Traditionally, airplane manufacturing has been difficult to automate, due to factors such as tight tolerances and stringent quality demands. However, a new breed of robots enhanced with artificial intelligence technology promises to change that scenario.
An October 2023 Medius survey found that 69 percent of U.S. manufacturers have started to reshore and 93 percent plan to increase their pace of reshoring. To make that happen, we need a much larger and stronger skilled workforce.
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a safety check technique that can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a robot’s trajectory will remain collision-free.
Yamaha Motor Co.’s flagship factory here is using state-of-the-art automated guided vehicles (AGVs) that address the challenges of assembling motorcycles in a high-mix, low-volume environment.
Heron Intelligent Equipment Co. Ltd. of Danville, IN, is a leading manufacturer of CD welding equipment. Among the company’s latest models is the DR-35000J.
