At first glance, the A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition might look like just another frivolous exercise by MBA students with nothing better to do. It isn't.
When most people think of industrial robots, they don't think of SCARA or Cartesian robots. They think of long, tall six-axis robots performing spot welds on car bodies.
In addition to the outsourcing of jobs, the United States is beginning to experience an exodus of its creative business and academic talent, according to an article in the bimonthly magazine of the global, not-for-profit research group The Conference Board.
A new class of robots has been inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame, an institution that honors both real and fictional robots and their creators in recognition of the increasing benefits robots are bringing to society.
If a trade show is any indicator for an industry, the activity at the recent Assembly Technology Expo (ATExpo) should bode well for the country's manufacturing sector.
Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) manufactures electric motors, drives and generators. Central to this process is building coils for its products. In its commercial motor line, cycle times for winding stator assemblies were up to a full day and required time-consuming manual labor at a number of steps.
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