We view flexibility and resilience as necessary investments. We can shift sourcing, manufacturing or distribution within our network fairly rapidly.

Not resilient: We are dependent on our existing sourcing, manufacturing and distribution footprint. We must find other ways to compensate for changing conditions. We have yet to invest in analytics to support network decision making.

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