by Pat Klingberg | Jul 23, 2020 | Vision Systems
Over the last five years, deploying machine vision on the factory floor has become extremely easy. The big six machine vision suppliers have made their software easy to learn, easy to use, and can perform tasks better and faster than ever before. Just ask them. So why...
by Pat Klingberg | Jul 16, 2020 | Code Reading, Microscan, PLCHMI, RockwellAllenBradley, Teledyne Dalsa, Vision Systems
Product tracking and tracing is the process of determining the current and past locations of a unique item. The reasons for tracking a product may be for self-knowledge (i.e., process improvement, inventory management, customer service, etc.) or regulatory (i.e.,...
by SeanGately | Oct 24, 2016 | ABB, Robotics, RockwellAllenBradley, Services, Vendor
Application: Our customer makes presses; for this project the press they designed was for large plastic mats. They needed a robot to tend the forming press and the cooling press and the palletizer. Solution: Global Controls designed a custom gripper that could hold...
by SeanGately | Oct 24, 2016 | ABB, Omron, Robotics, RockwellAllenBradley, Services, Vendor, Wago
Application: Our customer is a leader in producing flow control valves for shot peening applications. In order to calibrate and verify their valves, they must run material through the valves and measure the amount of material that passed through them. Some of the...
by SeanGately | Oct 24, 2016 | ABB, Robotics
Our customer has a press for stamping metal disks. They previously hand loaded the press and wanted to integrate a robot to take over this task. The robot would also need to be moveable so that the press could be serviced. Solution: The customer had procured an...
